It is like the phrase 'lazy government workers', which often gets tossed around when I am around. I am one, I am not lazy and I can't name a lazy one. slow, chickenshit, or easily overwhelmed by bureaucracy , but not lazy.

I can totally understand not wanting to hear knee-jerk insults, whatever the context. Sure sometimes I can turn the other cheek when I hear someone use a stupid stereotype to insult my school, my job, my hometown, my neighborhood, whatever. It happens. Other times it makes me angry.

Shoot, our Internet is out and I'll have to call support. It drives me nuts when my wife calls me at work to have me call support for something at home. Inevitably, they ask me to do something and I have to explain that I can't because I'm not there.

It drives me nuts when my wife calls me at work to have me call support for something at home.

hm. my uncle got that exact same call today.

::notes how odd the universe is, and goes back to festering::

I can't name a lazy one.

I can. Not your co-workers, but some I knew in my last job. And my job before that (at Countrywide) generated lots of knee jerk negativity upon mention, but I guess I just never identified enough with them to care. If you make the criticism about me (and some tried) it was different, but I wasn't working for the SS and it rolled off my back relatively easily.

Weird that there is a crowd where I'm a news junkie, but a lot of it started with the Olbermann blog. (six days till the Maddow Tv show!!) So I read Washington Post, Kos, local paper(except opinions...BAD juju) And watch "Countdown" every day, and mostly wonder if I'm ever gonna hear mom say "Turn Keith on!" without thinking "Huh, huh, huh!" and cursing the continent between us.

It is like the phrase 'lazy government workers', which often gets tossed around when I am around. I am one, I am not lazy and I can't name a lazy one.

I've heard writers of other genres bash romance as "easy, cheap porn for women," or young adult as "that kiddie crap," so often, that I've learned to let most of it roll off my back-- most of the time. But then there are times it just absolutely gets to me and makes me want to smack people.

eta: I think Chrome is going to give SA a stiffie, because I've never seen her have less than 9 tabs open at a time.

I average about 5 or 6 tabs open at a time. Often I have multiple browser windows open with multiple tabs.

Anyway, Chrome is cool. In some ways the browser has been adopting OS functions for a while now, so it makes sense for browsers to be more OS-like.

Oh, fuck, man. I'm going to have to download Chrome, aren't I?

Heh. I work, technically, (through a couple levels of company-holding) for an insurance company. And contract through them to work for a drug company. There's plenty of evil to spread around, in that!

But the actual job-ness that I do, I feel is good. And I feel free to hate the insurance provided by the company I work for, so I have no problem with others hating on them. I occasionally will correct people when they are flat-out wrong on how some stuff works, about how drug companies do things in re: testing drugs, but...doesn't mean I disagree in how there is evil in some other bits of the business model. Lord knows there's a reason I'm not in the sales part of the company. Not enough showers in the universe.

Speaking of jobs you have and how you relate to them, it seems that Mark Paul Gosselaar might cry his way through his new series. But it's the law I want to comment on. In this week's episode, a defendant was found not guilty of the felony with which he was charged, but guilty of the associated felony weapons possession charge. Both the DA and the defender argued that the second charge is no longer a felony but a misdemeanour, so sentencing should be reduced appropriately. The judge argues that the jury made their decision, and this is what process dictates--obviously we're to feel for the the defendant, but later on they seem to want us to have capacity for feeling for the judge's methods (if not her madness). Is she on crack, or reasonable?

God, I can't believe I just typed all that about the show.