Burn Baby Burn

"I'm hard on you because I hope you learn something." Don't you just love folks who attempt to justify their craptastic behavior by treating it as mentoring? When I was eight, my dad used to beat my ass with a 2 by 4 until I got the multiplication table right. I learned fast, I took calculus by the time I was in tenth grade, but I can tell you to this day, I hate math.