Theres a restaurant at the Camarillo airport in SoCal.

here in So Cal. Otherwise nice, but the big flatscreen TV right in front where people gathered to wait for a table was tuned to Pox Noise. I did my usual. Approached the young woman at the reception podium and politely asked if she couldn’t change the station. She said no. I politely asked why. She replied that the owner of the restaurant insisted it stay tuned to Pox Noise. I expressed my disappointment and she smiled weakly and said “yeah. The owner.” I remained polite throughout, and went back to my seat, gently suggesting she tell her boss he’d just lost a customer for that reason.

They’re known for their tri-tip. But that owner will never get a nickel from me, ever again.

Indeed. The only thing even minimally satisfying about that treason weasel

is the smarmy, butt-ugly face God gave him. How’d you like having to look at that hairline in the mirror every morning?

But it matches, and actually fits him. Ugly on the inside as well as the outside.

They all behave like a bunch of spoiled entitled five-year-olds.

I recently learned of a new term that describes the deplorables and their apparent motivation for such shitty, juvenile, and disgraceful behavior: resentniks.

I like it. Sure does fit.

Neither did I.

Good analysis indeed!

This guy is all about the surface. He’s about 1/8 of an inch deep with a thin skin to match. He just wants the trappings, not the work or responsibilities or the accountability that come with the actual job. I think he viewed this “adventure” as more of a beauty contest, and he’s familiar with that. Glitz, sequins, blondes, a title, lots of prizes, fame, and a fancy crown at the end.

Yeah, no shit.

Excellent!!!

Feedback like this actually gives me a little hope.

Thanks for the report, Danmel!

Btw - don’t EVER be reluctant to speak up and lodge a complaint about the nauseating proliferation of Pox Noise. I got that damnable channel taken off the TV monitors in my local bank branch that way. I’m a regular customer. And I complained several times. One fine day I strolled in to do some business and guess what I saw? All the TV monitors in the place were now tuned to CNN!

DO NOT feel reluctant to complain! It might actually produce results. Either that, or, you then can be sure they don’t deserve your patronage any longer. It can serve as a “Sorting Hat” to help you “cull the herd” of businesses you no longer have to patronize as a result, now that you know where they stand. I learned that in the post-Watergate era - with the “don’t buy books by crooks” movement. Knowledge is power.

Righteous anger - absolutely.

I’ve been arguing with a colleague who admits to voting for trump, but strictly because of Pence. Yeah, cute excuse, I know. This person criticized me for being “SO Angry!!!” As in - “you are SO Angry, calimary!” As though that’s some forbidden and entirely unreasonable reaction that I’m evidently not allowed to have.

Well, guess what? Yeah. I’m angry, dammit. You bet yer ass I’m ANGRY! WAY Angry! Deal with it, pal. Anybody who ISN’T furiously angry about what this schmuck and his supporters and excuse-makers and trolls are doing to this country and its institutions (the same small-d-democratic institutions that have seen us through war, death, destitution, and despair in most of the past decades) is living in some Aggrieved White Fantasyland. Or America’s 51st State: the State of Denial!

Anybody who ISN’T angry about what’s happened and what this schmuck is doing to this country, our reputation, our moral leadership, AND to our standing in the world - is either asleep, in total denial, and/or actually likes and approves of what’s happening.

Sweet!!!