Andy Rooney can go suck an egg

You know what really sticks in my craw. No, it's not that the early bird special at Canter's ends before I finish my afternoon nap. And God knows I love their free pickles. No. It's old people.

First they were called "Old Folks." Then "Elderly." Then they decided that "Senior Citizens" was palatable. I really wish they'd settle on something.

I mean these people only have so much time left on this planet. So to argue this point as a way to fill time between watching reruns of Matlock and griping about bottled water -- well it just seems silly.

But then again when their spokesmodel Andy Rooney goes off like he did last night on 60 Minutes, I think I'd rather hear about the difference between Crystal Geyser and Evian.

I also think that it's time they consider changing their name again to "Senile Americans." That seems to fit just fine.

[Note: Emphasis is mine]

Every day, I read about how hard it is for a lot of people to find a good job. I'm skeptical of course, because I think if you know how to do anything, someone's going to pay you to do it.

The fact is, even with the economy getting better, good jobs are still scarce of course. I suppose a lot of companies are doing whatever they do with fewer people now. That's the American way, after all. What they make may not be any good but that doesn't bother them. A lot of companies are more interested in money than in their product.

I've been lucky most of my life, but I've been out of work a few times too so I know what it is like not to have a good job or enough money. Something's wrong though because there's so much work to be done everywhere in the world that there should never be any unemployment. The problem is, the theory assumes that a person who has been an executive, for example, would clean up debris by the side of the road for the county supervisor if he really needed a job. He won't do that of course because what he thinks he ought to be is the county supervisor.

They say that in most companies middle management people have been hit the hardest with layoffs, whatever "middle-management" is, and a lot of them are college graduates too who thought their degrees made sure they could get a good job.
Would it be a waste of education for someone who graduates from Yale for example, to become a plumber, an electrician or a bricklayer? We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.

More college graduates ought to become plumbers or electricians, then, go home at night and read Shakespeare.

Kinda makes you miss Charles Grodin, eh?