suffer fools gladly no more

When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.

_Talmud

I’m going to call this a life-habit.

Remarkable thing about people – just about everyone is sensitive to disaproval, even ass-holes are worried what other people think. You hear someone making sexist, racist or just plain ignorant jokes a simple well chosen comment can turn the tables on them.

People say a great many things, mostly in an attempt to project an image of themselves. If you respond in a way that is dismissive – not outraged, embarrased, humoured, my experience is people will try to back away from their comments. The infamous ‘JOKE’, it’s not a joke it’s only implied there was a joke somewhere and it allows a person to back away from the comments after the fact. Remember the shock-comics? Andrew Dice Clay, Dennis Leary, Howard Stern – “I’m not really an ass-hole, it’s all part of the act folks”

though it would be far more satifying to hit a fool who talks a lot of shit it just isn’t allways practical. Take as an example jacks’ idiot boss: this guy is an absolute tool. He makes stupid, sexist comments about female staffers, is belittling, arrogant, rude and the only thing he seems to do well is cover his ass…

When jACk was learning his manners as a boy this kind of behavior would get you called out. We used to have a saying: ‘don’t write a cheque with your mouth you can’t catch with your fists.’

Sadly, times have only changed for the worse in this regard. It’s caused by employment scarcity. Genuine righteous anger has has been hugged out of existence by ‘I’m OK – you’re OK/violence is bad’ namby-pambyism. It just gets you fired and brought up on assult charges.

We are far from the light of day my friends. True civilization depends on consequences as a balance to power. Without consequences where is the need for civility?

So, I say: don’t laugh. When the fool makes a vicious joke – like that bitch Ann Coulter, who pauses after she makes a particularily pernicious statement to let it sink in – don’t laugh. Let silence fill the pause. Let it draw out, let it be unbroken, let it hang in the space between you. This is not to say ignore the comment, or do not respond to it. I mean aknowledge it, but do not laugh. Do not seek to mitigate it, or make it lighter, do not let it become “just a joke.”

no more mister nice guy

It is insane the foul, vicious crap a person is expected to listen to on a daily basis. Racism, uniformed religious and partisan-political drivel, bull shit advice. Well jaCK isn’t going to take it any more.

From now on you speak shit and I say so. I am too old to be polite in the face of rudeness. Besides – I’ve been aching to hit someone so please take an issue with it.