waiting and seeing

As I feared at the end of my last post, I have indeed exhausted all I know on the subject of poles, or indeed of electricity.  Although I like science and math electricity has always eluded me, volts, amps, ohms, those funny diagrams with the jiggy lines, all a mystery to Ken. 

Now that I think about it, now that almost everybody (except ,me, I still have a landline in addition to my cell) is abandoning their landlines what has become of all those ahem, lines?  Are they still hanging from the poles?  Have they been repurposed?  Are they just hanging, not doing anything special, just hanging around?  And what of those poles, who puts them up, phone companies, electric companies, both?  Once a post goes up is it there for anybody who needs a pole to just attach their stuff to it?  Do they pay whoever erected the pole for the privilege?  Is this all regulated somehow?

A quick jaunt on the google machine revealed that some states regulate their poles (it seems utility poles is a better term than telephone poles so I will use that in the future) and some don't, and some are trying to and the FCC is involved somehow and it just appears to be a mess.

Submitting the term utility pole to wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_pole yields a lot of information which I will peruse at my leisure.


Even now I don't like impeachment, not that I am against it in principle, but I just don't think it will work because I don't think that there are twenty republican senators who will go along with it.  It seems that one of the motivating factors is doing the right thing.  A crime is obvious and to let it go with inaction is well, the wrong thing.  I take a more pragmatic view in that the consequences of the action are more important than, well, right or wrong.  But I think that some of the pro-impeachment people think that as the movement gains momentum more shit will come out, and likely Trump will do and say more unsavory things until the stomachs of the citizenry are turned, and some twenty republican senators, seeing that the polls have changed, and fearing for their seats, will develop spines and vote to throw the bum out.

I am just not sure at all that that will happen.  Well I guess we will have to wait and see.