Annoying Things in Current Affairs, the World, and the World of Journalism

Current Affairs and People in Politics
• Joe Biden
• Ann Coulter
• Superior vs. District vs. Circuit Court
• Unregistered voters (what are they undecided about?)
• The Reform Party
• West Nile Virus
• World leaders like Fujimoro of Peru and Vicente Fox, the new leader of Mexico, whose names don't match their countries
• The Ruckus Society
• Scientology, especially as a human rights cause
• Oliver North
• N.J. Governor Christine Todd Whitman, now, thanks to her handlers, is “Christy” to make her more appealing, which can never happen
• Anti-Vivisection and vegan organizations, especially PETA and their cookbooks and their www.jesusveg.com
• The US Congress
• The Year 2,000 Computer Bug or Y2K
• The NEA
• Orrin Hatch (see second mention under Annoying Humans section, ref "People Who Defy Explanation")
• Newt Gingrich
• Christian Coalition imp Ralph Reed
• Hindu pilgrims bathing in the Ganges
• Paula Jones
• All of Bill’s other babes
• Susan Carpenter-McMillan
• Babe Buchanan
• Roger Ailes
• Gary Bauer and the Family Research Council
• The Rutherford Institute, especially Paul Whitehead
• “Bibi” Netanyahu
• Perennial Maryland political candidate Ellen Sauerbrey
• Glendening vs. Sauerbrey
• Haley Barbour
• Kenneth Starr
• Lucienne Goldberg and lucienne.com
• Trent Lott
• The last New York State Senatorial campaign.
• Alan Dershowitz. Sometimes. Not always, but when he is, it's really bad..

The World of Journalism
• Joe Scarborough
• Post-mega deal Katie Couric, particularly her frequently changing looks.
• Former Post columnist Mike Causey, now working for the Washington Times after working for a failed dot com
• the paper the Sunday New York Times Magazine is printed on
• The Blue Sheet
• Dee Dee Myers, especially her hair.
• Greta van Susterern
• The crowd on the streets outside the Today show
• Gossip columnist George Whipple II, especially his bushy eyebrows
• National Public Radio (NPR)
• The late Murray Kempton
• Laura Ingraham, who once clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas. Especially her dark eyebrows and her new book, "The Hillary Trap."
• Local news directors
• Bob Woodward
• CNN’s weather people
• Rush Limbaugh
• Job-lover William Safire
• George Will
• Tim Russert
• Rodent-like and overly-intense CBS This Morning critic John Leonard
• Channel 4 reporters Debbie Lockhart, IJ Hudson, and Pat Collins
• PJ O’Rourke
• Vanity Fair writer Christopher Hitchens
• Articles that continue on other pages further in the back
• Multiple scent strips in magazines
• News anchor Catherine Crier
• Maria Shriver’s monstrous cheekbones or jawbones or whatever they are, but I love her book.
• The “Style Invitational” in the Washington Post, which I either never get, or it’s simply not funny
• The Business Section of the Washington Post
• Reporters who over-pronounce Spanish, like ‘El-Sal-va-DORHH’ so people know they speak the language
• ESPN’s odious program, The Sports Reporters
• All Fox News Channel anchors but not Brit Hume. I like him.
• George Stephanopoulos
• Chris Matthews
• Journalists with eyes that always look dark and dilated, like NBC correspondent Bob Hagar, ESPN correspondent Bob Ley, and Peter Jennings
• MSNBC filming Imus eating breakfast
• Documentaries about animals, especially ones about monkeys, chimps, baboons or sharks