McBlog

At my house, we prefer to get our morning news from Robin Meade.  It wasn't always so.  Brad was always watching Soledad O'Brien and Miles O'Brien, no relation.  I can't stand them.  So, I'd always flip over to Robin.  She's funny, she's bright-n-smiley and she says "Good Mornin', Sunshine!"  I promise you that she's the only one who would say that to my grouchy ass in the morning, and its nice to hear.  Brad finally bent to my will and now loves her, too because she is Playboy-centerfold hot.  (I think in recent years all that hotness is maintained by countless dollars in plastic surgery, but whatever.  Media's hard)  While watching the lovely (and increasingly less animated) Robin this morning, I bore witness to a story that nearly made my brain activity come to a screeching halt.

Read the story at CNN 

The new Mirriam-Webster dictionary includes the word:
    

McJob

(mek jäb') n. a low-paying job that requires little skill and provides little opportunity for advancement   

McDonald's has gone and lost their damned minds over it.  They claim it is insulting to the people who work in the fast-food industry.  They want it removed from the dictionary.  

For one thing, Mickey D's, the thing that is probably MOST insulting to the people who work in the fast-food industry is how little they are paid.  Look...it's right there in the definition!

And for another thing, since when can a corporation, or anyone for that matter, protest the inclusion of a word in the dictionary?  What the hell is that about?  Is McDonald's a vocabulary authority all of a sudden?  Are we only going to record our history, culture and language in a way in which McDonald's approves?  If we allow this to happen, what's next?

I'll tell you.  Fat people will protest the word "fat".  It's offensive to them and obviously needs to be removed from the dictionary.  (I think I could get behind this movement, myself.)  Whiny people will oppose the word "whiny".  It offends them, and, well...they're whiny.  Whores will protest the word "whore", bitches, the word "bitch", and skanks the word "skank".  If a word like "skank" can be in the dictionary, why not McJob?  The dictionary shouldn't have to be politically correct.  It should just be.  I'm not saying that the American vocabulary hasn't taken a steep decline.  It is what it is, though.

Later, while I was Simming in a world I can make sense of, President Bush held a press conference in the Rose Garden.  I presume it was for something important and Iraq or nookyuler-related, but all I really caught was the part of the conversation that was about beef.  It struck me funny, I guess.  Something about opening up the beef market to some other country.  I can't even find a story about that particular moment in the press conference to bring you any solid information on what the eff he was talking about.  His pro-beef argument was something like "They'll like it.  It's good for them."  What?

Also big news today, the knock-down-drag-out between Rosie O'Donnell and Elisabeth Hasselbeck on "The View".  I don't watch "The View".  But I SOOOO wish I had've been yesterday.  Brad says its like wrestling for women.  I suppose.

I reckon that's all for now.  Working on a man blog, girly-girls.  ;)