Black Friday Down

So it would seem that "Black Friday" weekend sales figures are down 3% overall from last year. Despite the soulless corporations sticking their cocks even farther into Thanksgiving Day than ever before.

Some would say the drop in sales might be due to some of the masses actually finally getting fed up and refusing to shop on that weekend due to the business practice of invading the holiday even more. But that's wishful thinking. Americans are drooling fucking fucksticks who will spend twice their monthly income to "save" a few dollars.

Personally, I think the sales are down because people are fucking poor. Hard to spend money on shit when you're trying to pay back student loans on McJob wages. If the CEOs of corporations would stop thinking they deserve to have their executive washroom's toilet paper made from $1000 bills and actually PAY their employees a wage that didn't mandate said employees staying on food stamps, we might see sales increase.

Of course, the feckless monsters will see the solution to simply start the sales EVEN EARLIER, ruining the only time in the year that a lot of people have with their extended families.

No, I am not laying the blame solely on the businesses. Corporations are amoral by nature. The average CEO may rank high on the "Am I clinically a psychopath?" scale; but they wouldn't think to open their doors on holidays if their wasn't an indicator that their would be people walking through those doors. The blame lays on you idiots who made Black Friday so profitable for them.

Yes, I've been guilty of being one of the idiots camping outside early on Friday. But I grew out of it. In fact, I've vowed to not set foot in a store until after New Year's if it was open on Thanksgiving. Of course, that does not include businesses that have ALWAYS been open on Thanksgiving. Have to put that disclaimer in for the drooling fucktards that will say something stupid like "Oh, not going to the gas station? Hur hur hur. Herpyderpderp."

You are not your possessions.

Shaving JAK Day!

See the button to your right? The pretty pretty button that wants you to click it? Click it and donate some money to the JAK Shaving Day event.

Yes folks, you can be part of deciding how the Nailgun of Loving Kindness, the Bouncer of the Cosmos, the Walking Wall himself will groom his facial topiary into for the remainder of the month ( or until I get a job offer that pays me enough to not have to donate sperm to science fiction research. Whichever comes first. )

Donate to my paypal. Tell me how you'd like me to shave my follicle eruptions. If you don't know how to describe a certain style ... Here's a handy dandy lil chart.

The style chosen which gets the most money by 0900 ( that's 9AM, folks ) Eastern Standard Time on September 20th will be how the beard gets shaven. Again, that's 09/20/2013 at 0900 EST ... Make sure to have your votes in by then.

As an added bonus for the truly sadistic. If any bids go over $100 dollars; the highest bidder may come over and perform the shave in person. C'mon ... you know you've always wanted to take a razor to my face.

Vote early, Vote often. Take part in Shaving JAK Day 2013!

(- Daddy needs new EVERYTHING. At least this way, you all get a lil amusement out of my begging for money. -)

Op-ed: Seth MacFarlane not the "problem".

Queue people claiming I'm a vile misogynist and backlash saying that Brownworth hates her own gender for defending the "sexist pig" in
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When you look at the first of the (what nowadays passes for) news outlets that started the "McFarlane is a sexist pig. How dare he!?!", you find blogs that have a history of actively seeking out gender issue related things to be outraged about. And if they can't find it ... they'll create it.

And since the mainstream media is lazy as hell (and the fact that sites like HuffPo are notorious for NOT paying their "reporters" except in 'exposure' ...) a lot of the following noise about this has just been those blogs being parroted.

It's nice to see someone actually speaking sense. Too much of the noise has basically been blaming the town crier for burning down Town Hall because he called the alarm.

Sadly, as I stated earlier, I can see the backlash being the writer being branded as a self-hater ... and some people I call friends that will now either say, or think, I am a misogynist.

A friend pointed out this lil gem of an article to me.

Two Phrases That Destroyed American Culture

I agree with most of this article. I'm not exactly on board with the thoughts written down about the phrase "You have to earn my respect." But moreso because of my own personal viewpoint. I agree completely with the sentiment behind it.

Some of you have been (un)lucky enough to witness when I wield my innate ability to channel "Asshole Prime" and focus it on a fellow customer who so dearly deserves it. (- Okay, sometimes I might take it a bit far and could be brought up on assault charges. But everyone in the place laughed their asses off when I rolled up a copy of Artvoice and corked the guy upside the head. -)

I've worked retail. I've worked jobs where my livelihood depended on tips. I have NO hesitation to call out someone when they are treating the person behind the counter in a rude manner.

NONE of you should have any hesitation in doing so. The asshats and bitches only act that way because no one calls them on their behavior.

DO NOT look away and act like it's not your business.

It IS your business.

The next person the fucktard will treat like shit may be a friend or family member.

STEM THE TIDE! CALL PEOPLE OUT WHEN THEY ACT LIKE ASSHATS!