Geek Soap Box

(Inspired in large part thanks to a similar post on The Cranky Conservative…)

- It’s hard for someone as humble as me to admit it, but turns out I was way ahead of the curve in declaring President Barack Hussein Obama the Anti-Christ: a solid nine percent of the residents of the fine state of New Jersey agree with me (and another 13% aren’t sure)!  Of course, this really is a lot of nothing — with creative questioning, you could probably get 10% of any survey population to think they are actually secretly Martians visiting from the Republic of Kzerblockistan.  But it’s still fun nonetheless to giggle at the audacity of the average human being.

- Meanwhile, in my neighboring state to the north, WWE head honcho Linda McMahon may be preparing for a run for the United States Senate.  If this is the best that the Republican party hopes to offer in next year’s midterm elections, I’d say our cause is a hopeless one indeed.  The state of investigative journalism is not exactly at its peak these days, but it would be nigh impossible for such an election to not devolve into a chorus of “how many professional wrestlers have died or been arrested while under the McMahon’s employ (or immediately thereafter)?”  Just a week ago, WWE had no choice but to cut bait on multiple-time World Heavyweight Champion, Intercontinental Champion, and Tag Team Champion Jeff Hardy after a South Carolina sheriff’s raid uncovered hundreds of illegal drugs and paraphenalia possibly intended for distribution.

- I’m sick as a dog.  No H1N1, fortunately, just that change of seasons/allergies/head cold thing that comes and goes this time of year.  Over the past few years, though, my family has always had a simple solution ready at the first hint of illness: take Airborne.  Turns out the miraculous alternative medicine now may have closer ties to the snake oil of yore than any modern cure, if this lawsuit and subsequent class-action settlement are any indication.  Question: we are all up in arms over affordable healthcare and such, but how sad is it that we can’t even figure out what drugs actually work and are worth paying for still in this day and age?

- One of my sister associations today annouced that they hired someone to be a Senior Vice President for Social Media.  You will excuse me if, as the primary social media advocate for my own company, I’m not a bit perturbed that this individual likely now makes double my salary to do the same stuff for a much smaller group. Still, it’s probably the wrong way to go by making social media such an executive position; the role is not a specialty, more of a best fit based on the talents present at a company.

- Finally, the worst, most disgraceful president in the history of this great country, Jimmy Carter, has emerged once again from his rat hole to express his solemn grief that the “overwhelming majority” of individuals who oppose the current president due so merely out of their own dark racism.  Now — as mentioned above — you can pretty much get 10% of a population to say or think anything — but to go so far as to label blind hatred and bigotry as part of an “overwhelming majorty” is an utterly disgraceful and undignified and beneath a former holder of the highest office in the land.  I, for one, could not care less about the underlying DNA of the POTUS (that is, unless it traces back to Beelzebub), and loathe Obama not for the color of his skin but for his incompetent and irresponsible positions on financial reform, healthcare, and foreign policy.  Not to mention the fact that he’s also an attention whore who must find himself on television every single day.  Five shows this weekend, followed by Letterman, Mr. President?  Really?