MORE OF MY NAGGING ABOUT WRETCHED EXCESS

Jared Diamond writes this brilliant piece in the Sunday Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

And speaking of this Sunday's P-G, a reader complains about what she perceives to be a declining quality of the newspaper.

May I humbly suggest letting the cheeky and also brilliant (in a worldly way, the best way of all possible ways to be so) Dennis Roddy write a column?

Male customer punches female drive-thru employee

From today's Post-Gazette, Dennis Roddy has some fun at the expense of a man who punched a woman because he wasn't happy with her "attitude" at a local Wendy's.

A Penn Hills man's beef with a drive-through clerk at Wendy's ended in a
knuckle
sandwich and police promptly served assault charges for dessert.
"He wasn't
happy with the girl's attitude. Something with the fact that
she didn't say
please and thank you and wasn't pleasant in general," said
Penn Hills police
chief Howard Burton. That, according to police, is when
Duane L. Williams, 46,
added new dimensions to the concept of hitting on the
waitress.
Because nothing makes for good copy like mocking an assault.

Here's my question. How old was this young woman working in the drive-thru? It says she wasn't seriously injured. Hello? Someone punched her at work. Maybe she doesn't have a black eye, but you don't just shake that off and serve up some more fries. I did note that Penn Hills Police Chief Howard Burton refers to her as a "girl" several times. Do you think he has a poker night with Nate Harper and George Trosky?

Nope, the story has nothing to do with the victim, the crime or even the assailant. The story is the stupid restaurant humor.

I guess when it comes to working at the drive-thru, she can bring home the bacon and fry it up in the pan. But she never better forget who is the man ...