If it makes you feel any better, my Dad is an A-Hole too - always has been - used to beat the crap out of me and my brother. Now I've left home, he's a valuable example of how not to be, how not to parent etc etc. Helps keep me grounded, and if the day ever comes that someone says I'm like my Dad, that's the day to end it all or take very serious corrective action....
Your options are either the head-down / leave home route, or to fight back. Although I can't recommend it, my Dad's attitude shifted considerably when I got bigger than him, and hit him when he threatened me. I am simultaneously proud and ashamed of that...
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