Funny, but it only seems to be a problem in the 'angry' south of the country. Always interesting how quickly the self-appointed frequency police leap onto 121.5 to yell "You're on guard!" when their primary task ought to be monitoring their assigned ATC frequency, especially in and around the busiest airspace in the country. Monitoring 121.5 should be a very low low priority task in relation to operating your own a/c safely.