{"id":935,"date":"2006-08-02T19:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T19:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/astrologicalmusings\/2006\/08\/dj-ted-stevens-and-the-series.html"},"modified":"2006-08-02T19:13:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T19:13:00","slug":"dj-ted-stevens-and-the-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/astrologicalmusings\/2006\/08\/dj-ted-stevens-and-the-series.html","title":{"rendered":"DJ Ted Stevens and the Series of Tubes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I don’t know how this ties into astrology, except perhaps that with Uranus retrograde our understanding of the internet may be going backwards as witnessed by the speech on the issue of net neutrality, which included brilliant statements like this one: “I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o\u2019clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday,” and “[T]he internet is not something you just dump something on. It\u2019s not a truck. It\u2019s a series of tubes.”<\/em>
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Thanks to Jill at Brilliant at Breakfast<\/a> for linking to this incredibly hilarious piece of video <\/a>– sit down and watch the whole thing, it is the funniest piece ever, unless you stop to think that Ted Stevens, from whose brilliant words <\/a>this piece derives, is head of the Senate Commerce Committee that is in charge of regulating (or trying to regulate) the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know how this ties into astrology, except perhaps that with Uranus retrograde our understanding of the internet may be going backwards as witnessed by the speech on the issue of net neutrality, which included brilliant statements like this one: “I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"yoast_head":"\nDJ Ted Stevens and the Series of Tubes - Astrological Musings<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/astrologicalmusings\/2006\/08\/dj-ted-stevens-and-the-series.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DJ Ted Stevens and the Series of Tubes - 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