Hollywood: The Land of Bonehead Actors and Lousy Screenwriters

My husband was watching the movie "The Martian" and I happened to catch a little of the dialog, which was, "In the face of overwhelming odds, I'm left with only one option: I'm gonna have to science the shit out of this."  I wouldn't be surprised if NASA scientists and the ghost of Carl Sagan weren't collectively cringing after hearing this horrible drivel.  Do they think this is clever writing, or are they just too damn lazy to write something good?  Why don't they just have the actors say, "Yada yada yada, rocket propulsion, blah blah blah, Mars, something, something, science..."  I've said it before:  I think Hollywood should just give up all pretense and film one of their over-paid, self-important "actors" to sit on a toilet for 2 hours.  It couldn't be any worse than this movie or most of the other garbage they keep churning out in order to separate us peasants from our hard-earned money.

Hollywood is the Land of Unicorn Farts

I'm sure you've seen the buzz about Meryl Streep and her 2017 Golden Globe speech in which she rakes Donald Trump over the coals but won't speak his name (she also berates MMA and football, but we won't go into that because it may tend to make her look like a deranged screwball).  I still remember Streep's ridiculous demand a while back that everyone buy a Prius to help save the environment, but because she's just another pig-ignorant celebrity regurgitating bullshit, she obviously isn't aware that (1) 67% of electricity in the U.S. comes from coal, natural gas, and petroleum, so how does driving an electric or hybrid car really help the environment, and (2) how on earth is everyone in the U.S. going to buy a Prius when one in two working Americans make less than $30,000 a year and a Prius costs almost $25,000?  Is Ms. Streep offering to buy everyone their own Prius, or at least subsidize those who can’t afford a brand new car?

I'd take celebrities and other Liberals a little more seriously if they would stand up for what is truly right rather than the "offense du jour" by the Republicans or Conservatives.  Where was the outrage when NDAA was signed into order? Where was the outrage when Operation Fast & Furious was exposed? The NSA spying scandal? Benghazi? The Iran nuclear deal and ransom?  The IRS targeting of Conservative groups?

Please don’t misunderstand – I did not vote for Trump, but I am sick and tired of Liberals acting like everything they do and say is A-OK but everything Conservatives do and say is barbaric and wrong.

Update:  A quote from an article in the Huffington Post titled, "Meryl Streep's Golden Globes Speech Belied An Inconvenient Truth About Hollywood:"

"Hollywood is willing to touch on the issue of disability without actually inviting any members of the community to partake in the conversation, according to New York Times best-selling author and disability activist Kody Keplinger.

“I couldn’t help rolling my eyes,” Keplinger told The Huffington Post. She’s a co-founder of Disability in KidLit, an online resource regarding the depiction of disability in children’s and young adult literature. “The applause in the room felt almost self-congratulatory.”"

This pretty much sums it up. It seems Hollywood is only willing to touch on the issue of disability, women's rights, global warming/climate change, endangered species, etc., when they can get mileage out of it. Afterward, they all go back to their mansions and figure out how they're going to spend all their money, and forget all about the peasants until the next time they need someone to exploit.

Horrible Bosses

For anyone who's had a really horrible boss, I'm sure you can all relate to the petty mind games, the undermining of your expertise or opinions, the taking credit for work that you've done, the overall deliberate sabotage of your reputation and value as an employee.  Below is a list of just some of the really shitty bosses I've had in my life, starting with the most recent:

Clinic Director
This guy is the Clinic Director of a Physical Therapy clinic, and though he has a few letters after his name, he couldn't manage his way out of a wet paper bag.  He's an insecure, antagonistic jackass control-freak who loves to play mind games with people because he thinks he's so much smarter than anyone else.  I should've known what a know-it-all douche he was going to be after I'd told him I'd worked at a couple of gold mines and I shared some interesting tidbits about gold and other minerals, to which he questioned my facts and arrogantly informed me that HE had minored in Geology.  Well, dickhead, the information I had was given to me by actual Geologists working for actual gold mines, not some educated idiot who only minored in Geology.  After months of scheduling problems that this asshole created himself, he tried to blame the scheduling problems on the staff.  I quit after he sent an email publicly flogging the staff for doing exactly what he told us to do.

Vice President & CIO
The CIO was so technically-retarded that he kept telling us that our jobs could be done "with just 5 clicks" of the mouse.

A very married Vice President (one of many) was sending filthy text messages (sexting) to any and every woman willing to have sex with him.  I especially liked the text he sent to a female technical recruiter in which he said he wanted to have her fuck him while wearing a Santa hat.  Merry Christmas!

Supervisor and Manager
Probably the worst two bosses I've ever had were a supervisor and manager who had the maturity of a couple of ten-year-olds.  They sat in their office giggling all day (when they weren't out of the office screwing off, which was often), and bragged about smoking crack and doing other drugs (I used to call them Beavis and Butthead).  The supervisor was the worst: pounding the back of my chair with his fists, kicking expensive electronic equipment because he was having a tantrum, threatening to fire people because he claimed we weren't doing what he wanted (but would never say what we weren't doing whenever we asked).  He got demoted (big surprise) and he told me it was my fault.  Yes, it was my fault that you're an asshole.  Where the fuck do they find these people?