Let's play pretend

Say you were grossly incompetant at your job. Say you got fired for being so bad at it that you ran the company into the ground. How well would you be rewarded for that in your severance package? You'd get the bare minimum--maybe two weeks salary, maybe benefits for that time, maybe.

Think you'd get $47 million!?!

And this is why no, I don't think there are man hours to dollar ratios of how much your work is worth, but you better fucking believe no one, especially not a resolute FAILURE of a CEO, is worth $47 million just to get rid of. Just goes to show: when in doubt, FAIL BIG.

A.I.G. is now getting $85 billion from the federal government. While it's not true that we, the taxpayers, are paying directly for this guy's incompetance and his grossly bloated severance package, it sure does feel scummy knowing that he took $47 million out of a company that was going to nose-dive only a few months later to the tune of $85 billion of our money, doesn't it?

I cannot believe the CEO salaries are justified as it is. So you better believe I don't buy for a goddamned second that these ludicrous going-away things are worth the paper their millions are printed on. When someone fails to keep a business thriving, that business, if it's a corporation (which only exists to make money) really, really shouldn't reward the person causing so much loss with money. Just doesn't seem good business, let alone anything like common sense.

I'm calmer now, promise

I forgive TWoP for spoiling me (some more) for the ending of last season of LOST. I even forgive the forum posters for spoiling me about a character on True Blood.

Why? Because the TARDIS won for "Best Performance by an Inanimate Object."

Yeah, after all the shit with the way last season of Doctor Who ended, I'd say so. At that point, she was the only character with any class left.

(Funny note: the runner up was the Metallicar from Supernatural. I have never not found that a hilarious name.)

I...WHAT!?

There can be no question but this goes so far over the line as to be...

I mean, LOOK AT THIS.

That's so wrong. On every level. And this is supposed to be funny!? How fucking tasteless can you get?

This makes me want to delete every fucking VG Cats icon I have. I am seriously revolted.

ETA: NOT SURPRISINGLY, ALL THE PEOPLE COMMENTING ON HIS FORUM FOR THE COMIC THINK IT IS SOOOOOOO FUNNY. THESE PEOPLE ARE DISGUSTING.

Epiphany

I suppose I'm due for one.

moonlightalice e-mailed this link to me. I read it and it hit me like a freight train full of elephants:

The current administration--and by extension the McCain group that is virtually the same in tenor--runs itself like its participating in a global reality TV show, and it doesn't matter how bad it screws the other guys because they'll get kicked off the show and it won't have to worry about them.

It's brilliant, if I do say so myself. Think about it. It's there in the lousy moves we pull on our "allies," the way we squandered international goodwill in the first episode by doing really dickish things to the other players who didn't necessarily deserve it even if they had really annoying, incompatible with co-sharing the house habits. As a result, we, America, are the drunk, slutty saboteur contestant that's a huge joke to the audience and the other contestants. As soon as our antics cease to amuse, when it becomes clear that our self-destructive behavior and stubbornness are intractible, the other housemates are going to band together and kick our asses out.

The guy we used to sleep with (Britain) is finding excuses to be elsewhere when we're horny for some "assistance." The ones we used to mentor, no matter their objections (Southeast Asia, Iraq, Afghanistan), have finally learned the most important lesson: those who can't play, coach. Only, we didn't count on all the innocent bystanders who got hurt by our slapping them around coming back. We thought they were gone. But in a surprise twist, they get to come back for a final tribal council.

We are so screwed.