1 Stephen,
On "public" roads, do you think the state has a right to control access and usage? If you feel that cell phone use should be protected, do you also feel that drunk driving should be legal?

To me, I consider this to be a legitimate law, although I don't know if cell phones are dangerous enough to be worth regulating (although some studies say driving with a cell phone is worse than drunk driving, a study somewhere will show whatever you want it to). On a road, you're driving a 3000-lb death missile. Just like we don't allow people to wantonly fire guns up in the air to celebrate like in the middle east, as it creates a serious danger for whoever those bullets might fall on, we have rules in place for driving on public roads. Behavior that creates a high level of danger for those around you may need to be restricted (at least on public roads, if you want to drive drunk, talking on your cell phone, at 90 mph on private roads, that's your prerogative).

2 Apparently that came off a little more serious than intended. I'm mostly just annoyed that I had to spend the money on a hands-free thing. They are forcing me to spend money I don't want to spend for an item I don't want or need. So I took the only protest action left open to me and ordered it online so the state didn't get its 6% sales tax!

3 No worries... I just watch too many people who suddenly cease to realize they're behind the wheel of a motor vehicle once that phone rings. And as a former motorcyclist, that scares me quite a bit...