Whip it! Whip it good!

Sometimes they just speak for themselves. On behalf of all the people who AREN'T as stupid or pushy or idelogic or whatever the hell she thought her "innocent mistake" was proving, WHIP HER!!!!

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/11/27/sudan.bears/?iref=mpstoryview

Would you like some fries with that Columbine masscare?

Oh, dear God. Forgive them, Father, for they are far too stupid for other treatment. It would be like condemning cows.

http://news8austin.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=195372

Money quote #1:
"Normally when a campus is in lockdown nobody is moving. Everybody is staying put. No one is wandering the halls. There is no going to and from places,"

Really? On SWAT lockdown? No movement? Really. And let me guess? You have to explain this to the "parents?" And they bitch, don't they? Presumably these are the same parents who would be bitching if their ill-behaved, under-educated, pregnant, obese, under-achieving kids were massacred, at, say Columbine, where there was no lockdown. For obvious reasons.

Money quote #2:
"Some of these kids. This is the only meal they get when they come here until the next day."

Wow, Betty. Now that is a revelation. Sucks to be these kids. Perhaps that's because the parents are spending what little money they have on drugs, alcohol and hookers? Just a fuckin' thought, because, I'll tell you what, there are resources in this country that a child does not have to go hungry with only his slice of pizza from school to eat all day. Trust me. I pay for the stupid programs.

There should be a license to be a parent.

Death and taxes. No. Football. What was I saying.

Sometimes you don't even have to write anything.

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/7426438?MSNHPHCP>1=10637

My heart goes out to you, kiddo. You did the right thing, Troy.

If there are any Vikings fans out there (yes, I'm talking to you 3 guys), organize a boycott of a few home games, would ya?

The wonderful thing about Eisner...

Wow. I really need a second line to that, but given the esteemed Eisner's career, there's just not a whole lot I can say about the man other than the fact that he's not Pervez Musharraf...

http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/07/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xlix-eisner-tells-striking-writers-to/

Thanks to Engadget for pointing this one out. Fake Steve is going to have a helluva time with this one. Real Steve, too, probably.

As a guy who went to college for writing (as is so clearly evident in my brilliant prose, here), and who later realized that you have to give your heart, soul, and, more importantly, your creative rights over to these hacks who run the "business of writing," I do just have to say, "FUCK YOU, MICHAEL!"

Now, I also have to say, slightly softer, "fuck you, WGA." You are a union that rides on the back of your writers' good work. Once, you were useful, but like most unions, you have used your dues and your power for your own aggrandizement instead of furthering the needs of your members. You ought to relocate to Cleveland, where this kind of thing is commonplace. You ask your members to strike, and still pay their dues. That seems like asking Mikey to eat something just to see how it tastes before you try. Put up or shut up. Preferrably shut up. Don't believe me? Ok. That's fine. Go read this then shut up.

After tooling around on the WGA site, I was able to find the current complaints that the WGA alleges. My personal favorite is the phrase "makes a mockery of any residuals."

Jesus, guys. Grow up. Writers write. Studios produce. They hire, fire, make the show, broadcast the show, own the equipment, have the tech and artistic knowhow. Writers write.

That said, strike, don't strike, whatever. But, for Michael Eisner to come out of left field and blame Steve friggin' Jobs for this? PLEASE. Dude. I'm sorry your new venture isn't making any money, and you're "begging advertisers to give [you] enough money to break even," but that's not Steve Jobs' fault. I'm sorry that he made you leave Disney. I'm sorry you hate the old Shiite Muslim, but, really. You think this is Apple's fault?

If maybe your old hackish industry "take everyone to the cleaners and keep the profits for ourselves" attitude had changed a decade ago, maybe, just maybe you'd have some goodwill with the craftsmen who make your shows.

Putting the tic in politics...

Note: I took a week or so off due to medical problems. Yes, "busy" is a medical problem. To me.

You. Have. Got. To. Be. Kidding. Me.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/11/house-tables-re.html

Kudos to Mike Carney for writing this well. Very informative.

Wow. I don't even know where to begin.

Without going into my personal political views, I think we can all agree on two points.

a) Dick Cheney deserves to be impeached.
OR
b) Dick Cheney does not deserve to be impeached.

If the man did commit some "high crimes and misdemeanors," (thank you Troll Boy for your eloquence) he absolutely should be impeached.

Don't think for a second that this is what it's about. This is all about politics. The Democrats wanted this way back when, but, apparently, now Pelosi does not. The Republicans, who never wanted this, apparently want to make the Dems have it anyway.

Why the flip-flop? Simply because these idiots are so damned partisan, they say the other thing just to be against. Duck-season! Wabbit-season! Duck-season! Wabbit-season! Wabbit-season! Duck-season!

Christ Almighty, where the Hell did this country go so wrong with Congress? Oh. Wait. Right. Back around the time of Alexander Hamilton.

Jesus.