My New Year’s resolution was to curb my temper and have more patience. It may be a physical impossibility. I seethe underneath when forced to swallow daily doses of inane drivel and blatant irresponsible behavior. It starts as soon as I turn on the news in the morning and ends when I turn it off in the evening. One is forced to endure capacious amounts of absurd nonsense in order to obtain proportionate amounts of basic comprehensive insight into what is happening in the world.

Let’s start with advertising. You and anyone else who wants it can have it. I am perfectly content to peruse ninety percent of media content without any advertisements. I have had all of the commercials featuring a gecko that I can stand. The same goes for ads for auto insurance that purport that you can name the price you are willing to pay using the price gun. Also the car ads that start out like a segment of Star Wars and finish before you are even aware it is an ad for a car let alone the make of the auto. How about the number of ads? The percentage of time compared to the actual content of the programming is frustrating particularly when you are paying cable and broadcast fees. To add insult to injury the volume is cranked up every time the commercials come on. Please do not get me wrong I have as much of a sense of humor as the next guy and enjoy some ads that lend themselves to that vein but not those that insult my intelligence.

The movie ads are in a class by themselves. How many sequels can one stand? One True Grit and one Billy the Kid are enough. Speaking of Billy the Kid how excited did you get about Governor Richardson of New Mexico considering granting a pardon to him? Then, I ask you, who could sit through the top ten Hollywood Blockbusters of 2010, or the top ten anything for that matter.

I am tired of euphemisms being used to describe obvious facts. I submit as a case in point the deranged nut that, in front of several witnesses, recently shot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and several others. He is referred to as the suspect. Why? Can there be any doubt as to whether he did it or not? Now we will have to endure the agonizingly long years it will take to convict him and determine his fate. He is a truly disturbed and dangerous individual and his actions in no way can be construed to have been prompted by anyone other than himself. Anyone who even tries to infer otherwise is themselves not only disturbed but truly dishonest. In 1901 President McKinley was shot on Sept. 6 and died on Sept. 14, by Leon Czolgosz. His trial and execution were carried out in thirty-eight days. Why does it take years and months and millions of taxpayer dollars to convict trash such as Loughner when several eye witnesses saw him commit the crime? Could it be because the average rate for attorney fees is $300 an hour?

Now I will get down to the everyday incidents that bother me to no end starting with people who deliberately take up two parking spaces. Sure I know why some people do it. It’s because they are worried their vehicle may get dinged. In my opinion that is no reason for rude, crude and discourteous manners. I strongly suspect the same people leave their shopping carts right where they empty them. I have noticed with interest that older people, some with obvious infirmaries tend to be more likely to return them to where they belong than the younger set.

Litterers are another of my pet peeves. I constantly wonder to myself how anyone can be as base and uncivilized as to throw their trash wherever and whenever they feel like it. The amount of trash and litter that accumulates along our highways and byways is appalling. I shudder to think of how many of them do it in front of their children.

All of the above are things that raise my ire and get my goat but most of all they make me sad to see what I perceive to be a demeaning of our nation and communities as a whole.