It just doesn't make sense

Yesterday, I told my supervisor that what his boss wants to do is a stupid idea. I laid out the reasons why and explained that it had been done before and was a disaster back then - to repeat it would be a mistake. So, during the staff meeting this morning, we were all informed that I would be in charge of that particular project. Can I just walk out now and say I am done? I have seriously had enough of these childish games! I mean really... the level of stupidity around here has reached an all-time high. I don't know how much more I can take.

Actually, you are wrong, but don't let me keep you from your ignorance...

One of the many things that drives me crazy is when people use quotes out of context. I mean, really! If you try hard enough you can use other people's word to prove just about any point. I see this done with the Bible all the time. Lately, though, I have heard several people use the same quote and each time they used it to mean the same thing - not what the author meant however. The quote I am referring to is "Ship's passing in the night," from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Solitude. People seem to use the phrase to talk about failing to connect with someone (e.g. an older woman comes into the office looking for one of my co-workers... I tell her "oh, you just missed her, she stepped out for a minute." The woman replies, "we are like ships passing in the night."). I was sorely tempted to correct her mistake, but I just smiled and bit my tongue. Longfellow was not talking about missed connections (as it is listed on Craigslist.com), but rather how our relationships on earth are fleeting - there for a moment, and gone just as quickly as they came. Read the whole verse for yourself:

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

18-year-old male stupidity has no gegraphic limitations...

It seems that no matter where they are located on the globe, 18-year-old males are universally prone to doing the dumbest things! In Australia, one such young man decide to play chicken with oncoming vehicles on Melbourne freeway. Not only was he not in a vehicle, he was barely even dressed, sporting only his underwear! He managed to live through the ordeal, but he was hit by a four-wheel drive vehicle and is currently in the hospital.
(Click here for Reuters article)