Things that are harshing my mellow today:

1. The post office got an extra day off ‘cause Ford died.  Why?  Who the hell knows?  It’s just what’s done, donchaknow.  Unfortunately, since I don’t have psychic abilities, I was unable to take this into account when paying bills.  So instead of “thank you for the memories” I’m singing “thank you for the late fees” for sure.  Damned holiday’d already screwed the mail up.  Fucking holidays.  Fucking weird-ass ceremonial gestures.

2. I was totally loving the fancy weird energy saver light bulbs that Jay’s been bringing home from Wal-Mart, but it turns out that selling them at a reasonable price is all part of H. Lee Scott, Jr.’s plan to save the planet from the sort of people who shop at Wal-Mart.  There’s just something wrong about having this fellow in charge there.  First organic food, and now this?  I mean, I like the bulbs, but now I feel dirty, somehow, you know?  Fucking activist CEOs.

3. That sonofabitch Wakefield was apparently paid by lawyers to undermine the MMR vaccine:

According to the figures, released under the Freedom of Information Act, Wakefield was paid £435,643 in fees, plus £3,910 expenses.

Wakefield’s work for the lawyers began two years before he published his now notorious report in The Lancet medical journal in February 1998, proposing a link between the vaccine and autism.

This suggestion, followed by a campaign led by Wakefield, caused immunisation rates to slump from 92% to 78.9%, although they have since partly recovered. In March this year the first British child in 14 years died from measles.

Fucking lying scheming murderous bastard lawyers.  Fucking no-good lying bastards that help them with their ugly schemes.

*sigh*

Somehow I don’t think this is fixin’ to be one of my less cynical years.

1. Deb,
   you didn’t expect bush to miss the new years day
   bowl games did you?
   I watched more than one and also part of the Rose parade.
   That’s the only reason I can see for Ford’s funeral
   lasting longer than he was president.

   Posted by  on  01/02  at  06:01 PM  from 

2. I feel your pain with item #1.  Dell is sending me a computer, and it came a day late thanks to the post office.  And my wife, who always pays her bills on the very day they’re due, had to do the unthinkable—pay with a credit card over the phone.  (Unthinkable to her, anyway; she refuses to epay.)

   Posted by  on  01/03  at  09:00 AM  from  Marietta, GA

3. Even the bank’s electronic payments are off.  I think there should be no bills due during the three weeks around Christmas/New Year’s.  Ugh.

   Posted by  on  01/03  at  11:23 AM  from 

4. i got my flouescent bulbs at rite aid drugs long before wal-mart had them.  they cost twice as much at Wal Mart.  I used to buy a lot of fishing supplies at wal mart but they don’t stock much now.
   what they do stock is more expensive then the local
   hunting and fishing store.

   Posted by  on  01/04  at  07:08 PM  from 

5. I think that the new guy in charge misunderstands the appeal of the thing.  He’s steadily ruining it trying to broaden the customer base to include people who wouldn’t be caught dead shopping at Wal-Mart and alienating the people who actually shop there in the process.  It’s not what it was, and that’s a Bad Thing.

   Posted by Deb  on  01/04  at  09:43 PM  from  cloud 8

6. You know, it amuses the shit out of me to see “organic” cookies.

   But otherwise, I give this post a huge thumbs up.  It’s not going to be a less cynical year for me, either.

   Slainte!

   Posted by Just Me  on  01/05  at  02:29 PM  from 
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