Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska has become quite a popular guy in the past couple of years. First, he had a tantrum when fellow senators tried to block his $500 million pork project as part of a federal transporation bill. The money would have built a bridge named after Stevens. The bridge connected mainland Alaska to an island populated by a few dozen people.

Most recently, Ted Stevens attempted to explain how the internet works to the rest of the Senate. The speech was part of his effort to allow telecom companies to create special fees for websites that want their service to remain the same. Anyone who didn’t pay would be put on a lower “tier” of the internet, meaning the telecoms would use their machines to intentionally make those sites run slower.

Senator Stevens, showing his devine wisdom, explained that the internet is not a dump truck, it’s a bunch of tubes. He also claimed that the internet tubes were getting so clogged that an email he sent took over a day to be delivered. He claimed that the email was delayed by one of these clogs.

This blog will focus on many more topics than just the Ted Stevens Bridge or Net Neutrality. The fact is, Ted Stevens does something just about every day that will outrage most Americans. He’ll also get re-elected as many times as he wants, because Alaskans have very few taxes and receive huge benefits from the oil companies, even if they don’t work for them. Basically, the oil companies pay off Alaskans so they don’t make a fuss about the environmental damage… and to keep their friend Ted Stevens in power.

Coming Soon… The Ted Stevens video collection