Things I’m sick of — A List

A generic graph meant to prove nothing but to demonstrate that the abiding theme here is decline.

This is in no particular order. It is not intended to be parallel in terms of equivalencies. Some items of greater significance are marked with an asterisk. Some guilty parties will be named more than once in different contexts. There will be overlaps. Eventually, I’ll post about all of these and others that strike me; I may, on no particular schedule, revisit the list provide links to the posts that address them specifically.

Loutish Attire

Foul Language

People, especially youngsters, who don’t know how to eat

Marijuana promoters

Leftists of all stripes

Conservatives of most stripes

Scientists

Smartphones

European movies and television

American movies and television

Stupid people who think they’re smart

“Undocumented immigrants”

Contemporary automobiles

The mass-produced, freeze-dried, Martha Stewart cookie-cutter version of the American Dream

Girls

Boys

Women

Men

Tattoos

Racists and Racialists of every kind

Atheists

Professional “skeptics”

Twitter

The Ivy League

High school kids

Modern fiction

All popular music

The female preference for “bad boys”

Body piercings

Absolute medical pronouncements

Lawyers, all of them

Elementary school teachers

Newspapers, all of them

Sex, especially its practice and depiction

Google

Advertising, particularly excretory/hygiene products, prescription drugs, and athletic gear

Omnipresent discussion and filmic obsession with pissing and shitting

Pandemic innumeracy

The word “bored”

Local news broadcasts

Telemarketing

Facebook

Facemasks

Trans Genders

Professional Sports Teams

Cable and network news broadcasts, all of them

Recycling

Chess

Video games

Protestant denominations, most of them

Psychologists

Federal bureaucrats, including the paper pushers at the FBI

Motivational speakers

Abortion Activists

Professional Wrestling

Social Workers

College students

Late-night talk shows

Acronyms

The British Commonwealth nations, all of them

Sitcoms

FM radio programming

“Experts” in general

The Empty Man