"What's Wrong"

“What’s wrong?”

I was having a bad day, stemming from a fairly stressful weekend. I was not my usual fun-loving self, and my co-workers noticed. One of them had the misfortune to ask me directly. In no particular order, here’s what’s wrong as I see it:

- The designated hitter rule in baseball.
- The wearing of spandex by anyone over the age of thirty, over the 200 pound mark, or by anyone other than the most elite of athletes. The rest of us don’t want to have to look.
- Mohawks. Do I have to elaborate?
- Political campaigns that last longer than one year. This one for the 2008 presidency has lasted over 21 months.
- While I’m at it, spending millions upon millions of dollars for a job that doesn’t even pay half a million and has mandatory retirement after eight years is wrong.
- This will be unpopular, but having a hockey team in any town that can’t produce ice outdoors is wrong.
- Paying more for gas than anyone else in the country is wrong. We’re at $2.99 a gallon at the time of this writing.
- Michael Jackson is wrong. On more levels than I can describe.
- Spending BILLIONS of dollars on a military solution to the issues in the Middle East is wrong. So is wasting the lives of thousands of US soldiers. If you have to, pick one fight, WIN IT, then move on.
- Robocalls to announce the virtues of the same candidate 8 times between the hours of 6 and 9 pm is wrong. And yes, that was the count tonight.
- Beer flavored with cherries, limes, lemons, oranges or other fruits.
- Coffee that takes longer to order than it does to drink.
- A library of the collected papers of George W. Bush.

So now it’s my turn. Let me ask you a question: What’s wrong?

Leave me a message, I’d love to hear your opinion.