I hate Perry Como.

Two things that made "justice-loving Mena" come out of the woodwork:

1. The boatload of spam I received today. The kicker? They were sent from a dollarshort address. If you've commented here, you probably received one or two as well.

Because of this, I spent about two hours looking up laws about spamming practices. Apparently, it is illegal to forge an actual email address for spam mailings in the jurisdiction of California. Although I doubt this little ant can move any sort of rubber tree plant, I certainly do not want to let this issue drop. Basically, I want to try to wreak mofo penal retaliation on those fools at TrafficBBS.

Yeah, good luck.

An ounce of prevention:

MT 2.0 has a tag attribute which will encode the email addresses posted on a site. Hopefully, this will be enough of a preventative measure for those who choose to post email addresses in comments. Being completely fed up with spammers, I just removed the email display on all past entries.

2. Heather losing her job because of her wickedly funny weblog.

Apparently posts like "Reasons The Asian Database Administrator is So Fucking Annoying" apparently did not bode well with her never-named employers.

You know the Twilight Zone episode (It's a Good Life) where Billy Mumy wishes "bad men" into the corn field? You know the one -- it's the best episode ever. Perry Como and bad Collies, jack-in-the-boxes and evil little boys.

Well, it's people like the anonymous tipster (who emailed the vice-presidents of Heather's company to inform them of her blog) who make me long for the power to wish bad people into cornfields.

And no, I don't think Heather would abuse that power.

Well, not that much. All in good fun, I say.

I'm thinking that a Dooce's Law is going to come out of this whole situation.

Comments

[nonasian]

K --- I was trying to express that firing that person who complained about the sneaky Chinese female was entirely wrong. The powers-then-and-even-now were aware of that. But they were also aware that they can get away with pretty much anything sitting on their money and power.

It was a much worse case that Heather's. On top of it all the fired person was also a foreigner. It was OK for them to use the country of origin of the complaining person instead of the name such as in "The Pole" but it was not OK for anyone to say The Chinese Female. As there were too many Chinese Females, that could be considered "generalization", "racism" - but there was only one who could be described "The Pole" (strictly behind-the-back of course). "Racism" is a very subtle issue, easy to play with, both ways.

Plus there was a little bit of favoritism on the part of the well-fed male supervisor - but nobody would have dared to testify and naturally no video tapes were made by "The Pole". It was not even nepotism as they were both married to someone else.

[R.]

(I think Mena handled the hecklers rather deftly. :)

[Brennan]

Apparently, the "Asian Database Administrator" in question not only doesn't take offense at Heather's comments, he helped her write them. If he doesn't consider it racist, anyone else who does seems pretty silly.

[np]

_apparently_

[k]

But we're looking at it from OUR point of view. In the view of the company and any stray employees who read her site, they are just protecting themselves. Some "asian/black/hispanic" worker who doesn't know Heather might read it and say, oh there's this person here at the company (now that they all know about it) who won't like me b/c I'm this or that. And then they can sue the company for a negative working environment. I don't like that Heather got fired, but I can see why the CEO felt it necessary to have her terminated.

[vis10n]

Linda... you wish is my command:

http://www.pseudodictionary.com/word.php?id=11145

[vis10n]

er... "your wish"