The Holiday Shitlist

Here at Lose The Noose, we make a regular sport of talking about what sucks. To all of you out there that also provide the needed public service of talking about what sucks- consider this an appreciative hat tip. To honor our consumaculture, I propose the Holiday Shitlist. Please feel free to voice your negativity, misguided angst, stereotypical boycott fetishes...vent your anti-corporate malaise among friends.

1.FOX : We know O'Reilly sucks. Fox sucks. ("Family Guy"-uh, not so suckish) But all predictable lists must begin with Fox or Wal Mart, right?
2. Target Sucks, Whore Blogs Suck More: While there was much debate about the reports of Target pharmacy employees and the dispensing of birth control(the company denies the scenario as outlined on many websites and blogs,call that one yourself) what sucks more are the number of Blogs that had "Target Sucks,I will never shop there" posts WITH FREAKIN TARGET ADS ON THEIR BLOGS!!!!!Now I am not spiteful-although the links would be amusing and I am not perfect, but the irony is far from cool. Those of you that frequent some feminist heavy hitters know exactly what I mean here. Nuff said.

3. Sony: For those that are unfamiliar with the Sony Sodomizing of our disc drives, it involved installing anti-copying software to unknowing users that also left them vulnerable to viral menaces.
The blog Bastard of Art and Commerce has a post on this as well as examples of CD's implicated.

4. Trey Anastasio: You suck because a- you are on this Sony CD list b-I loved you and c- you are not my daddy's Jerry. "Surrender the Air" my ass. This Phish lover is moving on with her life.

5. Google: For their shameless stance on spying and censorship. Big Google Is Watching!

6.Ian Rankin: And I quote: "The best crime writing is as good as anything else in the literary canon, and right now crime writers around the world are confronting society's deepest problems, worries and uncertainties in a way the 'literary' novel sometimes avoids." While I must say 'Constant Gardener' made me cry, I think this statement is a stretch and I hate the way we are becoming apologetic about our standards. My problem is with the way we dumb down the arts and then make the claims that it is 'as good' or 'as relevant'. I am not defending elitism and snobbery, but rum in my coke doesn't make it a cocktail. Call things what they are, be it hack fiction or Forster.

7. Senator Ted Stevens: Global warm your stoic steel soul, you pig.

8. The (now Former)Dover School Board: For shaming PA. Oh, wait. Santorum currently shames PA.

9. The EPA for their relentless desire to test toxins on children
10. Abercrombie and Fitch- suck couture.
Your turn!