[davetex]

My Spanish is not very good, but somebody help me out here. Does El Vergatario mean what I think it means? I only know enough to start a fight, and I think that might be one of the words that would do it.

[kalee]

Yes, it does. Rush talked about this today.

[JoeProBono]

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez this month will launch a $15 mobile phone complete with a camera, WAP internet access, an FM radio and MP3 and MP4 players. The phone is called the Vergatario, which is derived from a slang word for "penis."

[mylife]

LoL! “Stick this in your ear”

[livius]

I only know enough to start a fight, and I think that might be one of the words that would do it.

LOL! Yes, that's one of the words. Maybe it's Hugo's cute little way of saying eff you to the world, the eeevvvil capitalists, and, of course, his fellow Venezuelans.

As Rush pointed out today, it's a dictator's dream machine: knock out the competition by selling an ultra-cheap phone, have everybody on that network, and you have a lovely stream of conversations you can listen in on any time you feel like it. Without even the pretense of a legal order, the state can also examine the numbers people call and their patterns of calling and traveling. Pretty neat, huh?