Geek Chic

I know we’ve all heard the audio clip from our dearly indicted Senator Ted Stevens where he refers to the Internet as a series of tubes.  But until today I hadn’t heard the entire clip.

Wow.

First of all, I have absolutely no idea what point he’s trying to argue — his thesis is totally lost in all of his elderly technophobic blubbering.  Maybe it’s some anti-spam Senate bill?  Dunno.

It’s similar to what I imagine would happen if I sat my grandparents down and said to them ‘explain to me how you think the internet works and what you think you can do with it.’

This is who runs the federal government. A bunch of rich white guys who are too busy having their decks rebuilt by oil companies to take time to figure out how the internet works.

Good to know that, in the true spirit of America, it’s much more important to have a strong opinion when it comes to technology rahther than have any facts.