For those interested in knowing why this is happening I present to you the following information and you can take from it what you will.

They’re all actually Strom Thurmond. He never died. Just kept sloughing off bits of himself to create new senators.

Interesting.

Actually what happens is that, if the Senators and Telcos win, then your tax monies actually end up going to the big businesses because they get MORE subsidies for minimal effort and even further reduce the incentive to innovate or keep up with the rest of the world.

I’d rather my taxes go to someone streaming 4K…

“we are aware of few applications that require download speeds of 25 Mbps.”

Why would they provide you more than the bare minimum to meet the “broadband” requirement. My guess is you aren’t in rural Mississippi or Kentucky and can easily get speeds in upwards of 300 mb/s if you are willing to pay for it. Most of these areas don’t even have speeds 1/10 of that even if you are willing to pay…

Yes, so now six Republican senators are annoyed that their government isn’t giving more corporate welfare to telcos. What a surprise.

It would be more accurate to say that they want to slow down the growth of the Internet, as they are trying to reverse an update to the definition of broadband that was meant to spur ISPs into upgrading their networks.

we’ve officially surrendered to the term “hoverboard” as synonymous with “two-wheeled self-balancing scooter.”

BA English Literature magna cum laude, Harvard College 1971 and after all this time, the only value you’ve gotten out of it is bragging about it on Gawker in 2016.

Dick Cheney shot a white, rich Republican, in the face, and then the guy he shot APOLOGIZED TO CHENEY for how awful Cheney must have felt about it.

The sad part is he may be right.

What, is Putin giving him campaign tips or something? This is crazed dictator talk.

Joke’s on them. Deadspin triumphs.

I love when people get angry about the Reply All—it’s always the oldest, dumbest people who obviously were so excited about an email and then so angry to realize it wasn’t really to them.

My scalp has a vastly different temperature than my liver or my big, hairy cajones. Yet my overall average temperature is quite stable. You could plot it on that graph of yours and it would look almost like a perfect flat little line. And yet if it deviates almost imperceptibly from that line, I’m having a bad day. If…

Assuming it were within the government’s power to do so, wouldn’t it require a whole bunch of those spooky regulations and government meddling you hear so much about?

Well, Trump would just tell ‘em. Ya know.

Those are small-government kinds of regulations, like the huge wall.

Hey look! It’s the half a billion dollars we spent to train those five resistance fighters! I knew it was squirreled away somewhere ;-)