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Jewish World Review
2010: A year of annoying junk
By
Jim Mullen
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Welcome my friends to the year that was.
Political Ads: Face it, they're always offensive to someone, but particularly silly are the ones that end with a tag line like "Paid for by friends of Joe Blow." Buying you a few thousand TV ads seems very, very friendly. If a friend asked me to give him a couple hundred thousand dollars, I would have to rethink our friendship. That's the kind of money you give to an ex-wife, not to a friend. A friend of Joe Blow's is someone who helps him move. A supporter is someone who gives him money.
Texting: Where r u?
@ a traf ik ak c dnt.
North Korea: And you thought this country was run by a bunch of bozos. North Korea makes us look like a land of geniuses. It's an entire nation run by Mini-Me. And it has nuclear weapons. There is a solution. Someone has to tell Al Jazeera they saw Kim Jong Il drawing insulting cartoons of Muhammad.
Medical Marijuana: Side effects may include munchies, the urge to be profound and spontaneous laughter. If you giggle for more than four hours straight, call your doctor and ask if he has any left.
Wall Street Bonuses: You rob $20 from a 7-Eleven, you go to jail. Steal a trillion dollars on Wall Street from pension funds and IRAs and you get a bonus. That's some nice little justice system you got there, America.
Paying for Luggage: Spend $25 to take a bag full of clothes with you to the beach? Wear a bathing suit as underwear. You can buy a toothbrush, deodorant a comb, suntan lotion and a paperback when you get there for a lot less than $25. And remember, you'll save another $25 on the way back.
Vuvuzelas: As if America needed another reason not to watch soccer.
Pat Down Crybabies: Yes, the TSA can see your pot belly and they can touch your junk. Let's see, you're too chicken to be body scanned but you're gonna yell "Let's roll!" during the hijacking? I don't think so. I'll bet the 9/11 victims dearly wish they could wait in a long line to get patted down or scanned, as do their widows and orphans. When did "the home of the brave" become "the home of the whiners?"
"Oh, they patted down a little boy! For shame!"
"Oh, they patted down someone in a wheelchair!"
Like a suicide bomber cares if he blows up his own kid. As if you can't hide a bomb in a wheelchair. Those of us with knee replacements and/or pacemakers have been getting patted down for years and it hasn't hurt us. Besides, being patted down or scanned is a picnic compared to sitting in coach for seven or eight hours. That's what should be banned.
Vampires and Zombies: Books, TV shows and movies about the undead who have the same everyday problems as you and I have, despite their supernatural powers, have taken over. How long before they start producing "American Idol with Vampires" and "Dancing with the Zombie Stars"? Oh, yeah. That's pretty much what it is now.
"The Jersey Shore": When you talk about class, sophistication, wit and style -- you must be talking about some other show. It's like sitting through an hour-long infomercial on how to become a self-centered moron. And lots of people are buying.
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Jim Mullen is the author of "It Takes a Village Idiot: Complicating the Simple Life" and "Baby's First Tattoo."
Previously:
Why do bad things happen to stupid people? Moving on from movie theaters
Money never sleeps, but it does pass out
President Trump kept it classy
Stalking your college kid won't change a thing
Putting my life in Jeopardy
Mo' government, mo' problems
iLostIt
Dressed for excess
Expert tease
The mysteries of Jersey
You are a toilet, where am I?
Don't we all cheat at the game of life?
What happens when I forget where Google is?
Don't let the doorman hit you on the way out
Picasso fiasco
Purple (hair) Daze
Let me hear your body talk
Working from work
Babies deserve clean restrooms, too
3-year-old bear-killers are a thing of the past
Money-making ideas on the fly
Collecting and hoarding
Chain of fools
Please come pick up your acting awards, ESPN commentators, you've earned them
You've been superpoked by the U.S. gov't
e-Readin', e-Writin' and e-Rithmatic
A pose by any other name
Warning: Column contains 2010 spoilers
He loves only gold, only gold
Think about direction, wonder why …
Flushing your money down a diamond-studded toilet
More like wack Friday
The good, the ad and the ugly
The desert of the real
Let books be large and in charge
I was insulting people way before the Internet
GPS drill sergeant: Left, right, left!
Butterfly in the sky, you make winds go twice as high
Music to my ears it's not
You don't light up my life
Fair or not: Country living is far from Little House
A parable for the ages
Top 100 Cable news stories of the century
Green dumb
A developing story
Thinking outside the lunch box
What's good for the goose is good for the scanner
Newspapers will survive, but network TV?
A really big show of generation gaps
When pigs flu
The reports of our decline have been greatly exaggerated
Mergers and admonitions
Invest in gold: little, yellow, different
Stuck in Folsom Penthouse
Collecting karma
Setting loose the creative juice
It's all in the numbers
You're damaging your brain with practical skills
The real rat pack
The unspeakable luxury of the Park-O-Matic
Gross-ery shopping
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