Lazy and Uncreative

While I generally believe in other people, and in the world around me, there is absolutely no questioning that our social reality is kind of messed up. Thus, in lieu of a well thought out, intelligible posting, I present to you...

The Top 10 Things in This World that I Don't Understand**:

10. The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson: For real, I just don't get it. What part of the show is supposed to be funny/amusing? Help?

9. The Fanatically Radical Left: See The Rebel Sell (Heath and Potter) for a complete analysis, but basically, don't be passing up real, workable solutions just because they don't involve a revolutionary proletariat and strong political iconography. Policy formation is probably more effective than, and about half the effort of a revolution. 

8. The Fanatically Religious Right: Hey kids, cool your jets. There's bigger fish to fry these days than whether or not homosexuality and pre-marital sex makes Baby Jesus sad. You know...things like global famine, third-world debt, skyrocketing energy prices...just throwing it out there. The only reason these guys are further down the list than the radical leftists is because the Right doesn't have nearly enough fun with their kooky ideas. The radical left writes really wicked manifestos and doctrines. The fanatical right has all the same polarized hatred that the radical left does, but none of the flair. 

7. The fact that The Beijing Summer Olympics aren't being boycotted: Come on, we've boycotted less important things over less important issues. Also, the Olympic boycott is wicked effective. It's often argued that the boycott of the Moscow games was one of the main reasons for the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. If we're willing to boycott to protect the citizens of one nation against the armies of another, why not boycott to protect the citizens of a nation against the abuses of a corrupt government? Just sayin'.

6. Why people like Ann Coulter don't get their asses thrown in jail: How is it that some crazy bitch who hates Jews is still a radio, television and literary star? Like really. It's an honest question. This isn't really a joke. In Canada, she'd probably get her ass arrested for hate crimes. I have a sneaking suspicion that the reason she's still kicking around is because of the people who occupy the #8 spot on my list. A suspicion, mind you. 

5. Why some alleged Democrats went on the record as saying that, should Hilary Clinton win the Democratic nomination, they would vote for John McCain: This actually has no place on this list. I understand these people perfectly. They're dumb. 

4. The fact that MTV insists on hanging onto the "M," despite the fact that it has little to nothing to do with music: Shouldn't we just call it TV at this point? Doesn't that make more sense? 

3. How Charlie Sheen still gets work on high-profile networks and gets cast in shows which air in crucial time slots: Can't you just imagine Charlie showing up on set to shoot an episode of "Two and a Half Men" totally hung over, cigarette hanging out of his mysteriously chapped lips, two ladies of the night hanging off his bowling shirt-clad arms, giving the kid who plays Jake a stiff backhand slap, then breaking down in tears in the middle of a take? Can't you just see that? 

2. How the Canadian government can even consider passing Bill C-10: I'm not going to go into detail, because I'm a little tipsy on wine and kind of lazy, but do some reading on C-10 and just try and convince me that it's a necessary/good idea***. Is that American legislative puritanism knocking on the doors of Parliament I hear? 

And the number one thing that I don't understand in this world...

1. The View: I'm actually more impressed than confused by this show. It's genuinely astounding to me that some producer has managed to turn a solid hour of yelling and bickering into one of the highest rated daytime talk shows on the air. Kudos, sir or ma'am. Kudos. 

*There are some things that aren't on this list that should be, like calculus and physics, but those have less to do with the theme of my blog than random beefs with TV and radio do. 

**Also, for a really good explanation of why white people love arbitrary top ten lists, read The White Guy by Stephen Hunt. 

***As a note, a pair of Liberal senators has recently introduced a set of proposed amendments to the bill which would largely negate the problems with the original formatting of the bill. But still.