The Airing of Grievances (Doc's)

Ok, in the great tradition of Seinfeld Vin and I celebrate Festivus (here is a link for those not familiar) each year. Vin has a party complete with a pole and we go through all the holiday essentials. Here we will share one of these with you. It's called the airing of grievances. Here we will list all the things that got under our skin, made us mad, or generally ticked us of this past year:

Shane's Grievances:
(the following ticked me off in 2007)

- Anna Nicole Smith and that stupid Judge in the case over her body Larry Seidlin


- The leading news story on the day my son was born was Paris Hilton being pre-maturely released from jail and then put back in the slammer.


- The worst TV commercial on earth is for a crappy website called salesgenie.com that makes it seem that the only way your daddy will spend time with you and get you a puppy is if you subscribe to their sub par product


- Nobody believed me that Michael Vick was a big ole turd of a human being until this year, and sadly some still don't.


- Why was Rodney King still in the news in 2007?


- It stinks that we all know who Richard Jewell was for the wrong reason when he died earlier this year.

- The following people really annoyed me in 2007: (in no particular order) Rachael Ray, Nancy Grace, Robb Thomas of Matchbox 20, Tom Tancredo, Lindsay Lohan, Both Don Imus and Al Sharpton, Kanye West, Dick Cheney, OJ Simpson, Miss Teen SC USA, Donald Trump, George Bush,Tim Tebow, Rudy Giuliani, Whoever invented Head On, Ann Coulter, Terrell Owens, Al Gore, Fidel Castro, Sanjaya Malakar, Mike Nifong, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Bill O'Reily, Karl Rove, Rosie O'Donnell, Larry King, Ellen DeGeneres and that stupid dog named Iggy

- Even though I am sure it's good for the environment I am sick and tired of hearing about "Going Green"

- Wal - Mart (the closest thing to the Third Reich in America)

- The furnace in our house that was working just fin when we turned it off in April but somehow broke 2 expensive parts during it's period of non-use until November.

- The hype over PS3, Wii, I-Phone, and Halo 3 (BTW- the hype over Harry Potter is worth it)

- Why the heck is Survivor still on the air - No one has watched that show since they were in Australia how many years ago?

- The coverage that the media gives to individuals like the Virginia Tech shooter that encourages other unstable people like the Omaha Mall shooter to do things "to make it big" - Shameful

- MRSA staph infections and lead laced paint in toys from China

- My sports teams: NY Mets managed the biggest end of season collapse in history, The Carolina Panthers season = down the drain when Jake Delhomme had to have Tommy John surgery, Florida State continued to stroll down the avenue called mediocrity, and Jeff Gordon managed to score more points than any driver EVER has in a 36 race season and still get beaten for the championship.... Here's to a better 2008 for all of them.

- Is it just me or is there anyone else out there who wishes that the UF campus police had tasered Andrew Meyer until his hair had fallen out and skin turned black. That dude's 15 minutes should have been up a long time ago.... and now YALE has given him the quote of the year honor.... Yeesh.

- Senator Larry Craig's steadfast admission that he isn't gay... Uh buddy no one really cares if you are or aren't gay (except maybe some homosexuals whose rights you consistently vote against) just stop with the lies about what went on in that bathroom stall. Who the heck uses a nasty airport restroom like that anyway unless its an real emergency and if it's an emergency then who is taking notice of the others in the stalls around them??? No one thats who... By the way, whether you are gay or not if you are peeking into bathroom stalls at an airport you have bigger problems than keeping your senate seat.

- Teenage girls who pronounce words with that valley girl accent... example when they pronounce the word pants like they are saying the word "wants" ie. ponts... ya'll know what I mean.

- Dora the Explorer and Go Diego Go. Our kids should not have to learn Spanish to live in our own country and both these cartoons express that opinion... AND I am pretty sure that the monkey boots is actually the same voice as Diego. Frauds I tell you... FRAUDS!