OMG, there's more of them out there, just waiting...waiting...
Just when you thought that the interwebz were awash enough with dumb yanks, it turns out that a third of the poor souls don't have broadband at home. But they shall not weep, for the US government shall provide. Although perhaps this is over-egging the pudding a tad:
The consequences of not succeeding are heartbreaking. Every nation needs a common medium to gather around and to have the internet as a common medium where a third are left out is unacceptable.
Reed Hundt, former FCC chairman
Heartbreaking for those of us who have to wade through even more of their slack-jawed detritus and half-screen animated forum signatures, perhaps. But did the FCC buy each family a TV when that was the nascent common medium?