If it’s Friday, it must be time for our weekly slap-and-tickle fest (minus the tickle) known as The Hit List. Watch the grown men of Grey’s Anatomy act like children, then let’s talk about who deserves to be knocked upside the head this week! I’ll show you mine… then you show me yours!
Topping my list of people needing a good, old-fashioned slap to the head is Ohio Congressman John Boehner, who had the nerve to say that he hadn’t had a single American “lobby” him for a public option where health care reform is concerned. Now perhaps Mr. Boehner used the word “lobby” to mean “throw lots of money at a politician in the hopes of swaying him to suddenly see things your way”, but assuming he actually meant that nobody in this country has filled him in on their desire to have a public option, I’d like to slap him not upside the head, but with a flood of tweets, e-mails and phone calls to let him know just how many of us want the public option. You can tweet the Congressman at @johnboehner, hit him up on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/JohnBoehner, call him at 202-225-6205 or fax him at 202-225-0704.
"What I meant to say was... lalalala! I can't hear you! I can't hear you!"
Others deserving a knock on the noggin:
* New York’s Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who after eight years in which he could have dealt with the parking problems in Manhattan, is suddenly vowing to make it a priority. Not coincidentally, he’s running for election. Worse, he wrote a recent op-ed piece saying his plan might involve using your cell phone to find available parking spots. You know, the very phone that his police force can ticket you for using while driving!
* Jon Gosselin — he of the reality show Jon & Kate Plus 8 — who has, since being excised from the show (which will now be called Kate Plus 8), suddenly decided reality TV is “bad” for his kids. The disgruntled dad even went so far as to hang up signs warning that film crews would be charged with trespassing… on which he misspelled his own name. D’oh!
* The man I overheard telling his wife, via cellphone, that he’d watched a teenage boy slap and verbally berate his girlfriend. Why the man on the phone sounded proud I don’t know, but I have to feel sorry for his significant other.
That’s my list for the week… who’s topping your list of folks who need a bit of sense knocked into them, not literally, but perhaps by a little public shaming in our forum?
Dear Roomate,
Please stop parking your dead car with four flats in the perfectly good but very limited parking spaces in the driveway. If I have to park in the dirt that turns into a muddy lake when it rains one more time, I’ll have to take the Uggs that were just ruined in the same muddy water and stick them so far up your butt that you’ll be burping up sheepskin.
Please and Thank you.
Nothing annoys me more than people who walk through the world with no concept of how valuable other people’s time is. And by other people, I mean ME.
When I’m patrolling the supermarket’s parking lot, looking for a spot, and someone strolls in front of my car as if I have all day, that really burns me up.
At least do the courtesy shuffle! You know, when you put a little pep in your step when walking in front of a paused driver so that they might, I don’t know, actually get on with their day! How rude!
They are lucky vehicular manslaughter is frowned upon.
