Nestle Sues Wysong for Having Prior Art

Today's douchbaggery award goes to the Nestle corporation. Several years ago, a small company called Wysong, based in Midland, Michigan, figured out a way to infuse probiotics into pet food. Several companies followed suit until 1999 when Nestle's Purina somehow managed to obtain a patent on the process. Now Purina is suing Wysong for continuing to sell something that they invented 15 years prior Purina's patent. This is nothing more than a case of corporate legal bullying. Let's hope that Wysong survives this fight with the Nestle Douchebag lawyers. This case represents all that is wrong in the U.S. patent system.

Honorable mention goes to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for their lackadaisical search for prior art when they so douchbagfully granted the patent to Purina.

Drug Store Douchebags

Today I passed up a CVS on my way home with the intent of stopping at my local Rite Aid for some Suphedrine to ease the symptoms of my cold. As the Suphedrine is not stocked on the shelves, I removed one of the cards from the shelf and proceeded to the pharmacy counter with the hopes of making a purchase. I walked up to the counter with no one in line in front of me. The three pharmacists were working away diligently. In fact, they were apparently so focused on their tasks that they were unable to even acknowledge my existence as I stood there for over five minutes.

After all that time no one was even able to utter a simple "One moment, sir." Obviously they have plenty of business and are in no need of taking any money from me. I would like to thank the workers at Rite Aid #4703 for so subtly letting me know that their store makes too much money. In these tough economic times it is important that we spend our money at those businesses where the workers are under utilized and have time to pay attention to customers.

Maybe the people at CVS, Walgreens, Target, K-Mart, Walmart, or my local grocery store, (boy, there are a lot of pharmacies, aren't there?) will have time to sell me a small box of medication.

Defense Douchebag Leaks Design Over P2P

Today I read a report on ZDNet that a government contractor has leaked design details of the president's Marine One helicopter over a peer to peer network. Apparently, someone installed a Gnutella client on one of the company computers which allowed avionics designs to end up on a computer in Iran.

The real question here is, who's the bigger douchebag? The user who installed the Gnutella client, or the IT Security Administrator who didn't restrict user access enough. The user should have known better considering they surely have some level of government security clearance. The Security Admin should have known even more so that users can't be trusted to just follow published policies.

California Mayor Resigns After Display of Douchebaggery

Earlier this week, the clueless Dean Grose, mayor of Los Alamitos, California, sent out a tasteless email in an ultimate display of douchebaggery. The email involved a cartoon showing the Whitehouse lawn replaced by a watermelon patch. The caption read, "No Easter egg hunt this year."

Grose further proved his douchebaggery by claiming to be unaware of the racial stereotype of black people liking watermelon. If he was unaware of the stereotype, then what was he trying to say with this email? What was it that made that cartoon funny to him?

Well, after realizing the major firestorm he started for himself, the illustrious mayor has decided to step down. Here's to you, Dean Grose! You've finally learned that racism is no longer acceptable in the United States. Now that you're not working as mayor you'll have plenty of time to coordinate some local cross burnings. D-Bag!