Beck responds to mother complaining about lack of broadband access: She "may" need "a boot in the ass"

I have an acquaintance stuck in their own teenage years. He thinks that they shouldn't have to talk on their cell phones very much at all, and thinks that they shouldn't have to get on the computer much in the evening either. I tried to explain that the computer and the cell phone are similar to what people his age did with the second phone line that his parents set up so that he and his siblings could fight over that phone access.

But he's a righty so the additional info never penetrated his brain, and he remained convinced that he was right that his kids don't need to use the cell phones in the evening at all and they all share one old PC and fight all the time over the limited time they can get. And he makes a good 6 figure salary, so he could afford to get every kid a PC of their own.

I've ordered mini's for his two oldest kids, and I'm just going to give them to the kids, since he's so stupid and is so mired in his black and white thinking.

Agreed, it's always about him anyway.

The GOP/FOX holds out the same carrot to the "Republicans poor," if this A-hole can make it big time so can you, all of you, just vote this way. See Joe the Plumber . . .if you are not rich you are a loser like "those" people. No happy medium.

China's broadband capacity is growing incredibly, there are yurts in the Gobi Desert with high speed connections

There is something deliciously poetic about how Beck -- an entertainer who sells the standard package of religio-economic 'good news' that the private market will always reward good works with success and punish bad works with failure -- has scared off every major advertiser. While singing the praises of the market, he's turning out to be a loss-leader (at best) for FNC. He certainly attracts viewers, and it's entirely possible that this translates into revenue for the network as a whole, but the advertising revenue for his show cannot possibly be living up to expectations. In the UK, Beck's show has run for the last two months without a single advertisement. Not one.

Even Beck's most faithful supporters must be starting to understand that the force keeping Beck on the air isn't classical supply and demand. Of course there's a demand for Beck's show: plenty of people like to watch an hour of crazy. But there's much less demand among major advertisers for the people who like to watch an hour of crazy. The only advertisers who are interested in helping to offset the costs of paying Beck, his staff, and of producing and marketing Beck's show, are the advertisers who are themselves looking to make a quick buck off the poor and gullible: male enhancement pills, dubious homeopathic potions, gold shills, companies that charge customers for things that they can get for free (like credit reports), etc... In other words, these advertisers embody precisely the kind of huckster capitalism that, according to Beck's position, shouldn't exist if unregulated markets really do encourage meritocracy and police themselves.