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Misc. Rants:
Posted by Scott,
February 2003,
The Force Arena “MILLER TIME NOT TO BE AT YHC As some of you are aware, I went to Young Harris Junior College for two years. I met individuals there that have become friends for a life time through our fraternity; Upsilon Delta Sigma. Every day, I yearn for those glorious days of freedom and fun. However, once my class left YHC, many things transpired that I did not agree with. My disagreements with the recently fired President of the school alone were so volatile I was removed from the alumni mailing list. Well, it appears as though the school continues it's downward spiral away from the unique place that it once was. While I am no fan of Zell Miller, I am truly surprised at a former teacher of mine; Dr. David Franklin. Credit goes to www.ajc.com.” Tim Enloe,
May 2004,
The Force Arena Miller rules out return to Young Harris College By Bob Kemper, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Published on: 05/21/04 WASHINGTON - A day after saying he would love to return to the classroom following his retirement from the U.S. Senate, Zell Miller on Friday ruled out returning to his hometown school because a professor there criticized him over the prison scandal in Iraq. Miller wrote to Paul Beckham, chairman of the Young Harris College board of trustees, saying a note he received Friday from history professor David Franklin “makes it abundantly clear that I would not be, shall we say, warmly welcomed.” Franklin, whose wife Louisa is the college’s academic dean, wrote to Miller condemning the treatment of Iraqi prisoners by U.S troops and criticizing Miller for not speaking out against it. He also criticized Miller’s support for the Georgia lottery to fund the HOPE scholarships Miller created as governor, calling it “legalized gambling” to support a “dying” program. “You, Zell Miller, are a disgrace to your city, your county, your state and your country,” Franklin wrote. “Your attack upon the U.S. Senate that you sit in now was so unpatriotic it boggles the imagination.” Miller, a Democrat, hascriticized the national Democratic Party and endorsed President Bush, a Republican, for re-election. Franklin said he is a Democrat. Writing on his personal stationery to Beckham, Miller, a Young Harris graduate, responded, “I have long put up with this kind of vitriol in the political world but I am not going to at my alma mater.” In an interview, Miller added, “I'm not going where I’m not wanted.” Franklin said his disagreement with Miller is philosophical, not personal. Miller’s term ends in January. He said Thursday that he would like to return to teaching and writing, though he has not talked even informally with any particular schools about a job. Miller taught at Young Harris and the University of Georgia before joining the Senate, and both schools said they would welcome him back. Fat Whore Neighbor Our next-door neighbor is a fat whore. You see we live in a townhouse. Rhonda and I thought it would be a good stepping-stone from apartment to a regular house. We like the convenience of living in an apartment, but we were not ready for the maintenance of a house yet, so we decided on a townhouse. Oh yeah, back to our neighbor. Well, she is a fat whore. No really - she is a fat whore. She is from someplace around Eastern Europe or maybe Greece or some place that breeds fat whore neighbors. Her name is Lesbia. Now I know that she may be from another country that speaks some screwy language, but how could her parents miss something like not naming your kids after a sexual preference. Lesbian, Lesbos, Lesbia - all of these words only bring up only one image. No matter what the language! Well, my fat whore neighbor Lesbia often has these loser guys over for the night. I think she meets them on the Internet. I guess the loser perverts see her name and think WOW, but then they find out that she really isn’t a lesbian that likes to have sex with loser guys from the Internet, but really just a fat whore neighbor. I wouldn’t mind that Lesbia, our fat whore neighbor, screws these losers that she meets on the Internet that are really looking for a lesbian that likes to have sex with loser guys, but Lesbia has this problem with walking through the only yard in the world we own. We have about 7 feet of yard from my front window to the parking lot and she walks from her door, between my kitchen window and my truck, and then to the parking lot while stepping on our few struggling plants. Lesbia, our fat whore neighbor, walks from her townhouse to her fat sister’s townhouse a few doors down. Lesbia’s entire family lives in the complex. I don’t understand why they didn’t buy some land and build a few houses on it. Then they could have fat whore parties all the time instead of getting in my way. Lesbia, our fat whore neighbor, also likes to use the valuable and limited parking in front of our townhouses to let some of her loser friends, that are looking for a lesbian but have settled for a fat whore neighbor, park their cars for days at a time. I think Lesbia believes that she is entitled to as many parking spots as she pleases. I am all for Lesbia rights, but she really has pushed it to far. I don’t know what to do about my fat whore neighbor. If you come over to visit Rhonda and me please park in front of our fat whore neighbor’s townhouse. I really want to piss her off. Note: I do not have a problem with fat people. I love fat people. I have fat friends. My problem is with the fat combinations. Combinations like people that are fat and lazy, fat and on welfare, fat kids, people that are fat that complain about medical problems, fat people that blame their fat on their genetics or glands, and of course the fat combo I hate the most is the fat whore neighbor. Posted by Scott,
