As I mentioned elsewhere yesterday, I really need to take up kickboxing or skeet shooting. Life’s frustrations can pile up and need to be vented properly. Somehow bank reconciliations and answering emails just isn’t getting ‘er done.
- Again it’s already 23:00??!! I’m getting too old for this crap.
- As with so many people, my NCAA bracket didn’t even make it until noon Pacific. Dayton put a huge hole in my bracket, Harvard kicked me while I was down, North Dakota State punished me (presumably for being from South Dakota), and this morning Mercer just flipped off every bracket on the planet.
- Fred Phelps is dead and for once I’m really, really hoping that my mother’s strict Catholic vision of Heaven is accurate. Fred vs. St. Peter is a conversation that I would pay good money to see.
- At least I’m not a Duke basketball fan.
- I whined, bitched, and spewed about how far Fry’s Electronics has fallen, and last night I felt the same sadness for CNN. Twenty years ago they were THE place to get sound, accurate, unbiased, factual news. I tried watching to get some late night updates on the missing Malaysian jet and found a panel of conspiracy theorists and assclowns who were too whacked out to give a decent opinion to the National Enquirer.
- Absolutely astonishingly, there’s still one perfect bracket left in the QuickenLoans/Yahoo billion dollar thing. But the guy’s got at least three major upsets in the next round, including SF Austin beating UCLA, so I don’t think he’s long for this world. Warren Buffett will not be losing any sleep tonight.
- You can’t watch CNN, the local news, and I’ll only watch Fox if someone has a gun to my head. Thank god for Twitter!
- The CEO of Time-Warner Cable has been on the job for six weeks and is going to get $80 million when they merge with Comcast? Words fail me.
- As for institutions that have gone into the toilet head first, don’t even get me started on The Learning Channel! Someone needs to be dipped in honey and staked to an ant hill in the sun for what’s happened over there.
- The saddest part of all with places like TLC, TWC, and CNN, as well as with the people who are running them and becoming oligarchs in the process, is that I have no doubt at all that they honestly believe that they deserve more money for six weeks of work than fifty upper-middle class families will earn in their lifetimes combined. There’s no way that thought is logical or sane, yet it seems to be commonplace in “the 1%.”
- I’m telling you, there are multiple dimensions in space and time right here on Earth today. We live in one. The 1% live in another one that only touches ours long enough to suck the life out of it.
Remember that if you violate the “do not call” list and interrupt me by illegally calling my phone in order to try to convince me that you’re with Microsoft technical support and I need to give you a credit card for a $500 charge to keep my computer running, I am under no obligation at all to be civil, polite, or to treat you like anything other than the slime you are. If I can’t go skeet shooting or kickboxing, at least I can screw with your head for kicks.
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