http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/b...pisrc=obinsite
For those of us who are assholes by habit rather than circumstance, there’s a vast storeroom of these experiences with which to grapple; the only bit of novelty on these occasions is discovering which random selection your bastard brain has chosen to bring forth. You may have been a drunk *******, you may have been an insensitive *******, you may even have been an accidental *******, but there is no getting around it: You were an *******.
yeah, that paragraph cracked me up. 'bastard brain' is a very evocative and wonderful description!