I’m in Dallas for the weekend, and I’m reminded that I don’t enjoy traveling all that much. It’s tolerable but certainly not appealing, especially when you are traveling on behalf of your employer. Las Colinas, the suburb where I’m at is way too new, way too artificial and way too busy. This place represents the best and worst aspects of what modern America has to offer its citizens.

It feels kind of dead and artificial to me.

“What is a porn buddy?

Simply put, a porn buddy is someone you meet, late at night, for the exclusive purpose of viewing pornography. “Exclusive” is the key word here. If you have sexual contact with your porn buddy at any time, he or she immediately forfeits special status and becomes a fuck buddy.”

One of the dumbest articles I have ever read is entitled, “A Shoulder to Sigh On” by author Rachel Shukart.

A Shoulder to Sigh On is a wordy paean to the little practiced art of watching porn with a member of the opposite sex, getting turned on and then switching the channel to PBS for Antiques Roadshow. New Yorkers are weird.

According to this quiz, I should be living the high life as a White House staffer. I’m going to put in my job application via e-mail and let you all know how it turns out.

You are a SRCF–Sober Rational Constructive Follower. This makes you a White House staffer.

You are a tremendous asset to any employer, cool under pressure, productive, and a great communicator. You feel the need to right wrongs, take up slack, mediate disputes and keep the peace. This comes from a secret fear that business can’t go on without you–or worse, that it can.

If you have a weakness, it is your inability to say “no.” While your peers respect you, they find it difficult to resist taking advantage of your positive attitude and eagerness to take on work. You depend on a good manager to keep you from sinking under the weight and burning out.

Of the 80976 people who have taken this quiz since tracking began (8/17/2004), 7.8 % are this type.

The lawsuit alleges that tens of thousands of children have suffered obesity, diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol and other health problems after being misled about McDonald’s products.

The mentally diseased whiners are at it again. Now that class action lawyers have become rich from smoking lawsuits, a new crop of these parasitic creatures is beginning what I’m sure will be a slew of lawsuits against fast food companies.

I have nothing but contempt for a) class action lawyers and b) the parents of obese children (who are often obese themselves). People who try to blame cause and effect on others make me sick.

Let me explain things simply here, for those of you who are in danger of succumbing to the creeping disease of itsyourfaultitis that has been spreading like cancer throughout this country. Cause and effect is simple. You are hungry, so you eat. You choose bad food and eat too much of it, so you get fat. This is your fault. Shut the f**k up and go on a diet. Eat less, and read books about nutrition. Exercise.

Do not go to court and whine. Do not raise the cost of eating for the rest of us just because you are a human ball of lard. That is your fault and you do not deserve to be paid for making bad choices.

The sneaky part of this is that the soul sucking lawyers involved are predicating the lawsuits on the idea that McDonald’s is somehow responsible for the health of America’s children. I know that parents used to hold the primary responsibility for the health of their own children but in the new, improved socialist United States of Obesity, the responsibility is apparently on your state’s child services, the Amber alert system, class action lawyers and McDonald’s will pay to raise your little fatty, buy him or her an XBox and pay for the liposuction every American child needs. It will also raise the price of my occasional Big Mac to $40.

Next time you see a rolling ball of child blubber wolfing down a giant vat of fries at your local McDonald’s remember that you’ll be paying for every extra ounce of food he or she is lustily consuming. You’ll be doing so because the nation you live in is a place that increasingly teaches a philosophy that nothing is ever your fault and that all your problems should be paid for by someone else.

A nation of whiners and welfare babies is a weak nation destined to mediocrity.

A health care company in Michigan is firing employees who smoke or are suspected of smoking. It fired employees who refused to take a drug test.

I have mixed feelings about this one. I think employers should be able to fire people who are actively pursuing unhealthy lifestyles, since they are forced by their employees choices to assume additional costs and liability. This would include big fat losers, chain smoking fools and self-important shits who do cocaine. Hell, I think you should be able to fire an employee for any reason at any time.

The whole key in not getting fired should be to make yourself important enough to the employer that you are indispensable or at least expensive to fire. Employers care about their bottom line and that’s the way it should be. I speak as someone who has been laid off in the last year from a job I held six years.

Your rights as an employee should only go as far as the contract you signed when you started with any given firm. Read the employee manual and hold your company to it. If they say everyone has to wear pink dildo suits on Fridays, then plan on wearing them every Friday. If the manual says you can be fired for any reason at any time, then count on that as a possibility and make sure you have savings.

Employers who cannot discriminate cannot run a business efficiently. Government should not have the power to artificially limit a company by telling it who it can and cannot hire. Companies that make bad decisions about which employees to hire will fail without hand holding from the government. It makes me sad to see the poll results showing that only 22% (at least when I last looked) of voters think companies should be free to fire unhealthy employees who are unhealthy by choice. Each passing year, it becomes harder and harder to survive as a company in this nation. That’s because choices that a business owner could once make that would add to the bottom line and ensure the financial health and survival of the firm are now being made by government regulators who are supported by ignorant, uninformed couch potatoes with no real world business experience.

A nation of whiners and welfare babies is a weak nation destined to mediocrity. We are destroying ourselves with political correctness and the idea that everyone should be treated equally even when they aren’t.

UPDATE: Boortz has some thoughts on being fired for smoking today as well. His are probably more cogent than mine, and his daily notes are always worth reading.