Watz Up With Tat??

Love that current skit on SNL - Watz Up With Tat, Watz Up With Tat?  Ernest Bourgnine was a guest member of the skit recently and just sat there the entire time with this shit-eating grin on his face and never said a word. He looked so peaceful.

But what is up with that?  I'm talking about the latest inductees to the Rock-N-Roll Hall of Fame.   While the Hall is certainly an honorable foundation (or whateve it is), Alice Cooper was just now inducted.  WTF???  This guy invented theatrical rock, has been emulated by many artists already voted in, sold platinum records and was the leading money-maker in concerts for several years in the 70's.  Who the fuck are these industry schmucks who nominate and elect???   They don't all work for Rolling Stone I hope.  While I subscirbe to that rag, I've decided if it wasn't for Matt Taibi articles I would have dropped it years ago.  But that's another rant.

Also missing from the R-N-R Hall Of Fame (to name a few):  The Guess Who, Grand Funk Railroad, Steve Miller Band, Joe Walsh (& The James Gang) and Stevie Ray Vaughn!  Shit!!  And, to me, the biggest slap in the face is the fact that Ian Hunter hasn't even been nominated.  He wrote and sang Cleveland Rocks for christ's sake, and has been writing, singing and playing for 5 decades (he just turned 70) and hasn't even been nominated!!  Who are these morons???  Even the wacked out murderer Phil Spector is in.  What's a guy gotta do?? 

Kudos to the Repubes for putting their aggregate foot down on earmarks and the current 1 trillion+ budget.  And then they jumped in with the Dems and passed DADT, even without the vote of John "Silver-Spoon" McCain, the biggest issue flopper of our time.  Of course, they then turned around and in the anti-spirit of the season, killed the Dream Act (along with some soulless Democrats).  Jesus, how cold-hearted are these people.   Kids that grew up in this country that just want a chance to go to college and join the fucking Army are told they're not worth it.  Give them a chance and they'll pay taxes some day!!!  SIGHHHHHHHH.....

Cause Of Death To Be Determined

Really?  Mark Madoff hangs himself and the article ends with that statement.  So, did he know about Daddy's doings?  Here's the bottom line:  how could any thinking person with a buck to invest not suspect something was up with a guy who consistently, year after frickin year, returned 10-12% return despite what the market was doing?  Up, down, sideways, it didn't matter.  Duhhh.  So they're (yes, the correct use of the word this time) all guilty of the guilty pleasure of taking money being manufactured in a backroom that to question the source was to admit the guilt.   But don't hang yourself Mark.  Be a fucking man and own up.  You had young children to care for.   And the rest of you Madoff money grubbers, just agree to give back the profit as it's actually someone else's money and if you're left broke, oh well.  At least you'll have lots of company in this economy!

Did someone lead the Tea Party sheep to the summer range? Where the hell are they?  The Repubs and Obama are fixing to add hundreds of billions to the debt with this larded up tax bill and not a fucking baaaahhh from these people?  Once again, hypocrisy reins and nothing in the press (that I've heard or read) about that.  C'mon Rand, WTF????

5 Minutes and your blogging - bullshit!!!

If I was 20 something, that may be the case.  This shit is no doubt designed by someone who was working a computer at age 2-1/2 and has an accumulated knowledge of digital basics that they ASSUME everyone else has.  It's like learning calculus where the instructor assumes you know algebra.  Sound familiar??

Can't blame the punks that designed it though - they don't realize hordes of people lack this basic shit.  And that, my friends, IS the generational gap for the boomers and they're off-spring.  And there is no way someone who first laid eyes on a Commodore computer in the 1980's can have this fundamental know-how in their grey matter.  IT AIN'T THERE!!  So software designers, who will no doubt be reading this soon, engage a 50-something dude for some input next time you need to algorithm something. 

Man, I feel so much better - and much cheaper than psychological counseling from some "specialist" with their own set of mental short-comings.  But that's for another week..... 

Frog