Sleazy Bag O' Douche.

I should be the last person in the world talking about sleaze. (Hi, obsessed with celebrities and pop culture, how ya doin', nice to meet-cha.)

Here's the thing though, at least for me personally. You see all the weird goings-on on your TV set and you hear about it from people, so you laugh and think "That's ridiculous. I can't believe anyone would do/say that!"

Of course, then you actually meet a perfect embodiment of sleaze and douchebaggery, and all I can do when faced with such a situation (after seething a bit) is wonder how people like that function in the world. Unfortunately, they're usually high up on the power ladder. But that just means it's even more frustrating when they're NOT.

So you're good-looking (subjective, though).

So you've got a good job (assuming you're not lying/exaggerating about it).

So you're intelligent enough to (occasionally) get out a decent sentence, devoid of any grammatical mistakes (.....very, very occasionally).

Dude, you're still a douchebag.

(can you tell this is personal yet?...)

They usually pride themselves on being honest, being "real", and are just "telling it how it is."

Yeaaaaaaah, no.

DOUCHEBAG. Clear as day.

Sorry.

But backing up a totally insensitive/cruel/blasphemous/heartless statement or comment by adding "I'm just being myself, other people can suck it!" (or the equivalent) does not and WILL not (EVER) make people admire you and think highly of you. And you can argue, as they so often do, that it's not your goal in life to have people think highly of you, or that you have better things to worry about.

There is a difference between expressing your opinion, and spewing out shit for the hell of it without having any sort of intelligent explanation, hoping that someone somewhere will agree with you. A very big difference.

And I'm not saying I'm always rational when it comes to expressing an opinion. Take my ...let's call it "disdain"...for Miley Cyrus. Irrational, for sure. And anyone reading what I've said about her (jokingly or otherwise) would think I'm a horrible, horrible person, and I wouldn't say anything against it. But do I actually wish her any physical harm? No, of course not, I don't wish that on anyone. No matter how annoying.

You can choose to believe me or say I'm full of crap- it doesn't matter. My point is (...fine, not gonna lie, I lost my train of thought somewhere in the middle of the above paragraph. Writing on the spot doesn't always make sense, OK? Especially when it's for cathartic purposes.) ....we all have our own ways of viewing the world as it is presented before us. And I suppose nobody really has the right to tell you what you should or shouldn't be doing/saying.

But.

I will judge you if you go around thinking your words are the epitome of wit when in fact they just emphasize your ignorance about what it means to be a good person, in the most basic sense of the term.

Just...try to be good, ok? You don't have to be perfect, because nobody can be that. You don't have to be a saint. But when you stop trying to be good, you stop realizing the bad things you do/say are actually, truly "bad"; then I think you're in trouble. You gotta have that gauge, you know?

That's that.

It's one of those roundabout arguments- You judge, I judge, we all judge, we all win, we all lose.

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Til the next blah blah blah! Be good!