Girl, we are on the same page. Thanks. Reading your post calmed me down.

BTW – I am poaching your image. Of course I will take it down if you wish and find another.

And what is Guitar Hero? I know it must be popular, because there was a South Park episode. Is it the sequel to Meerkat Manor?

That kid riding his bike down the middle of the sidewalk without a helmet while talking on his cell phone.

Cell phones.

People who use the word ’science’ as a voodoo spell to give their asinine beliefs a gloss of credibility.

Proud and defiant ignorance.

Guitar Hero.

Ecocentric publications printed in full color on glossy stock so that when they recycle it they need a lot of extra friggen’ bleach.

Big-government Republicans.

Right-wing Democrats.

People who make weird mouth noises.

The Rules.

Panhandlers who believe that you owe them some kind of explanation, or who respond aggressively to denial.

Tax-dodging plutocrats.

The diners have left and tucked under the father’s plate is a small card reading, “This is the greatest tip of all — the tip of Christ’s love.”

People who make up a pinheaded version of God and then attribute their imaginary beliefs to real people.

All that Easter Bunny/Santa Claus/Dead Guy On A Stick stuff that makes it so that you have to lie to children in order to avoid upsetting their parents.

Cars, sports, and lite beer.

Lite anything.

Prepackaged bands.

The way that our culture is being simultaneously infantilized, sexualized, and artificially sweetened. There seems to be a concerted attempt made at turning us into a population of candy-colored pina colada-flavored sexually active toddlers with earbuds.

Disrespect.

The sick realization that the reason you can’t get away from that damned song is that there are just oodles of degenerate pinheads so degraded as to listen to it deliberately.

War-criminal world leaders whose manifest incompetence, confusion, and misery inspires pity as well as rage.

“You can’t be too tan, too thin, or too rich.”

“It’s just a theory!”

Balanced reporting where an opinion based on solid information, research, and hard intellectual labor is placed on the scales opposite pernicious stupidity… and the scales balance.

When a live rhino is valued less highly than a nonexistent boner.

Jeez, I’m getting kind of dizzy here and my hands are shakey. I gotta start cutting back… maybe I’ll start tomorrow. In the evening, though — I mean, you need a little anger to wake you up in the morning, right?

•People who pass on the right.
•People who stop at the top of stairways, in doors, or right in front of me when I’m trying to get by.
•Kids who do dangerous things (there is a reason why even the most non-spanking parent will spank a toddler who’s started off running toward oncoming traffic.)
•People who don’t give you enough information to know whether you need to be worried or not.

I can seethe with the best of ‘em–which means you, right?