The continual rectal abuse of the American people is getting worse every day. Recently, I purchased gasoline for $1.999 per gallon. That's $2. After taking my punishment for having a job that requires transportation to and from each day, I proceeded to go to work, to afford more gasoline to buy to go to work. Whilst on the way to my employer, I heard on the radio, some ... read on

Each weekday morning at approximately 7am, thousands upon thousands of myrmidons drag themselves out of their warm beds for yet another action-packed day of kissing the corporate booty. These sheeple get all gussied up, fight traffic for 30-60 minutes, and plop their oversized posteriors into their cages. (Some call them cubicles, others call them pods, I call them cages). ... read on

Recently, at my place of employment, we had a survey of how we the commoners felt the company was doing. And much like every other company in the world, the employees felt that they are underpaid. Is this true? Probably not. I would say that the employees are not necessarily underpaid, but it sure as hell feels like it when the company's CEO is making 270 times what the av ... read on

I have had it with wieners who think they're big shots. Had it. I am tired of the ignorant slobs who are given the smallest shred of authority and suddenly believe that they are the best and brightest because they have a flippin' title. I'm also tired of the corporate practice of hiring and promoting the biggest kiss asses to be the "leaders" of the company. Yesterday, ... read on

Yesterday it was announced that Google had acquired a small website, Writely.com. This would ordinarily mean nothing. But, this particular website is an online word processing site. So now, you can have a word processor without ever installing one on your computer, all you need is a browser. While the vast majority of people will not use this particular service because ... read on

Steve Jobs is a prick. That's really all it boils down to. He's a brilliant marketer, but he is severely deficient in the technical areas of his company. He may have once been a hands on kind of guy, but those days are long since gone. The man from Cupertino has hyped up a frickin' cell phone. People all of the Internet talking up how awesome this phone is, all forgetting ... read on

If you live in the Central part of Iowa, or hell, anywhere in Iowa, there has been a consumer dream on the horizon for years now, and at the beginning of last month it finally came true, Jordan Creek Town Center has arrived! And what a dream it is, in the first week of business it broke its all time records for attendance, what with having no previous records to judge b ... read on

I am tired of McDonald's stupid damn policy of not putting friggin' napkins in the bag when you make an order inside to go. This is the biggest piece of crap policy to "save money" in the history of business. How much money are they really saving? A nickel a day maybe? If anything, I would say it's costing them more money to have me go to the freakin' soda bar and pull 95 ... read on

Recently, I purchased a new car, and I have a new lease on fat food life, I can now go through the drive-thru to pick up meals on the go. Before, I was forced to park the car get out and go inside. During my time of going into Mickey D's to make my orders I noticed that the assholes who ran the counters didn't bother to give me napkins, ever, for "to go" orders, and I thou ... read on

Friday, I almost killed myself and some old man in a minivan who had no idea how to drive. My brakes finally gave up the fight, they decided they would no longer function. I, being the intrepid young man that I am chose to fight on without my brakes, and get to work, and then take my car to the shop on my break. All went as planned, except the random interstate funeral ... read on

Microsoft hates pirates, I mean they hate pirates. So much so that they will go to any lengths to prevent 1% of pirating. So much so that to stop that 1% of pirates they will loudly proclaim they are doing something about it and potentially accuse 20% of their legitimate customers thieves and pirates. Microsoft is such a smug company that if this is brought up they will te ... read on

Microsoft Windows Vista has been out in the open for 2 months, and already it has sold 20 million copies, or so the PR guys at Microsoft would have you believe. To make statements like theirs and suggest that there are really that many copies of Vista out in the wild is, quite frankly, a lie. There may have been 20 million licenses sold, under forced contract agreements wi ... read on

Recently, Microsoft came out with guns blazing, saying that they are going to take a hard line on your computing security, offering a new free spyware removal program. You'll have to pardon me while I puke in my shirt laughing. It's comical that Bill Gates and the crew can say with a straight face that they take security seriously. The people that brought you VBScript and ... read on

The ticket prices for movies is disgusting. When I was a kid movies were like, $3 to get in, and I'm not that old. Now it costs $8-10 for a non-matinee, just to get in the door. If the movie ticket price were more reasonable more people would go to see them, I wait until they come out on DVD because I cannot afford to blow money on something I can only see once for 1/3 ... read on

We all love the Internet. Heck we're all on it right now. Surfing for items to purchase, auctions to win, insane pyramid schemes, love, sex, nudy pictures, and hardcore pornography. There is currently in the Senate a law that would squash your right to use the Internet how you please. It will make it more than a nebulous, fuzzy, should be illegal but really is legal, act t ... read on

Let me begin by saying that I love free trade and a free market economy. Let me then follow up that monopolies are the very worst thing for free trade. Many people would like to say that monopolies are just the end result of free trade. Except that isn't true. We have a cartel of a few companies controlling the cost of gasoline, which sucks, but it is true. At the same ... read on

Holy crap! Oil prices are at record levels, and predicted to hit $50 a barrel. This makes me want to puke my eyes out. When barrel prices were $30 a barrel I was paying an assload at the pump, and yet the pump prices are disturbingly the same. And these oil baron assholes are still making money hand-over-fist. What this means is, that for the last ten years (actually mu ... read on

OpenOffice.org is a free, open-source office suite that is available for any and all who would like to get away from the Microsoft driven world of Office politics, and into a world where the users actually get to decide what features are necessary, and which aren't really features. Ever since Microsoft Office 97, the corporate world has been held in a strangle-hold by ... read on

Last Friday I quit my former ISP, for a superior (and cheaper) alternative. My old ISP was Juno a member of United Online. I joined their crew because when I moved to the Des Moines area, they were the only ISP that came with connectivity in Windows 2000 in the area. At first it was fine, until I decided (why I have no idea) to reformat the hard drive of my computer. When ... read on

Last Friday, Warner Brothers Home Video announced that they will be releasing their high definition movies on the Bluray format exclusively starting in June of 2008. That was great news for all consumers, except the early adopters of HD-DVD. And it is great news, it takes the relative equality of the content available on the formats out of the equation, now if you want to ... read on

Well, the American people need to start investing in a water-based lubricant, cause we're gonna start taking it up the butt again. In March I was ranting about the outrageous price of oil, and subsequently gasoline, and it just keeps going higher. This is not being caused by a lack of oil, supply and demand are in pretty good balance. Lucky for all of us, dickless asshats ... read on