@melanie – Twitter feels safe as a complaint zone; plus I doubt Darius Rucker will hunt me down to retaliate . . . even though he probably could and should. There should probably be an ownership or accountability system, where the person who wrote, “meet you at your connivance” could actually defend himself in person TO ME. This could be to exonerate himself (chuckle) or just to kick my ass (attempt anyway) for picking on his otherwise perfect grammar.

I actually have the same problem: Twitter is like my complaint zone. I’m working on it. But then, my complaints aren’t nearly as funny as yours.

Let me just start here: “frompy ingrate”. LMAOROTGS (laughing my ass off rolling on the ground suffocating) – I think that’s hillarious, it’s true, and therefore it’s needed.

Unfortunately in today’s world there are many people who have never had the benefit of total and complete failure, crushing them out of their personal and collective reveries.

I like it when you break some glass. I think you should continue to do so.

Now for the other part, the balance part. Sarcasm, literally cutting the flesh, is great for tumors, but shite for the heart or soul. I do believe there are things that need a good shellacking. That includes not just ideas but people. Why? Because sometimes polite reasoning or fluffy shiny iphone graphics just don’t blow shit up as is occasionally needed.

It’s like trying to get stains out of a piece of clothing using “organic, not toxic, cruelty free” soap. Ever tried it? Done. Doesn’t do shit. You need some Dow Chemical, death in a bottle, Chlorine atomic bleach that almost kills you when you open the lid. Now that works!

I guess I go back and forth from Depak to Drill Sergeant. Not sure if that’s healthy, but I just have to say, in certain situations the “kinder, gentler” thing is just a mask for fearful, pussies who don’t have the guts to state their wholehearted opinion and risk being a fool for something they believe in. Two heroes of mine in this regard are Teddy Roosevelt (Man in the Arena speech) and…wait for it… George S Patton (Speech in June 5th, 1944 England).

These are not only eloquent, vulgar, and demonstrate soulish alacrity. Patton example: “I don’t give a fuck for a man who’s not always on his toes.” Why do I LOVE that?

Or… Roosevelt: “Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world.”

Now that’s what I’m talking about!!!

So I guess with most things we just need to buck up and drive forward. But there are also critical times where that laser beam can destroy far more than we think or intend. I try to put it this way…never shoot the hostage. In most situations that frompy ingrate at Denny’s is the hostage and our highest calling is not to war against her…but that which is holding her hostage.

Do I get some steak now?