10 Things I Don’t: Like, Care For, or Want To Hear About…Lately

(1.) The Olympics.
(2.) A girl named Caylee.
(3.) John Edwards or anything having to do with him.
(4.) Cindy McCain.
(5.) Campaign Ads. There has got to be a better use for that obscene amount of money.
(6.) Middle East “experts” on TV—where do they find these idiots?
(7.) The media, pundits, and most journalists who are not doing their job.
(8.) Feminists who: (a.) contemplate voting for a man who would appoint social conservatives on the SC and who also called his wife a “cunt” (and he was not reclaiming it), (b.) refuse to see any other woman become VP besides Hillary Clinton, (c.) think they have a monopoly over the term “feminist,” (d.) write op-eds in the NYT, (e.) fail to see injustices that either fall outside of or intersect with gender disparities, (f.) are racist, orientalist, and sometimes even imperialist (stop invading countries to “liberate women” please—you only make it worse, you hypocrite!).
(9.) Christiane Amanpour and her “God’s Warriors” documentary. This documentary would have been interesting if it explored some social history of religious movements. But of course, Amanpour assumes religions just fall out of the sky—perhaps by some bearded God or even Morgan Freeman. The documentary does confirm one thing—that religious people need someone like Christiane Amanpour to show them just how insane many of them sound.
(10.) The fact that The Dark Knight is not out on DVD yet. I want to watch it again, and again.

This list is subject to change. Except for numbers 6, 7, and 8 which have an enduring quality of pissing the shit out of me.