Six Inches Forward and Five Inches Back

All this episode of “As the Talibunny Spins” reminds me how much I miss the Three Stooges.

An I thought this was going to be related to reports that America’s Hero™ flight attendant was banging his boyfriend when the cops arrived.

@Mistress Cynica: Steven Slater and this whiteboard using lady who called out her pig of a boss are winning the day in terms of how to quit in style.

@Mistress Cynica: I was watching a news clip and wondering who the black man in cuffs was in front of him. (Or it appears that he’s in cuffs too). No wonder Slater had such a shit-eating grin on his face when he was perp-walked out of his house.

@Signal to Noise: A little over ten years ago when I was getting sick of how my old non-profit environmental law firm was being run (legal skills declining while I served as half-time fund raiser, being passed over for managing attorney while flighty rich girl from New York got the gig*), the director walked in an said “do you expect to keep working here while you look for another job?”

“Yes,” I replied.

* Her parents were semi-major donors, apparently. She later blew a deadline on a NEPA case that I’d won the first time around (EIS remanded for further analysis and agency bias for the project) because she was going rafting and mountain bike riding all the time.

@Signal to Noise:
I thought my 45 minute “exit” interview where I basically ranted and shit on the entire “management” team at 120 decibels was going out in style.

She had wit rather than my foaming at the mouth.

@ManchuCandidate: My buddy who was over last night was telling us about when he quit as an insurance adjuster in the early ’60s. He said his supervisor spent an hour trying to get him to change his resignation letter in which he said he quit in part over protest of the firm’s promotion policies that had him advancing over a couple of black guys who were hired before him.

It’s old home week.

I remember Hedwig back when he was doing the show as Hedwig’s boyfriend, years ago, at Squeezebox. It slowly morphed into what it is now.

Grungy alternative Asian boys with tattoos and piercings. Yum.

Ever notice how Squeezebox always smelled like piss no matter where you were? Good times….

Rank and file don’t get to do stuff like this. They’re expected to agree to every atrocity thrown at them with a smile and then beg to be beaten unconscious and ass raped to death for their inability to sacrifice more for the advancement of the enterprise. Just an unexplained gap of a month or two in a resume sends your application into the hopper. Likely neither of these people will ever see another job. EVP to board level is where enterprise participants are allowed to have an emotional life.

@FlyingChainSaw: Directors are left alone, too. Its the great faux-title, useful to get you covered under the officers and directors policy, without giving you authority over anything.

@Prommie: I’d include them in that term. All true. Potency of directors tends to decrease in direct proportion to the size of the company.

I don’t have sound on this machine but the body language the Talibunny uses really screams school yard.

@FlyingChainSaw: I thought her body language screamed milk maid.

Perhaps she thinks she can literally milk a cash cow.

Finally watched that clip. Two thoughts:

1) Kathleen Gustafson is my hero. She was channeling her inner Al Franken in keeping the calm voice you use when talking to people in the psych ward or riding on the short bus, asking Palin to give specific answers, and it completely unhinged Talibunny.

2) What the FUCK was Talibunny wearing? Silky Adidas basketball warm up pants tucked into aquamarine galoshes with flowers or monkeys printed on them? I don’t think they sell that at Needless MarkUp in Minneapolis.

@SanFranLefty: Agreed on all points. But I wouldn’t waste good insults on someone living in Alaska wearing stuff you can cover in shit and mud and not care about.

@FlyingChainSaw: Does she really still live in Alaska? Seems like she spends an awful lot of time down in the Lower 48 flying by Learjet and drinking diet Coke through bendy straws, and leaving her kids up with the First Dude to get into trouble.

My take-aways, and one question:

1. Definite eye roll, with an overly dramatic shoulder shrug, hip sway, and other body language screaming”Oh, a teeeeacher, well there you go you lesbo commie stinquebug”;

2. SarPal has been in Boehner’s tanning bed (but now with Extra Milf!);

3. Those boots are fugly.

4. Who’s the skank wearing the camo hoodie, Pillow?

@SanFranLefty: She has to go back to provide a backdrop for her Fox appearances. And their native fishing franchise is really way too valuable as even a PR exercise to allow to let lie fallow.

@Nabisco: Yes, those teachers, who are all so edumakated with their book learning and such, and not letting the kiddos pray to Jeebus. I think that was daughter #2 – not the teen mom, the other one that was caught trashing an empty house with some friends.

Gustafson’s banner reminds me of the DaDa-esque “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” banner that was displayed outside of a Juneau high school, resulting in the 2007 Morse v. Frederick Supreme Court decision that limited free speech rights of students. Those Alaska theater students and teachers sure now how to make the eye-catching horizontal banners.

@Nabisco: PIRATES TJ/ How are your math skillz?

@Nabisco:

“SarPal has been in Boehner’s tanning bed (but now with Extra Milf!)”

She wanted a change of pace from Levi?

@Nabisco: Beesco, did you get my email about labor day? Yes, I said.

@Signal to Noise: Breaking: Whiteboard quitter a hoax. Stinque publisher very jealous.