Wry On The Rocks

The quote of the week has to be from Harvard senior Jim Crossen, from Davenport, Iowa.  ”No one ever told me I was poor until I got to Harvard!”

A new government study confirms what most of us already knew; cellphone usage is out-pacing landlines in U.S. household.  20% of all U.S. households have no landline at all…only a cell phone…while only 17% of households have a landline and no cellphone.  This is most prevelant among persons age 25 to 29; the study found that 40% of this age group only use cellphones.

Here’s the part I don’t understand…the study was undertaken by the Center for Disease Control.  With the threat of a worldwide pandemic brought on by Swine Flu, the CDC is doing phone studies?  I don’t care how many phones the 25 to 29 year-olds have, I want important stuff, like how many pigs have used a phone in the last 30 days! Or how long should I wait to use a phone after eating pork! So, I say back to the clipboards CDC and give me something I can use.

Just when I thought the Globe had forgotten all about Tom Brady, he’s back in full force.  He’s once again the center-fold in the Names section of the Globe…and once again, yep,  publicly canoodling with Gisele what’s-her-name.  You should note  that it appears in the same issue as the announcement that the Globe will not be shut down as previously threatened by the New York Times.  Coincidence??  Not really.  Apparently, Mark Shanahan & Meredith Goldstein, editors of Names, have been promised the sought after life-time employment if they feature Tom ”the canoodler” Brady at least once a week.