Let Them Eat Cake

So contrary to what they said earlier, now the WSJ says the Bush Gang is actively opposing universal broadband access. The head of the FCC, which used to regulate the airwaves “for the common good”, now sneers that creating an equal playing field is socialization. Ah Powell the Younger, such a disagreeable, bureaucratic apparatchik. Is his callousness just a developed, intellectualised form of black-on-black violence?

The fact that his Daddy, the Uranium Bomber and My Lai Apologist Colin Powell the Elder, a director of AOL who owns many millions of dollars of AOL stock, resigned the AOL board the day before the vote to merge with TimeWarner went through, didn’t stop Powell the Younger from voting to approve the merger, claiming there was no conflict of interest, shouldn’t surprise anybody.