Why?

Why is my ex boss such a moron? Why are *all* my ex bosses morons? Is it me? I am now the boss, and I am wondering if my people will think I am as stupid as I have thought my bosses have been. It is a worry! This last boss has been on my case about writing up a paper of the work that I completed while working for him. Well I didn't have all the information, I was waiting to get data from another group, now he has decided that the guy who preceeded me, there were 2 years between us, and I should combine our data to produce one paper, instead of two separate ones. Well fine, ok, whatever. But then he has the nerve to send me the outline of this paper. He has to be joking! There isn't a journal in the world that will print a paper with 10 figures!!!!!! He tells me that my figures are the first 4, ok great, but then at least two of the other 6 figures will include my data, will he be expecting me to generate those figures too? He also wrote to say that I was expected to write up my section of the paper, and get it to him as soon as possible. Well excuse me, but I still don't have the data from the other group, they were supposed to get it to me in September, here it is in December already and I am still waiting, and whenever I contact them about it they say, oh yes, the tech is away, she will get it done when she gets back! So here I sit waiting. While my brain dead ex boss thinks that I am procrastinating and not getting on with the work that he is expecting me to do! I dont know, maybe I am being unreasonable, but I just don't get where his head is at.