Breaking News: My Head Is Up My Butt!

More than two years after its debut, my Dickhead of the Week posting about former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson continues to get (and play!) the hits. But for once, anonymous has aimed his (or her!) observational sites not on my writings about Rex but on my brief aside regarding Halliburton's CEO David Lesar. Anonymous comments:

If "CEO of Halliburton ... profiting off the death and destruction of soldiers and civilians alike." is true, then all the construction workers over there making $10 to $30 and hour are doing the same thing. As well are the folks back home who work for companies that make products that are used by soldiers over there. If you took your head out of your butt you could see that.

You really told me, anonymous! Sing it anonymously from the rafters!

OK, so seriously, anonymous (if that is indeed your name). You're going to anonymously (i.e. cowardly) defend Halliburton? You don't see an enormous difference between working people doing a job and the executives who determine where their profits come from?

And you don't find it outrageous that Halliburton is paying "$10 to $30 and hour" (if we assume your information is more accurate than your word choice) for the truly dangerous work being done in a war zone, while the CEO sits in the safety of his office and builds his personal fortune on their backs and, yes, from the death and destruction of soldiers and civilians alike?

Ah, well. I guess my head is up my butt for not pretending that CEOs and working people are totally the same.