AIG....Crow sandwiches...bitter washed up newsies..

The St. Paddy's parade runs one block from my front door, I would be derilict in my duties if I failed to record the derilicts at thier duties during todays parade. Those duties will include but are not limited to, throwing up in a gutter, getting beat down by other revelers or the police, making a total ass out of ones self, the list goes on. Actually, the real action will take place later in the day, I'll try to be there as the hoardes descend upon my beloved midtown. In the meantime there are a few things I need to get off my chest before risking life and limb, who knows I may not make it back in one piece.

AIG

"We cannot attract and retain the best and the brightest talent to lead and staff the AIG businesses — which are now being operated principally on behalf of American taxpayers — if employees believe their compensation is subject to continued and arbitrary adjustment by the U.S. Treasury,” so says Edward M. Liddy, the Captain of this ship of fools. I on the other hand say, "are you fucking kidding me?" Considering the fact that AIG stock has fallen 99 percent, considering the fact that these ass hats were on the brink of collapse a few months ago, not to mention that we, all of us are footing the bill to keep them afloat, I'd say he might want to reconsider that Best and Brightest bullshit. I'm not buying the whole contractual obligation line either. These are performance bonuses, frankly, they should take 99 percent of these dick heads pay for screwing the pooch in the first place.

Alonzo Washington

I've been plenty vocal in my criticism of Alonzo, and I'm not about to retract anything I've said. That said, I'd be a total nimrod if I failed to give credit where credit is due. Alonzo managed to get Shaun ( I killed my wife ) Pernice to go on record. Pernice comes off sounding like a cross between Drew Peterson and Eb from Green Acres. Note to self: if I'm ever the main suspect in my wifes murder, and Alonzo's name pops up on my caller I D, do, not, answer, the phone. I can't believe I'm saying this but, nicely done Alonzo. Now that thats out of the way we can go back to disliking one another.

Hearne (with the Ryan Seacrest hair) Christopher

Bitter much? Where do fired middle aged lippy hipsters go when they find themselves jobless? To the local blogosphere of course. Yeah I know, the guy is a journalist or whatever he is calling himself these days. I think Hearne is going to be a natural as a blogger. He has already displayed the three traits necessary to be a good blogger, Petulance, Over inflated Ego, and a penchant for talking out of his ass. He might want to tone down that holier than the lowly blogger attitude. Newsflash Hearne, you are one of us now, like it or not. Just because you slap a couple of flash ads at the top of your blog, drop names, and smile out of the side of your mouth with a practiced and cheesy flair, doesn't change the fact that you get fewer hits than the buffet line at an anorexic convention luncheon. Hearne attempted to elevate himself by flapping his pie hole about bottom line's reporting on the Star's latest round of layoffs. He referred to them as "a wannabe news site".

Lately the "wannabe's" of the KC blogosphere have scooped the star and every news station on a fairly regular basis. Love him or hate him, Tony's Kansas City has covered city hall and the twin terrors Funk n Glo far better and well ahead of the local media. Alonzo Washington, (damn there I said it again) managed to cop an interview with Shaun Pernice, and Bottom Line has covered the implosion of the Star. Not bad for a bunch of wannabe's . To steal a line from Training Day, "you a long way from Starbucks homie", in other words, drop the pretence douche bag, you are just another obscure blogger now. If you were all that and a bottle of hair gel, you would still have a job, just like your betters at KC stINK .

Okay, I'm done.