Are people really this stupid?

If any of you know Pepe's Place, this post concnerns that. I'm on the mailing list for the site updates and Pepe just posted something rather shocking and disturbing: Apparently, someone, thought it would be OK to take her story, An Act of Pain (which is brilliant and you all need to go read now), and write a sequel to it without her permission. It was called "An Act of Compassion" and was apparently posted at the Alphagate. As if that wasn't bad enough, supposedly, it was completely un-betad and a horrible piece of shit. If any of you are on the list, you know it takes her months or even years to finish her stories. And they are worth that much time. That someone just decided to whip out this piece of shit thing in a day or two is so unbelieveably rude and....something, I just want to find whoever did that and bitchslap them. What makes people think they can do this? Is there no sense of etiquette or right and wrong any more? It's just so unbelievable rude, I don't know what to say. Luckily, the site it was posted on has taken appropriate action and the story has been taken down and I'm sure something said to the author, but stil.... I want to write back to Pepe, but I have no idea what. I just don't get it.

This day just keep gettings weirder and weirder....

Yesterday at work we had a luncheon thing for Staff Appreciation Day. We ordered Famous Dave's Barbecue - waaaaaaaaay yummy! So, as usual, we had a ton of food left over - 3-4 trays of roasted chicken, tray and a half of BBQ pork, a bunch of potato salad, coleslaw and baked beans, and two trays of corn muffins. Now, these aren't the little trays. These are the BIG catering trays that have a lot of food in them. So we box it all up (about 30 of those styrofoam take out boxes or so), but leave the muffins in their trays, cos they're still wrapped all nice and neat and take it all to the kitchen and put it in the fridge and stuff. We were going to put it back out today if anyone wanted for lunch and then maybe let people take some home if there was still some left. So, I go into the kitchen about 9:15 this morning to get a muffin cos I'm a little hungry. Yeah, they're gone. All the rest of the food is gone. WTF is that about? Why would people just take all that without being told it was OK? In the past, yes, we have allowed people to take leftovers home, but there has always been an announcement of some sort made to let them know it was OK. I just don't get it.

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I just made this header. Not quite sure if I like it. I've been wanting to do something with the lyrics on it - they're from a song by Train called "Save the Day." It just screams McShep to me. Anywho, should I use it?