These are the times in which we live: Telemarketers have sued two federal agencies over the government's new do-not-call list. The reason? Because of the huge numbers of Americans (an estimated 60 million) who are sick of being bothered on the phone by telemarketers and have signed up to be on the list, telemarketers stand to lose as many as two million jobs when it goes into effect this fall.

Try to get your mind around this logic: telemarketers are suing because they will lose their jobs doing what their own "customers" have told them in no uncertain terms they don't want them to do. It would be as if you decide that your new job will be to dance naked in your neighbor's yard every day. Then, when he calls the police to come get you, you file suit against the police saying, "You can't do this! It's my job to dance naked in his front yard!!"