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The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny
Last Friday, when I had my weekly meeting with my director, she casually mentioned that I wouldn’t be getting paid out for any unused vacation days when I quit at the end of the school year. Apparently, it’s written into everyone’s contracts here: Use ‘Em or Lose ‘Em.
“Well, next week is Spring Break anyway,” I said. “See you in ten days.”
So here I sit on my couch on a drizzly Tuesday afternoon, watching documentary after documentary on the Science Channel, sipping away at a sixpack of Thunderhead IPA. Man, I love having fuck-all to do.
This seems as good a time as any for a link dump:
Seems there’s a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth in the blogosphere about this newfangled Blogger’s Code of Ethics. Would widespread adoption of this code mean that it will no longer be acceptable to call David Gergen a retard? Does it mean I will no longer be allowed to refer to blowhard conservative pundits as Asshelmets? If treating jackasses with the scorn they so richly deserve is wrong, I don’t want to be right.
And speaking of jackasses: obviously, it’s now beyond all doubt that George W. Bush is our Worst President Ever™, but if John McCain somehow slithers his way into the Oval Office next year, Dubya may not hold that ignominious title for long. If you happen to be one of those poor folks still laboring under the delusion that McCain is an “independent maverick” who “possesses integrity,” I invite you to read this. God, what a soulless whore.
And speaking of soulless whores: 2006 may turn out to be the year when the Southern Strategy, the Republican Party’s (successful) 40 year quest to woo Dixiecrats by appealing to their innate bigotry, may have finally cost them the rest of the country. For the sake of this country’s future, I sure as hell hope so…
The Red Sox won their home opener today, 14-3 over the lowly Mariners. Ichiro struck out three times against the Sox, but he will nonetheless look great in Fenway next season, when he will be wearing a Boston uniform. I would feel sorry for the Mariners, since I have nothing against them, per se (in fact, I root for them whenever they’re not playing the Sox.) But after finding out they have the seventh largest payroll in baseball, my sympathy has disappeared. They don’t suck because they can’t compete financially with the big boys; they suck because their GM is a moron who signs crappy players.
And finally, just for shits and giggles, here’s another Personality Quiz.
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