TC the Terrible

It’s not really news that I have no heart.  SDSM thinks I am the first person ever to survive a live birth without one.  I tell her they substituted an oil pump for my heart.  She believes me.

The reason I bring this up is that AOL is getting ready to ditch 25% of their employees and all I can think is that they deserve it.  AOL has been bringing the suck to America’s computers for way too long now.  This is just corporate karma coming back on them.
I feel pretty much the same way about Ford having to issue another major recall. If they had ditched the damned union workers back in the 1970s when they had the chance the company might be turning a profit now.  Instead they are suffering from poorly made cars (can’t fire union workers for not building them right) and an over burdened retirement system.

Sort of serves them right.

Let’s call today’s edition the common sense edition. Because most of this seems like it would be common sense to the average six year old.

· Switching agents in a housing market going flat isn’t really the answer. If your house is not getting the kind of interest you want then the only real solution is to adjust the price – downward. If you can’t take less and get out, then you need to sit tight for a while. Hell, if I can have a home here and one back in THE OLD COUNTRY, it should be a no-brainer for the rest of you too.

· It is not ok to push your kids to be perfect. At least that’s what the kiddie shrinks are saying now. Personally, I think kids not being pushed is just a big of a problem as it leads to them not leaving the house until they are 30 years old. Give them the right amount of push and they will respond by becoming motivated and successful adults.

· The fact that cell phones have more germs than toilet seats is pretty irrelevant. No body puts their face that close to the seat unless they are puking, so what’s the big deal? The first person to market sanitary wipes for cell phones is going to make a fortune.

· When a coach is praising his new quarterback this early in the year avoid taking him for your fantasy team. Just saying.

· Yeah the ‘Skins take cast off players and turn them into a solid defense. But seldom does the defense score points and you have to score points to win games. And old quarterbacks seldom last a full season.

· If you don’t have enough money to start with, then go fight a war for five years your budget is going to be fucked. That’s according to LTG Blum of the National Guard. He didn’t say it quite that way, but the modern media frowns on soldiers talking like soldiers, so he had to be polite about it.

· The Senate is trying to help the National Guard save some cash. They voted to build a fence on the Mexican border, which should be cheaper than having soldiers there until infinity and beyond. I wonder if the contractor will hire Mexican day laborers to build the damned thing.

· Everybody hates Wal-Mart. Well, everybody that can afford to shop at Target does.

Use some of the above at the water cooler today and watch the reactions of your co-workers. You’ll see that a little common sense doesn’t go as far now as it did for Thomas Payne. Of course your mileage may vary.