Given Hannity's history of making such magnanimous gestures, we may want to keep an eye on him.

Hannity in 2004 hyped himself as a hero when he offered to speak at Utah Valley State College for free, to counter a speech there by liberal filmmaker Michael Moore.

What Hannity didn't share was that he had been invited earlier to speak at the school, but his $80,000 fee was too expensive for the student council.

Then, when Hannity said he would come for free, he didn't disclose that, despite Jon Huntsman Sr.'s offer to fly him out, he had to have his own special jet with his own special service and the jet had to be available to fly him to Arizona for the Republican National Convention.

That cost the school more in expenses than Moore's $40,000 fee.

You know you're in Utah: Tuning in to right-wing talk radio while sitting in her car Thursday, Souzzann Zink heard the commentator urge listeners to call the Governor's Office and tell him to sign the bill designed to thwart gay and lesbian clubs in high schools.

Zink decided to make a call, but when she told the receptionist she was calling to urge the governor to veto the bill, the receptionist acted as though that was unacceptable.

"The woman asked if I was sure that's what I wanted and asked if I had read the bill," Zink says. The woman asked a second time if Zink was sure that's what she wanted, since most people calling in wanted him to sign it.

After more discussion, the woman reluctantly promised she would record a vote for a veto.

Update the mailing list: I make so much fun of others' faux pas in the column, it's only fair that I ding The Tribune when it deserves it.

The paper wanted to make a donation to the Utah Daily Chronicle's scholarship fund to support the education and training of future journalists. So it mailed the check in care of Matt Canham, a former Chronicle editor when he was a student at the University of Utah and now a reporter for The Tribune.

The check was mailed to the old Tribune building at 143 S. Main St. But we moved from there two years ago. The check came back as undeliverable. So the second time, the check was walked over to Canham's desk and delivered to him personally.

Warning to law enforcement: With the recently passed law making it illegal to talk on cell phones or apply makeup while driving, one reader says he has noticed numerous Utah Highway Patrol troopers and Davis County sheriff's deputies typing on their laptops, sometimes with two hands, while driving.

He says he is going to start taking down license plate numbers.

p.rolly@sltrib.com