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So we’ve got more idiotic government employees in the news again. And this time, it’s a doozy of a story!! Booze, babes, language that’d make a sailor blush! Click here for the story in our own local Columbus Dispatch.

According to the Dispatch, Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann’s office cultivated an atmosphere that sounds very similar to the environment one sees in the movie “Animal House”, with “… staff members in adjacent work areas shouting obscenities toward each other …” and “… a casual work environment that often extends into alcohol-lubricated evenings in which work and personal lives blur.“

Evidently Marc Dann has a potty-mouth and he encourages those who work with/for him to also have potty-mouths in the workplace. As stated in the Dispatch, “Dann’s defenders said the occasional use of profanity is typical for any office environment and that the attorney general is trying to encourage freewheeling dialogue.“

Freewheeling dialogue, people, in the same vein as an Eddie Murphy stand-up monolog back when Eddie was beyond profane and still very funny! Click here for an extremely R-rated clip of Murphy talking about his family cookout. WARNING - ADULT CONTENT (and VERY FUNNY).

And, as one would suspect, this free-wheeling, profanity-laced environment just further illustrates the problems we have when certain morons get into office and abuse their power. As if government’s reputation isn’t bad enough already - not factoring in the whole nepotism thing, which can sometimes help government - we have Marc Dann hiring his buddy, Anthony Gutierrez, as Dann’s general services director.

And evidently Gutierrez likes his booze. So much so that he allegedly came in to work one morning after a rough night of drinking and “… reeked of booze and vomit and boogers or vomit were hanging from his nose.” I solemnly swear I will never allow myself to get into a situation where I have hangover boogers or vomit dangling from my nose in public! Gutierrez told a coworker “… that he had been ’so drunk the night before at Easton that on his way home he must have fallen asleep and when he hit the state Suburban on a guardrail, that’s when he woke up.‘ ” Again, from today’s Dispatch.

Now let me remind you Ohio taxpayers that this exemplary government employee is on PAID suspension while a sexual harassment complaint is investigated. Is anyone surprised that sexual harassment charges came forth from such a “freewheeling” workplace?

The sad thing is that this mess just reinforces my sour view of government employees. And, yes, I am a government employee - I speak from experience here people!

You see, I believe that government tends to attract and retain the most mediocre of workers, because anyone with talent and skill and ambition will eventually tire of the BS one must put up with to get anything done in government and will eventually leave government to find real jobs! Yes, I believe I am a fantastically mediocre employee! In fact, I try to excel in my mediocrity!

But Marc Dann and his minions have taken government employee worthlessness to a whole new level! We’ve gone well beyond mediocrity here, beyond asininity, beyond laziness! We’ve reached a new plateau!

What shall we call it?

Let’s call it Gutierrez-anity!

Boozin’ And Swearin’ With The Best of ‘Em!!