• Bland, faceless, generic pop music.
• Self-consciously catchy pop music.
• The politics of frustration.
• Those horribly catchy J. G. Wentworth television commercials.
• Talk radio.

• People who don’t pick up their feet when they walk.
• Celine Dion.
• All that crap that networks like to put at the bottom of the screen. Animated promos for upcoming shows are especially irritating.
• LOUD cellphone ringtones.
• People who go around all day wearing telephone headsets and Bluetooth earpieces.
• Continuing to receive junk mail for people who haven’t lived here for several years.
• Having to pay postage due when someone sends me something without putting the correct postage on the envelope, but having letters I mail without sufficient postage being returned to me.
• People who make a big deal out of supporting something, but don’t actually do anything beyond saying they support it, or endlessly arguing with others about whether or not they actually support it, how much they support it, or why someone else doesn’t support it.
• People who make a fetish out of the cause they support.
• Things that work just fine until you start doing maintenance on them.
• Republicans.
• Democrats.
• The sports-page mentality that pervades just about everything.
• People who reach first for the sports pages when they read the newspaper.
• When the key won’t turn in the lock unless you pull it out just a hair.
• The higher cost of food that’s actually good for you. You’d think that *not* putting in all that extra crap and *not* processing things would actually save you money…
• Every single Vern Fonk Insurance commercial.
• When albums get remastered every few years. Unless it’s one of those albums that was reissued on CD in the early days of the format, when folks were still getting used to working with the medium, there’s really no excuse for not having gotten it right the first time.
• Badly remastered albums.
• Arrogance.
• People who camp out at the entrances to stores to sell you stuff or bug you to sign their petitions. I don’t accost you when you go to the store; why don’t I deserve the same courtesy?
• Internet paywalls.
• The Black-Eyed Peas.
• Glee.
• Craigslist job listings posted by companies who don’t bother to mention who they are.
• The media’s equation of the stock market with the overall economy.
• 3D movies.
• Bill Maher always seems to go on hiatus just when something happens that would make for great discussion on his show.
• Pretty much all rap after Public Enemy.
• White people with dreadlocks.
• Those “family” window stickers people put on their cars.
• Artists who perform on the Grammy Awards are more likely to win awards than the artists who don’t.
• Those “Baby on Board” signs are still around.
• The word “proactive”. The “pro-” prefix is unnecessary.
• The use of the word “issue” to mean “problem”.
• Lack of follow-through. If you’re going to promise something, make sure you actually deliver.

To be continued…?