I
will not be opening or reading ANY article about anyone or anything this year
that employs the following stupid and overused words or phrases:
1. “Weird
Trick”
2. “Flaunts”
3. “Rocked”
4. “Terrified” (as used in a context where no one
could possibly be terrified by whatever it is they are writing about; overly-dramatic
misuse of our language, over-exaggeration).
5. So and so “comes
out.” (A person’s sexual proclivities and sex life are or should be their own
business and not a matter of interest to the general public, as long as no
crimes are committed. I, for one, do not
need to know).
6. Anything
that “goes viral.”
7. Any comments
personally denigrating “libs,” any comments personally “smashing conservatives,”
any comments that are demeaning of the President
or his family (whether yours or mine). You may criticize policy or programs or
laws, but shut the hell up about the President as a person. Shut the hell up about the character or
intelligence of people who do not share your opinions, especially people you
don’t personally know. I guarantee you that many of them are smarter than you. Learn to listen. Our irrational hatreds are destroying our country from
within.
Also,
stories about people “they” keep shoving in our faces, especially people who
possess no claim or reason to be prominent or famous whatsoever:
1. “Justin
Bieber”
2. Either “Simpson”
sibling
3. Any “Kardashian”
(or Jenner)
4. Any “Lohan”
5. Any “Spears”
6. “Octomom”
7. “Duck
Dynasty” (who in the hell watches this trash anyway?)
8. Endless
coverage of crimes and “nothing-going-on right now” crime scene coverage,
especially when reported from hovering helicopters.
9. Photos of “baby
bumps” that have no other purpose but to show us the bump.
10.
News programs that do not report the news, that instead think they
ARE the news (this is almost ALL of them). I really do not need to be told
every few seconds that you “are holding the powerful accountable.”
11.
“Reality” TV
12.
Repeated showings of the same commercial. Even worse, the
consecutive showing of the same damned commercial back to back, or any commercial that tells me to "ask my doctor." Get out!
13.
Commercials that insult a person’s intelligence.
14.
Anyone or anything I’ve added to this list in the past.
These
things are illustrative of our dumbed-down popular culture. I wonder; when and how did we become such an ignorant, brain dead
species (?) Or is it simply that the ignorant and brain dead have “come
out.” I think Thomas Jefferson would be disheartened; he might
think that perhaps his worthy opponent and friend Adams might have been right after all.
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