2 posts tagged “asshats in charge”
Okay, the renovations of the basement of Brain Tumor Hall have on occasion been annoying and amusing.
Annoying = listening to someone jackhammer directly under your feet for an hour.
Amusing = listening to someone jackhammer directly under your feet for half an hour while a Dean is talking to the faculty committee about how the renovations aren't going to disturb the department. The look on his face was priceless.
Today, though, is really pushing me. Right now, as I type, there is a massive cement truck parked below my office window and it is pumping concrete into the basement of BT Hall through a large hole that has been punched in the side of the building, directly below my office. (Oh and the lights are flickering every ten seconds or so.) This is no longer annoying or amusing. This is fucked up. They start work every day at 4:00 pm. Why? Because most classes are over by then? News flash, Provost Asshat: all the secretaries in BT Hall are required to work from 8-5. Why can't the construction work start at 5?
This shit keeps up and I'm going to start praying for Provost Asshat to get colon cancer.
Looking through the news today, I saw this headline: Petraeus will take Iraq command. Below that, in smaller font: General known as counterinsurgency expert. Huh, I thought, so that little gnome, General David Petraeus is considered a counterinsurgency expert?
Then, I Hulked-out. The vein on my forehead popped up, I tightened my grip on the mouse so hard I heard its plastic housing creak, and then I shouted, "We have a counterinsurgency expert?" I mean, fuck, people! Have we or have we not been fighting a bitter insurgency in Iraq for going on four years now? And only NOW, NOW we're going to put our counterinsurgency expert in charge? What? We were just waiting until things got really bad? They weren't bad enough a year ago? Does this mean that somewhere we have an expert on winning this pathetic and illegal war in Iraq, but we're not going to use him until things get worse?
Goddamnit. Does the Bush Administration like being fuck-ups? Is that it? Do they enjoy the taste of failure and defeat? I can't help but wonder if this hasn't been the problem all along, with all the other things Bush and his cronies have fucked up...did they just not want to put in their expert too soon?
Did we also have an expert on emergency evacuation working somewhere at FEMA during Hurricane Katrina? What was he doing? Delivering mail while Mr. My Li'l Pony Club was in charge?
Do we have somebody who knew how to catch bin Laden, but we were just waiting for the right moment before we put him into action?
Do we have somebody who knows how to balance the budget and provide health care for every American, but we don't want to put him into the game too soon?
Do we have an expert on solving the horror going on in Darfur, but we don't want him to get burned out solving little genocides?
The fact that we are now putting a counterinsurgency expert in command in Iraq ought to give me hope, but somehow it doesn't.
