11.18.08
Hey, G.
Eric Holder, eh? Hmm. That’s an interesting choice.
Who says politics won’t be fun again?
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11.17.08
Thieving Bastards Get What’s Coming to Them
By way of a link from Glenn Reynolds, read this New York Times account of one of my favorite corporate citizens:
In March 2007, Circuit City came up with a plan to confront softening sales and competition from online and offline retailers: fire the most talented, experienced employees.
Of course, those workers were the retail chain’s single most important point of difference from the legion of Internet retailers and general merchandisers, but in a single stroke, Philip J. Schoonover, the chief executive of Circuit City, wiped out that future.
As a pal of mine used to say when I described a particularly boneheaded course of action I had pursued, “How’d that work out for you, buddy?”
For Circuit City, not so great. The “wage management initiative” erased morale, both for employees and the folks who shopped there. Sales sank after the one-time gain from the layoffs. And last week, the company sought bankruptcy protection.
I strongly approve of Circuit City’s imminent journey down the crapper. That company is a lot of thieving bastards. That’s a fact in your Library of Congress. They sold me a cassette adapter for a portable CD player in my old Honda probably a decade ago and —long story short— it completely disabled my car stereo. Did I have any recourse? Fuck no. Did I fantasize about choking me some bitches like Wayne Brady? Yes. Yes, I did.
Retailers who don’t stand behind what they sell are nothing but thieves.
I am pleased to say that I have never since that incident gone into a Circuit City. I shred or toss their mailers as soon as I see them and I immediately flip the channel when one of their ads comes on. They are dead to me and, soon enough, to us all.
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11.12.08
Breaking Out in a Rationale
I don’t understand why T. Boone Pickens has put his much-touted wind energy plans on hold. Does he know something about the mid-term future of fossil fuels that the rest of us do not? Regardless of how much he’s invested in wind-tech thus far, it rather undermines the seriousness of his recent proposition that we are facing a crisis when this is how he responds to such a drop as we have lately seen —albeit a pretty huge one— in the prices of oil and gas. It just seems strange. Pickens is in the last quarter of his life —and you gotta figure he’s got the mortgage covered— so why wouldn’t he persist with the next big thing?
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11.05.08
Inparticipant
I did not participate in the Moment That Was last night because I was being a baby about the whole thing. But, I hasten to add, a preternaturally indifferent baby. Not one for crying and carrying on, but a placid one already resigned to the outcome despite, you know, the Hope.
After it became clear that Pennsylvania had declined to hop on board the Straight Talk Express v.2.0, I lost the ascot, had a nightcap, and remembered some passions.
I should probably be ashamed of myself for turning my back on such a dawn of a new age —especially considering how much love I have for History and for my own exceptionalistic country— but I will get over it. After all, I know what happened. So do you.
The world keeps turning, the Republic will live, and Charity conquers all.
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11.02.08
Hopiate of the Masses
Barack Hussein Obama is a disaster in the making —and the American people apparently can’t be bothered. All those lies and manipulations are going to matter at some point, but for now, there’s a new religion in America —a religion of demagoguery, totalitarianism, and insults to our culture.
Once again, I will neither bend my knee nor wear the soulless mask of the enraptured.
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