Schadenfreude

Apparently CEOs are still worthless and overpaid. I suppose this is news to some people – in this case Forbes and ABC News.

I said basically the same thing here over a year ago.

Many CEOs are still corporate parasites and not worth anywhere close to what they are often paid. It gets worse when you consider that Gary Forsee’s pension for life of $84,000 (after getting fired for poor performance) per month could give 12 employees an $84,000 per year job. I’d really rather see that money go to someone who actually does some work instead of a useless, ex-CEO.

May Day started as number of pre-Christian celebrations including Beltane, the Walpurgis Night that were eventually Christianized along with most of Europe.

Today, however, it’s usually recognized as an International Workers day – a sort of Labor Day commemorating the fight for the eight hour work day. In many countries (notably, not the US or Canada) May Day is an official holiday.

This is somewhat ironic, since the day in question, May 1, was chosen in honor of the Haymarket affair in Chicago in 1886. But since US foreign policy in the 1950s (through the late 80s) was just to do the exact opposite of what the Soviet Union did, congress designated May 1 as the creepy, Orwellian, “Loyalty Day” in 1958 since May Day was observed by the Soviets.

So if you like your 8 hour work day, be sure to thank the people in the labor movement for the social and economic achievements that they fought so hard to give you.

Thank goodness that we all now know that the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter is Larry Birkhead. To be completely honest, though, I really don’t know who that is – nor do I really care. In fact, who does care? I mean are there really people out there waiting with bated breath to find out who Anna’s baby daddy is? Seriously? Why? Aren’t there more important or at least more interesting things to be doing with your time than obsessing over some complete stranger.

I didn’t even understand all of the commotion over her death. Was anyone really surprised? The only thing that surprised me was that she hung on for as long as she did. She was a dumb girl with a severe drug problem. This is exactly the sort of thing that often happens to people like that – they do something stupid and die. There really shouldn’t have been any shock and certainly no mystery. I suppose that it’s always sad whenever someone dies, but it’s not like she was some great cultural or scientific luminary. Oh no! Anna Nicole Smith is dead – there goes the cure for cancer. I say again - who really cares?

Okay, we know what killed her and who fathered her sprog - can we all talk about something else now? Please?

Cheney has once again dragged out the dead, bloated corpse of the supposed Saddam / al-Qiaida connection as the justification du jour for why we invited Iraq. I guess that I shouldn’t be too surprised considering that they’ve lied about everything else. But this is pretty craven, even for him. I mean that this is something that the whole rest of the world has known to be a lie for years now. Did he just run out of justifications so he had to prop up long dead ones like the guy in a “Weekend at Bernie's” movie?

Maybe the little maggot’s next recycled reason for the invasion will be that “He was a bad man” again. Well duh! He was a bad guy back when we were helping him murder Kurds and Iranians so I’m really not sure what all the urgency was about. Oh year, I forgot – oil and corporate profits.

Jib Jab has created a new cartoon that's pretty funny, but only becase it's completely true. Check it out at http://www.jibjab.com/what_we_call_the_news.