2006 - Annoyance of the Week: January 2006 Archives

This week's theme for the annoyance of the week is things that leave a bad taste in the mouth.

Annoyance Number 1 - Bad Coffee

I love coffee and prefer it strong and black. Since I've been out of tea for the last couple of months I've drank a bit too much crap coffee. The coffee I was drinking was dreadful, but I didn't realize it until I had cleansed my palate with a few days of tea drinking last week. After a few days of tea I went to a local coffee shop and came to the conclusion that not only was the crap coffee bitter and nearly tasteless -- it was slowly robbing me of my ability to taste. Once I had weaned myself off of the crap coffee for a few days everything tasted better including decent, but not amazing, coffee from the local coffee shop. Crap coffee will deface your taste buds, coat your tongue in tar, make you think Lindsay Lohan is important and eventually turn you to the dark side of the force -- avoid it at all costs.

Annoyance Number 2 - The Senate and Judge Alito

I captured some of the proceedings from the confirmation hearings for Judge Alito and played it backwards to determine the true content. Here is an exceprts from the transcribed results.

The hearings are a farce. The process seems to exist to give us candidates who are adept at not saying much. It's a "no show trial" meant only as entertainment -- no actual judges will be harmed during the filming. Seriously, can't we have a process that even pretends to be enlightening?

My favorite commentary came from Adam Felber in his blog post titled "Politicians are from Mars, Judges are from Jersey" who pointed out sagely that judicial activism generally means judges doing what you don't like.

After consultation with my editorial board and the inspiration of the "THE 100 MOST ANNOYING THINGS OF 2005", I've decided to add a new category to the blog called, "Annoyance of the Week." I plan to chronicle all the things that I find especially annoying throughout the year. If you want to nominate someone or something as a candidate for annoyance of the week drop me a line.

My nominee for Annoyance of the Week is the radical American cleric Pat Roberts.

In week one of 2006, Pat Robertson distanced himself from the pack by stating that God had caused Ariel Sharon's stroke. Never mind the fact that Mr. Sharon is in his late seventies is overweight and has a stressful job. I'm speculating now, but it also looks like Sharon probably doesn't get enough exercise -- although he does look significantly more lifelike than the other radical cleric Jerry "Looks So Lifelike" Falwell". If all that weren't enough reason to have a stroke, MSNBC reports the stroke may have been caused by a medicine combined with a pre-existing condition. Pat has been outdoing himself lately calling for the assassination of foreign government officials and suggesting the reasonable voters in Dover, PA shouldn't ask God for help in the future. What an embarrassment.

If we all ignore him will he go away?

Seriously which job would you rather have -- Pat Robertson's PR guy explaining to the press what your boss meant to say or would you rather teach angry ferrets how to program with templates in C++? I say bring on the ferrets.