Promising everything to everyone

Candidate (oops, I mean Mayor) Jim Hahn is holding a press conference at Hollywood and Highland tomorrow morning to "announce his plan to end all dropped cellular phone calls and create a WiFi hotspot throughout the City of Los Angeles." (emphasis added) Yeah, we'll see how that goes. By the way, twice in the past week I have made use of the free wireless hotspot that is the Central Library. Works great, even in the History department on the very bottom level. Just have to ignore the snoring homeless guys.

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