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Complaints, Laments, and Irritants
Stop this planet and let me off
When I was a student in high school, a common assignment in speech class was to give a speech on a pet peeve. In English, it was an essay. I always struggled with that assignment because the more I thought about it, the longer my list got. Peeve? As in singular?
You have got to be kidding.
I am tired of hearing the phrase “X, formerly known as Twitter.” Or is it “X, formerly known as Prince?” Or is it “Twitter, formerly known as profitable?” Let’s face it. “X” is a pretty stupid name and saying that somebody “X’ed” something is awkward. It sounds like they did away with something they didn’t like, like Twitter. Ahem.
I still see the term “tweet” being used to reference something someone put on X. How can it be a tweet when it isn’t Twitter anymore? That doesn’t even make sense, but then these days there are a lot of things that don’t make sense.
The fact that the best this country can do for a presidential race is warmed-up leftovers from 2020 is one of them. Don’t these guys have an expiration date? Their combined ages on Inauguration Day, 2025, will be 160 years. There’s not another election that even comes close to that, except the last one.
