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"Another villain on the cover
Of every major magazine,
The victim somewhere in between.
See how they twist and shout.
And as I'm searching for the story,
Subscription card falls to the floor;
I'm losing interest more and more."

-- Villains, The Verve Pipe



I use Yahoo! a lot, for email, professional pursuits, weather checks, football picks...

It took me a long time to warm up to Yahoo! after using hotmail for so long. And while I still like hotmail, it's more like... OK. Their most recent redesign is yucky, and if I leave my computer on overnight, I can't just refresh my hotmail without completely restarting my computer.

So, instead of pretending to promote Yahoo!® (registered trademark, all rights reserved, notice: we collect personal information on this site), my point is that I recently noticed an ad running for some kind of schooling site. I paid little attention to the ad, as I do most ads, especially ones about continuing education. Been there, done that.

But for some reason I recently read the ad, and I was laughing my ass off.

So, you want to be a social worker, do ya? Admirable. A psychologist? Nice. Criminal investigator... counselor... teacher...


But a bounty hunter? A BOUNTY HUNTER???

I can't imagine explaining to my 6-year-old in 12 years that, no, I am not going to pay for years of college so that you can go out and accost bad people who are the most dangerous of the dangerous. AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN.

Like me, and my parents, and all the generations before, you are expected to go out and find a reasonable and safe profession to take care of your elders when we get old.

How about asbestos removal? Or window washing??