TC the Terrible

Yeah, yeah, yeah.  I’m an asshole, but ask anyone that knows me and they’ll tell you that’s one of my more endearing traits.

A couple of you have left some good, sane comments (Nikki, Rox, Passerby) and deserve a response.  But at the moment I’ve got soccer practice, softball practice and a couple of other places to be.  Check back later, and bring Ridor with you.

You know the coolest thing about the Internet?  I can get beat up verbally for having an unpopular opinion.  Yep, people are now sending me better hate mail than my ex-wife’s lawyer ever did.  I’d love to respond to each and every one of them, but damned if my job doesn’t keep me busy all day.  It amazes me how much time some people have on their hands.  But at least they keep ordering books and DVDs (really crappy ones by the way) so I’m good with it.

• Speaking of people buying crap, Wal-Mart is pushing discount drugs now.  This is a bad idea.  There is a reason that drug makers have high profit margins, it’s called research and development.  It takes years and billions of dollars to bring a new drug to the market.  If you cut the profit margin on current drugs then there’s not enough funds left to develop new medicines and cures.  Cheap drugs sound good, and on the surface looks like a splendid thing, but over the long term it harms more than it helps.
• There is nothing wrong with rich people getting richer in my opinion.  The Bush years have been better for the economy than the Clinton years so it comes as no surprise that personal wealth is on the rise.
• This place makes a damned fine hot dog, so it only makes sense that the military would want to tear it down. It must be a sign that the war on terror is going well if the brain trust of the Pentagon can be bothered with something this trivial.
• Joe Gibbs is sure getting the love this morning.  Wilbon and Snider are both making him out to be the savior of all that is football holy.  I hope they are right.  If not closed captions on the big screen could be a moot issue.
• Kids, even smart ones, have always cheated on homework.  Since the Internet makes it easy to cut and paste research papers schools need tools to guard against that technique.  These kids are only bitching because they are having to do more original work now. 

I’ve talked before about donut day here at the office.  As dumb as it may sound donut Friday is a near sacred ritual here.  If you fuck up your turn in the hopper your career will suffer, just that simple.  Needless to say that as of ten minutes ago someone’s career was spiraling down the toilet.  Good stuff.–

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TC