Shut Up and Deal

I had to work with the Albatross today. I basically got a smackdown talk and was told that I was lucky to get any work out of him at all. It makes my skin crawl.

I am so fucking angry about it. I just have two more weeks and this person is out of my life. I just imagine wrapping my fingers around his neck and squeezing the life out of him. Then I would stab him with my fountain pen or sharpie. I also thought about setting his office on fire using purrell. Don't worry, I just read Mr. Peanut and wanting to kill the Albatross just makes me feel a little bit better.

"And I had done an hellish thing,
And it would work 'em woe:
For all averred, I had killed the bird
That made the breeze to blow.
Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay
That made the breeze to blow!"


Thanks Coleridge!

OK now I feel better!

Random Hollywood shoutout

I have crush on Eli Roth! So joli laide! Goodbye Adrien Brody...I got a new Hollywood crush!

Hell is Other Economists

I am currently doing two jobs at work, my actual job and my co-worker's job. He has just mentally checked out because his retirement is two weeks away. Our acting branch chief actually asked one of us to volunteer to host his retirement party. I did not step up.

I really don't have time for party planning. I just wish we could just jetison him out of the building in a torpedo tube. Quick, cheap, and efficient.

Privatization Hangover

Nothing puts me in a right, Republican rage, than McDonnell's ABC privatization plans! Governor McDonnell is pushing for the ABC stores to be privatized so that the state of virginia can make beaucoup bucks for one fiscal year and fix the transportation crisis. Don't let him do it Virginia citizens! I am all about free markets, but privatizing the ABC stores is a bad idea during difficult economic times.

The ABC stores are cash cows. In 2009, they generated about 111 million in profits which were allocated to education and the Virginia General Fund. If the government Privatizes ABC stores, they estimate that they will get a ONE TIME 500 million dollar revenue bump from selling but it is unclear how much revenue will be generated over time. So basically, Government McDonnell looks great in 2011 and is out of office before the revenue hangover hits.

I haven't seen the state publish an analysis of this issue which makes it fishy as hell. Why would you mess around with something that actually works?! And in the most difficult economic climate since the 2001 recession?

Question authority! It needs to be decided by the citizens as a referendum, not this governor.