Yahoo, the most worthless site on the Internet?

 For lo these many years, I have suffered with Internet service from BellSouth/ATT. First it was dialup, then it was DSL. That was where it stopped. I live in a rural county where almost no one has anything like cable. It's DSL or dialup. You can bet your as that if Spectrum cable comes to my neighborhood, ATT can pull out their lines.

The ATT website uses Yahoo for their homepage. Yahoo purports to have news stories on this site. This site is to the left of socialism. For political news they use websites like Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, and the world's biggest liberal rag, the Huff Post. Esquire used to be about men's lifestyles, clothing, and some good pieces of fiction. Now it is just leftist political rants and badly written fiction posing as political news stories. Hell, Esquire has gone so far down the shitter that I find myself missing Norman Mailer. The Huff Post is enough for me to question why we have freedom of the press. Harper's Bazaar and Elle need to go back to whatever they did before Trump was elected. 

Since my e-mail is ATT and they use Yahoo mail to do that, Yahoo pops up whenever I turn on the computer. It may be a dead heat between Yahoo and MSN news on who has the worst news.. Microsoft is based near Seattle, so my expectations are pretty low. They are even worse than I expected. I just blocked that page rather than risk my head exploding.

Friends have suggested that I try satellite service. I already have Dish network and I am not interested in that level of service for Internet access. This is North Carolina. Snow, rain, and ice in the winter and thunderstorms in the summer all affect satellite services. I am looking for "better" service. 

The best thing about ATT is what they started their business to provide. Yes, it is telephone service. We have a "land line". Why? Because when I need the Sheriff to come check out whatever I have just put several rounds into and is now motionless in my front yard, I don't want that "out of service area" message from my cell phone. So we keep what I consider to be a real telephone. Those pocket computers can make a phone call, but that is not their prime function. My granddaughter was at our house last month and we had to explain what the telephone in the kitchen was.

I had an iPhone for four years. After retiring from abusing people for money, I ditched the iPhone and returned to a flip phone. It won't connect to the Internet, but it works better as a telephone than your iPhone. 

Last month, I went to Harbor Freight for something. I asked a cashier about the item that I was looking for that day. He told me that I could look that info up on my phone. I told him that I didn't know how to do that. He told me to give him my phone and he would show me how to do that. I put my flip phone down on the counter and said, "Show me!". He's probably still standing there with that blank look on his face. 

Call on line 1, Mr. Jones. It's long distance!