No, not all Bush’s fault. He had help in his first six years from the Radical Right. They collectively managed to dismantle the very regulatory agencies that were tasked with preventing financial disaster.
If you shoot your guard dog because he barks too much, you shouldn’t be surprised when your house gets burglarized.
Okay, dude, here’s the long and the short of it: You’re a geek. Women will reject you unless you have the wealth of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates or Scott McNealy.
Get used to it. The world will accept geeks running the world but it’ll never acknowledge the fact that actual geeks exist. For all intents and purposes technical people are Oompa-Loompas to the Pretty People of the world.
“They hate us because we can do stuff.”*
*What George W. Bush would have said had he been intelligent enough to recognize the importance of geeks in this world.
Yet another reason to write off the holiday season as being more stressful than it’s worth.