You Need to Cheat to Win.

He may be messed up, but he makes more sense than... what are you? What would you be called, with your valley girl speech and use of a perverse parody of the English language? The answer, of course, is McGooberrotic Spazatronus.

WARNING!! NON CHESS RELATED RANT!! READ NO FURTHER IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT!!

Life is NOT fair. At every turn, there is someone waiting to bonk you over the head with a 2 by 4--stab you in the back--steal your money--steal your wife--KILL you.Here in America, there are the haves and the have nots. Capitalistic societies like ours create a HUGE separation of classes. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The MAN always wants to keep you down and beats you back down if you try to rise up. They stack the cards against you. The MAN has legions of lawyers and policy makers writing laws and policies to benefit them at YOUR expense.

What can you do? Beat them at their own game, that's what. If it means "breaking the rules" DO IT. Now, I know there will be a lot of people here who would like to see me DELETED for making such a statement, and THOSE people are part of the problem. Can anyone say SUBJUGATION? I guarantee there is not one person here who has never cheated at one thing or another in their life. You can substitute cheating with stealing. From "forgetting" to take the calculator out of your pocket before you left work and then just keeping it, to NOT telling the fast food clerk that she gave you TOO much money back, to outright NOT PAYING for the food you eat on break because you work at a grocery store and rationalize it as a company "perk". No one in life is a saint.

Sometimes, in order to get ahead, rules MUST bent and/or broken. I choose to do both in life. I speed when I drive because it's all about ME. I want to get from A to B FASTER than you. My company is currently cutting my hours down to 35 per week from 40 just so MANAGEMENT can get a bonus at the end of the quarter for coming in under budget. Of course, management's hours are NOT cut, so in my world, THEY MUST PAY FOR THEIR GREED. If I somehow "forget" that I have a copy of INDESIGN (a graphic art program) in my briefcase and "accidentally" take it home and by some fluke this $500 program winds up on my hard-drive, well, huh, jeez, that's just too bad. If I "forget" to punch out for my lunch and then fall asleep in my car for an hour and a half but tell HR I only took a 30 minute lunch, well, um, I call that GETTING EVEN. They OWE it to me.

Hey, what's this? Hold on. How did this 1 GIG RAM stick get in my pocket? Well, I better install it in my comp, does no good in my pocket. Sometimes, no matter how HARD you try, no matter how much effort you put in, there will be SOMEONE waiting to chop you down...undermine what you are trying to accomplish. And you will fail. The truly successful people in life have not just STEPPED on other people's toes, they have CRUSHED them.

There is a saying that good guys finish last, and that saying exists because it happens more often than not. The hot blonde babe DOES NOT want the mild mannered, polite, door opening gentleman, she wants the bad boy rock star. She wants drama. She wants DANGER. I got sick of getting beat at chess so I resorted to cheating. Now I win. I'm the Rock Star. I'm a winner.

Most laws on the books BENEFIT the criminals. For example, if all forms of guns are banned, the law abiding citizens will turn theirs in (because they're law abiding) but the criminals wont (because they're criminals). An evening walk in the park = MUGGED. You need to level the playing field. That's why I carry a little paperweight in my pocket whenever I go out. Never mind that this brass paper weight is in the form of brass knuckles, but you can NEVER allow anyone to get the upper hand, or a victim you will be.

Lie, Cheat, Steal? We all do it on a daily basis. There are times when it is inappropriate however. My rationilization is this. If there is no immediate victim, it is OK. Once, I witnessed an older, rather well-dressed lady drop $40 on the casino floor. She continued to walk around the corner and was gone. I needed the money more than she did. There was no one around and I could have easily stepped on it, bent down to tie my shoe, and BAM, be $40 richer. But I tracked her down and RETURNED it to her. I do have a conscience. But, when there are BOXES of Flash Drives sitting in a corner at work, who gets hurt when one finds its way into my pocket? Who is the victim? AHHHH dont give me this CRAP that we're all going to pay for it through higher prices. Multi-million $$ corporations have deep pockets. They have gouged the public and their employees for years so that the shareholders can retire at 50 years old with a 30 million severance package and live in luxury in one of their 8 mansions across the globe. I dont think they'll miss a few items here and there. Do you?

I could go on FOREVER. But this post is getting a bit long. BOTTOM LINE: Act in your own self interest. Victimless crimes hurt no one. Do what it takes to get the upperhand and you'll be a winner just like me.