One bourbon, one scotch, and one mav

The days for getting a callback from Dell have come and gone. So, I am stuck with my current job for the forseeable future, and now I’ve gone and fucked myself in the ass for promotion possibility as well.

FUCK.

Boy, have I managed to make a giant clusterfuck out of the last few months.

On top of that, I’ve managed to write myself into yet another situation that there’s no getting out of without pissing somebody off. So, sometime in the next week I have to make somebody really unhappy, and I don’t know whom yet.

Some time back I had “Maybe I need to have better dreams” as my MSN title and I’m beginning to think it’s true. I haven’t really had much in the way of a goal since I closed the shop. I don’t know what sort of goal to set. I’m not talented enough at the stuff I really like to be able to do it for a living, and I’m not really happy doing anything else. I guess I’m just fucked.

Hi, I’m mav, and I’m a no-good, talentless loser who will never amount to anything.

Bush wants Alberto Gonzales as our next attorney general. So let’s do a little reading, shall we?

“Gonzales drew criticism after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks when he wrote a memo in which Bush claimed the right to waive anti-torture law and international treaties providing protections to prisoners of war. That position drew fire from human rights groups, who said it helped lead to the type of abuses uncovered in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.

Specifically, Gonzales’ memo said the Geneva Convention that had long governed the treatment of prisoners did not apply to al-Qaida or the war in Afghanistan. The memo called some of the Geneva Convention’s provisions “quaint.”

Very nice. Apparently when we the People asked collectively “Who in the fucking world could you possibly get that would be worse than Ashcroft?” the Bush administration interpreted that as a challenge.

You just have to read this bullshit to believe it.

According to our wonderful former attorney general:
America is now safe from terrorism
Drug use isn’t a real problem anymore
Corporate integrity has been restored! (Apparently they actually had it at some point)

This fucker is as deluded as Fred Phelps, and almost as much of an asshole. So now that the cocksucker has defiled the American justice system and splashed his manjuices on the ever-so-gullible American public, he’s off to do the same to the private sector. Good, they can keep him.

So he’s gone. Yay. Now I’m just waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Congratulations, America. In four years, George Bush:

• tried to amend bigotry into the Constitution
• has cut funding or added restrictions to scientific research every chance he got
• invaded a foreign country on grounds later proven to be patently false
• has consistently defended business’ rights to fuck the public in the ass

George Carlin was right. The public really does suck. Or, at the very least, is dumb as a goddamn lamppost. Cocksuckers, every last one of you.

Every four years, our country finds a collective target, takes careful aim, then turns the gun around and shoots our collective self in the face. I doubt tonight’s going to be any different. In celebration of our continued stupidity, I bring you this archived entry because George Carlin is much smarter than myself.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to get to work.

“If you have a place in your mind or in your heart that you can go to, in spite of everything that you’re dealing with in your life, and feel…. ease, and peace… bliss, even… then they don’t have you.”
– Gil Bellows, during an interview about the impact his acting in the Shawshank Redemption had on his life (he played Tommy Williams.)