Whither The Fool?

Just a tidbit of local interest:

Time-Warner is turning over the operation of its cable television and ISP services in Houston to its former partner, Comcast.

Dwight Silverman has tons of current info on his blog at Chron.Com.

I have two questions:

1) Is this going to help improve cable-modem Internet connectivity? We have been struggling for at least three months now with frequent outages with extended downtime - once for an entire week.

2) How does this affect those of us who have Earthlink as their ISP of record, for which Time-Warner has been handling the infrastructure?

Can you imagine a series of newsreels in the 1940s titled “Why We Ought To Get Serious About This Fight”?

In World War II there was no talk of a “cease-fire” with Japan, or of a “buffer zone” between Japan and China.  No one thought it made sense to merely “disarm” or “degrade” the Wehrmacht, or to just push Hitler back into Germany where his “political arm” – the National Socialists, otherwise known as the Nazis – could continue to pursue its domestic programs in the Reichstag.  And no one who suggested that the fire-bombing of Dresden or the D-Day invasion were a “disproportionate response” to Hitler’s invasion of Poland – or that dropping two atom bombs on Japan was a “disproportionate” response to Pearl Harbor—was taken seriously by the men who led us to victory in World War II.

Read the entire pithy article at The American Thinker.

(N.B. Why is it that folks like Herbert Meyer sport bios that read in the past tense, while all the current policy-makers have their heads up their arses?)

(Obligatory OTB linker).