"You've got pink slips!"

AOL is getting ready to lay off 5000 people, or a quarter of its workforce, over the next six months.

So many lives. CBS Radio laid off about a hundred people a few weeks ago. A few months before that Clear Channel, my old company, had rounds of layoffs. Westwood One just had a round, about another hundred or so people.

Where will they go? I can tell you …