Ten Ways Everything Truly Does Suck

I tend to be a relatively cheery fellow, but some important things have very much not been going our way. To wit:

10.  All that intolerant religious stuff: folks not known for turning cheeks or loving enemies imposing their own views of abortion or morality on the rest of us.

9.  Alcohol has really—and this sure looks like one they are not going to change their minds about—turned out to be bad for you, even that one modest glass of wine you were thinking of sipping this evening.

8.  Rock ‘n’ roll has finally and conclusively proven not to have been here to stay. It grew. It peaked as an explosive force in the culture with soul music, the Beatles, Dylan, the Stones and, maybe, punk. But by the standard to which so many 20th-century artists in all genres subscribed—those not busy doing something new are busy dying—rock began rolling over and playing dead well before the turn of the century. Tell Bruce Springsteen the news. . . .