I have been completely hooked on Craig’s List recently. It’s not the “furniture” or “sublets” section it’s the “Missed Connections” section. These little notices amuse me to no end. They ads are a little stalkerish, more than a little self centered, quite shallow and occasionally very amusing. Most recently I was amused by the post where someone is looking for their lost youth. I find it both creepy and endearing that people think they can find love in the want ads after seeing someone for a few seconds at a stop light or at the deli counter of the local Kowalski’s.

This week’s theme for the annoyance of the week is things that leave a bad taste in the mouth.

Annoyance Number 1 – Bad Coffee

I love coffee and prefer it strong and black. Since I’ve been out of tea for the last couple of months I’ve drank a bit too much crap coffee. The coffee I was drinking was dreadful, but I didn’t realize it until I had cleansed my palate with a few days of tea drinking last week. After a few days of tea I went to a local coffee shop and came to the conclusion that not only was the crap coffee bitter and nearly tasteless — it was slowly robbing me of my ability to taste. Once I had weaned myself off of the crap coffee for a few days everything tasted better including decent, but not amazing, coffee from the local coffee shop. Crap coffee will deface your taste buds, coat your tongue in tar, make you think Lindsay Lohan is important and eventually turn you to the dark side of the force — avoid it at all costs.

Annoyance Number 2 – The Senate and Judge Alito

I captured some of the proceedings from the confirmation hearings for Judge Alito and played it backwards to determine the true content. Here is an exceprts from the transcribed results.

The hearings are a farce. The process seems to exist to give us candidates who are adept at not saying much. It’s a “no show trial” meant only as entertainment — no actual judges will be harmed during the filming. Seriously, can’t we have a process that even pretends to be enlightening?

My favorite commentary came from Adam Felber in his blog post titled “Politicians are from Mars, Judges are from Jersey” who pointed out sagely that judicial activism generally means judges doing what you don’t like.