TC the Terrible

From a t-shirt on a grad student:

“Use the passive voice and no one gets hurt.”

And from Terry in BFE, Arkansas:

What part of fuck off, drop dead, go to Hell, you are not getting a Christmas card this year did you not understand?

No, I’m not killing the blog.  I bet that really breaks your heart.  I’m being transferred to another division in just over a month and I’m starting to hand off my projects and responsibilities.  Kind of a weird feeling to watch NEW GUY doing the things that I’m used to taking care of.  Not that he’s doing a bad job (at least not all the time) but he’s not doing it the way I would.

• Some of the people that I do think are doing a bad job are the parents that allow teenaged girls to do whatever the hell they want.  Kids are going to rebel, and sex is a fun way to do it, but trying to look like a slut is wrong on lots of levels. This is why so many schools now have uniforms.
• The CORPORATE SATAN is at it again.  Now they are repressing workers by forcing them to take sub-standard health care.  I guess they’ve fucked over the little guy every other way they can and now it’s time to put the nails in the coffin. 
• BadGolfer is doing a good job chronicling how easy it is to be a bad golfer.  He must have been inspired by watching me play.  It’s been nearly three months since I took my clubs out of the garage.  I’ve got to find the time to go hit a few buckets before I switch jobs.
• With all the racial tension I’m surprised Memphis is only 8^th on the list of angry cities. 
• One of the best daily read blogs, and source of inspiration to us all, has gone dark. Big Head Rob will be missed.

That’s it.  I’ve got to help the NEW GUY un-fuck himself for the second time this morning.  Can my new job start now?

It feels good to earn my pay for once. Even if it means I have less time to piss off people in cyber-land.  It’s been a couple of days since the last threatening e-mail so either common sense suddenly prevails across the land (NOT) or my legions of deaf readers have moved on to fresher meat.  It sucks either way because book sales are dropping off.

• Allen needs to get over himself.  As a Southern white guy playing football and living at the frat house 30 years ago he dropped the “N” bomb hundreds of times.  He might not do it today, but it was the culture he lived in back then.  Why not just admit to it and move on?  If the nation was willing to forgive W for doing blow as a thirty-something then they’ll forgive Allen for being a racist as a kid.
• Hell, people are making jokes about Oprah and her racial hiring practices.  ‘Cause you just gotta know that if it were a white guy with a all white staff that it’d be damned court case by now.  But since it’s the Big O everybody’s cool with it, and her do-do talk.  Shouldn’t black people be pissed about this?
• Nationals Train Derails Near Wilmington.  I saw that headline and thought the Post was referring to the current state of the team, not their train ride home.
• Monday night television finally has something to offer besides wrestling.  Studio 60 is going to be great once it finally hits stride.  As it stands now it’s better than anything else that the networks have got on.  Or is that my crush on Amanda Peet doing all the talking?
• And Trek geeks now have a reason to come out of Mommy’s basement.  But do any of them have enough cash to actually buy Kirk’s chair?  I don’t think so.

 Any way, there it is.