This audio clip is either the ramblings of some paranoid guy in need of a psych eval or...

.....outtakes from Howard Beale's rants in "Network" or......

.....Senator Ted Stevens explaining the internet.....not sure which.

(audio clip here) As noted, it's at the very end where the guy "jumps the shark".

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I know, I know, Senator Stevens of Alaska has gotten a lot of airtime and blog space with his rambling eleven minute discourse at a hearing in Washington recently on how exactly he thinks the internet(s) work. Very funny stuff, most especially at the end, and certainly the Senator, who is in his 80's and moved to Alaska to practice law BEFORE IT WAS EVEN A STATE, needs to retire right now so that someone versed in, well, anything that's happened since the advent of color television can weigh in during Senate hearings, votes, and such meaningful type stuff.

Here are some highlights from Senator Stevens long and.....well, long career of public service:

1) Born in 1923 in Indianapolis

2) During WWII flew with the famous "Flying Tigers" in Asia

3) Attended UCLA and Harvard Law

4) Moved to Alaska in the 50's, when it was still a territory of the US

5) Has been a Senator since '68

And his 2 most noteworthy "accomplishments" in recent years, prior to the "series of tubes" speech:

6) Decided NOT to swear in the oil executives who were called before the Senate committee investigating VP Cheney's energy task force, thus allowing the exec's to lie and not face perjury charges (the fix was in)

7) The master of bringing taxpayers bucks home to his lightly populated home state, Senator Stevens most famous pork escapade was siphoning over $230m from Treasury coffers to build the infamous Gravina Island Bridge...aka "The Bridge to Nowhere". The island has 50 inhabitants, none of which are believed to have cars. Senator Stevens loudly and brazenly threatened to resign when, post Hurricane Katrina, the question arose as to whether the people of New Orleans deserved some of these funds, rather than the 50 inhabitants of Gravina Island. Stevens kept his bridge money.

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