Two people deserve Nobel Prizes. The person who invented the mute button. And the person who originally situated the mute button on the steering wheel. Eighty percent of the talk from car radio has the power to turn a normally intelligent person of average common sense into a raving lunatic. DJs ramble on about nothing, using grammar that proves the absolute demise of the education system. Media noise is like a perpetual avalanche. Everywhere you turn. In the gym, the restaurant, the hospital room, the car, the plane. Talking heads talking, talking. Telling you the same thing every half hour, repeating, repeating. Letting you know everything bad happening to everyone everywhere in the world. The avalanche is a roar. And then you remember you have an option. All you need is a thumb. And the button. Ahhhh.