Web Slowing Down: Another Fascist Dirty Trick?

The last four to six weeks have been a consistent experience of frustration and maddening delays.

At first I thought it was because of my connection at home, or another of Microsoft's attempts at punishing those of us who weren't drinking the KoolAid for Vista.

Then I got a new laptop that used Vista.  The delays got worse.

Then I noticed the same problems at work.  All my favorite sites...slow as molasses in January.  Noticeably slow.  That has never happened before.  We have a screaming trunk in the defense industry I work in.

Have you been experiencing this phenomenon on the web, or am I just being paranoid?

Are we getting hosed just in time to watch these bastards steal ANOTHER election???

C'mon, folks.  We can't let them do this to us AGAIN.  We can't afford it.