It was bad enough when members of Congress were twittering during President Obama's address to a joint session on Capitol Hill last month. Now, I realize Presidential addresses can drive one to distraction, but what makes these people think their distractions don't drive the rest of us to severe distraction?

Other celebrities, particularly those who are common targets of the paparazzi, have taken to twittering as a sort of pre-emptive strike, trying to get the inane developments in their lives out to their fans before the paparazzi can do it, and, presumably, distort the inanity.

Suns center Shaquille O'Neal - "THE-REAL-SHAQ" - started twittering after an imposter had been twittering as though he were the Big Cactus himself.

But this twittering reached a new level of absurdity when Milwaukee Bucks coach Scott Skiles felt compelled to outlaw twittering in the team's locker room.

This became necessary when Bucks forward Charlie Villanueva chose to "tweet", i.e. post a message to his "Twitter feed," from his team's locker room at halftime of Milwaukee's game against the defending NBA champion Boston Celtics on Sunday.

This is what Villanueva - aka "CV31" - reportedly tweeted from his mobile phone:

"In da locker room, snuck to post my twitt. We're playing the Celtics, tie ball game at da half. Coach wants more toughness. I gotta step up."

Actually, what he really needed to do was HANG up. Yeah, I know Villanueva went out and had a good second half and the Bucks knocked off the defending champs - oops, I mean, "da champs."

Villanueva, who found time to tweet while he was off the clock as well, posted this later: "The halftime twitt actually motivated me."

Really? Here's an idea. Next time - say, Wednesday night against Orlando - finish all your self-motivating twitts before you leave home for the arena. You know, be motivated when the game starts.

Even though Villanueva's in-game tweets are presumably a thing of the past, perhaps other sports figures will follow his lead.

"If u can play basketball, report to the Hornets bench." - Byron Scott.

"I'm so smart, sometimes I scare myself." - Mel Kiper Jr.

"CBS replaced me with Clark Kellogg. Now, that's March madness." - Billy Packer.

"Job wanted: QB'ing NFL team to disappointing record." - Jay Cutler.

"This is our year. No, really." - Anonymous Cubs fan.

"We're in the playoff hunt? Seriously?" - Mike D'Antoni.

"Note to self: Twitter from the huddle during Bills opener next season." - Terrell Owens.

Now back to CV31. Apparently he was surprised at how much attention he was receiving for playing on his cell phone in the middle of a game.

Allen Iverson once famously said, "we're talking about PRACTICE."

As the Bucks were practicing for their next game, Villanueva said, "We're talking about Twitter here. We should be worried about Orlando."

Hey, Charlie, that's the whole point.

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written by Psycho, March 19, 2009

Technology is getting totally out of hand. All teamsw should ban this stuff from their facilities when it is practice time or game time.

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written by Baller, March 18, 2009

Don't you think Villenueva should be suspended? He makes a joke of the game and his coach.

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