(Slightly) Grumpy Rant

I am nice person.  I always give people the benefit of the doubt.  I say I'm sorry or excuse me like I have Touret's.  I don't discriminate.  I donate money and clothes to charity.  Heck, I even gave a woman a dollar to buy a light-rail ticket when I'm fairly sure she was scamming me.  So here's my issue.  It turns out that people like me don't really finish first.  It's always the rotten people that get ahead.  Yes I realize this is a sweeping generalization but I warned you upfront it was a fairly grumpy post...

Exhibit A this week comes in the form of Robert Irvine.  For those who don't know him, he's the fairly buff "chef" on the Food Network.  I put "chef" in quotation marks because it seems he lied on his resume and never actually finished cooking school and hey, that time he said he worked for the queen of England?  That was a bit of an exaggeration...oops!  So he was fired, as he rightfully should have been.  But here's the kicker.  This is where I start to go a little batty.  It seems that his fans adored him and the network needed his "talent" so much, that he was re-hired within a few months of his dismissal.  Now, this week on his show "Restaurant: Impossible" he'll be preparing some feast or another with the First Lady of the United States.  How is this fair?!  There are thousands of other fully trained chefs in the US, that actually have illustrious careers and great personalities that could take on the hosting duties of a sub-par food show. But no, they needed Robert Irvine...

I've begun to notice this trend more and more (John Edwards, I'm looking at you!) but the seeing the promo for the new episode this morning was the straw that broke the camel's back.  The worst part is that there's virtually nothing I can really do to fix this.  Should I get meaner?  The truth is I can sing the praises of the "Screw It!" attitude from now to kingdom come but that's just not me.  I almost wish it was sometimes, but it's not.  I have high hopes that these people will be bitten by the Karma bug and finally get what's coming to them one day.  Although, knowing me, I'll probably apologize when it does happen...ugh!