Monday, December 27, 2010

The Low Road of 2010

This is the time when all media outlets declare their "Worst People of the Year" lists where we glance through the often funny yet sometimes cringe-worthy moments of absolute insanity of one sort or another in either a public figure's life, or a collective group's ghastly decisions. The same names and groups tend to share the shameful spotlight with the commentator or writer's unique spin on each as the primary differentiation between such lists. I've already read several serious as well as amusing lashings on the usual suspects.

Most of the chosen ones that/who share the year-end dishonor deserve to be placed in the town square for a public booing - and worse. Thus, rather than become yet another part of the choir, albeit an alto, I'd like to dig around for the lesser-known evil-doers this week as we count our way down to Friday night's revelry at the strike of midnight.

To get the basics out of the way, however, I'll name a few of the Big Bad's and then get on with it.

BP/Tony Hayward ("I want my life back.")
The Tea Party
Glenn Beck
The GOP filibuster's
Pat Robertson (accusing Haiti's earthquake on Haiti via a pact with Satan to be freed from French control)
LeBron James (for leaving Cleveland to get some Heat in Florida)
Tiger Woods (for cheating on his wife to get more heat in and out of Florida)
All of those ultra-conservative Beeches of my very first post on this blog

There's more, much more. Nevertheless, the drums of public ire tend to be focusing in those directions. If one is not politically progressive, then it's just one name for them: Obama. Obama. Obama. Click your heels three times and the whole world will be back in Kansas in shades of black and white once more following that awful tornado, and Toto will be licking your chinny-chin-chin with tail-wagging delight.

Now that you have a taste of what's to come (or is already out there for flogging), let's follow my own Yellow Brick Road to stomp on the unsung jeer-worthy for the departure of 2010.

Before I begin, a few cups of tea with sugar and cream are required for my brain to find its way into the Sins of the World.

To be continued.......

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