It’s been a while since I updated my “loathing and fear” list.
Listed in no particular order, here are 101 people, places, and things I can’t stand at this very moment:
Spiders
Merlot wine
Star Wars movies
FOX News
Justin Bieber
Drunks in public
Lizards
Fake breasts
Hummers and BMWs
All New York and Los Angeles sports teams
Anything named “Kardashian”
Dallas Cowboys fans (1990 to present)
Young poker punks
South Carolina
Soft/melted ice cream
Grasshoppers
Dell Computers
Any “Light” or “Lite” beer whatsoever
Colin Kaepernick
Plastic eating utensils
Cleaning out the cat box
Philadelphia, PA
Nightclubs / DJs / Eardrum-splitting techno-music
Lebron James
Humidity
Golf shirts
Fast food of any kind
Road construction during rush hour
Lacrosse
Chatty waiters
Infants
Inattentive bartenders
Religious nuts
New Jersey goombahs / Sopranos copycats / Jersey Shore wannabe’s
Smart phone addicts
Any title show that starts off “Housewives of ….”
The NRA
Monte Carlo
Auto racing
Bad beat poker stories
Spirit Airlines
Neo-conservatives
People who don’t say “please” and “thank you”
Ketchup
Flavored butter / Margarine
Anything that needs to be assembled
Walmart / Sam’s Club
Liquor in plastic bottles
Anyone who uses “Rev.” in front of their name
Poor personal hygiene
Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer
Summer blockbuster movies
The New York Times
Stupid American tourists (overseas)
Nouveaux cuisine
UFO hunters
Talapia
Excessive patriotism / jingoism
Pharmaceutical salespeople
The TSA
P.F. Chang’s
John F. Kennedy — a myth and a fraud
Fortune tellers
Bad tippers
Intelligence agencies (CIA, NSA, DIA)
Anti-intellectualism
Any food product out of a box or can
Drugs
Royalty from any country of any kind
Lip-synching
George W. Bush
NBC Nightly News
People who mumble (especially when leaving voice mail messages)
Britney Spears (see lip-synching)
Sheldon Adelson
Anything to do with Donald Trump
People who interrupt me while I’m speaking
Cruelty to animals in any form
Gravy
Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon on “Pardon the Interruption”
White Shoes
Brown shoes
Anything other than black shoes
Polyester clothing
Neckties without a tie-clip
Nerds who wait in line for days waiting for new high-tech products (iPhone 6)
False hype
Whitney Houston
Fads
Confederate flags
And finally, number 101….
Writing early in the morning
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I think I’ll go take a nap.