In which I agree with Michael Bloomberg

The New York city council is fighting back against Mayor Bloomberg's ban on mobile phones in public schools by passing a resolution that gives children the explicit right to carry them to and from school.

According to the council's Speaker Christine Quinn:

"We recognize that those cell phones should not be on in school or during the school day...but they need to have them to and from, and we believe the Department of Education has to go out and figure out a way to make that happen." (Emphasis mine.)

What an absurd argument. How did my and preceding (and I am afraid succeeding) generations ever survive without them? It is probably a good thing I haven't any kids because you can be damn sure that they wouldn't have a mobile at the age of ten or twelve.