October 2003,
The Force Arena I Blog For A Livin’ Working on a day like this is nothing short of criminal! 70 degrees, sunny, with a nice breeze and I am optimizing web sites for the search engines. Hey, I love my job, but I would love even more to be sitting in a hammock in the Florida Keys banging out my web log for a living. In fact I am actively seeking work as a blog writer. But there is a problem; there is not a lot of work in the blogging field. I don’t understand why either. Am I not performing a useful service to millions of people everyday (actually about a dozen a day, but the word million strokes my ego more than the word dozen)? Am I not helping make the economy better? Don’t answer that until you look at the algorithm that explains how my blog is part of the Bush Economic Recovery Plan. Am I not helping to educate the youth of today that will someday become the leaders of tomorrow? Again this is explained in my very complex algorithm. An algorithm I would show you but it is full of numbers and charts and is really very dull, but you can trust me that it’s all in there. So, with all the joy that the Gecko Tales web log brings to the world why shouldn’t I get paid to blog? However, I am afraid that no one will see my genius and hire me to blog, so I have begun to seek alternative ways of gathering funds. One is through donations from generous people like you. I have even started working on an ad campaign to help raise awareness. I have contacted Sally Struthers agent, but have not heard anything yet. I believe Sally would be an excellent spokes person for my cause. The commercial would open with a tired and weary me sitting in a dark, windowless office creating spreadsheets. Then the camera would pan out and we would see Sally with a very sad look on her fat face. As a tear rolled her plump cheek she would go into her spill about helping to get me out of an office and into a hammock. “... for what it cost to feed one starving Ethiopian child you can support Scott Thompson and the Gecko Tales web log. It doesn’t mean that much to a kid that is only going to grow up in a God forsaken land, but it means everything to this man stuck in his office.” Did you just feel that tug on your heart? I did, or maybe that was my barbecue lunch. I don’t know, but you have to admit the commercial has huge potential. If my ad campaign doesn’t fly I might push for a blog tax. I know what you’re thinking. A blog tax! Not another tax! But wait. I have a plan that will actually help you save money on taxes each year and fund blogs, so hear me out. The kids don’t get that much out of the public education system, so why not cut funding to the schools and send some of the money to worthy blogs. If you doubt that the schools are wasting money just watch the news. All of those really stupid people that you see nightly, they all are products of the public school system - need I say no more? So, by cutting funds to the public schools we can all save money on taxes and support worthy blogs like mine. I ran the numbers and I found that I will be able to operate my web log for a very reasonable $150.000 a year. This is really a bargain when you consider what else the government is spending money on each year. Your tax money! Please help to get me out of the office and into a hammock, so that I can bring you even more thought provoking works of literature (stop laughing, this is no joke!) each week. Who else is going to bring you unique perspectives on current news like the story about the two headed baby and Satan locking up PCs? Remember that for what it cost to feed a starving Ethiopian you can support this blog. If this all goes as planned when people ask me what I do for a living I can tell them I blog for a livin’. Posted by Scott,
March 2004,
The Force Arena “PRINCE IS...BACK? “I have been a Prince fan since I was a teenager back in the days of ‘1999’ and ‘Purple Rain’. Every since then, I made it a habit to buy the latest Prince album as I always knew it would grow on me. However, as time progressed and the albums built up, it seemed as though fewer and fewer tracks entertained me. This past month, Prince released his most recent piece of work ‘Musicology’. Yes, I bought it, but am not too impressed. While many critics have hailed this album as a ‘comeback’, I am not too sure. Maybe these same critics are just tired of listening to the just-add-water-and-a-belly-button-ring American Idol contestants. A few songs are definite replays, but the majority just don’t do it for me. Let me stress one thing, however. Time and the repeat button can make one changes his opinion. I will let you know what I really think in a year. On a side note, I do recommend picking up Prince’s ‘Crystal Ball’ from a few years back.” Tim Enloe,
May 2004,
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