Are you kidding me?

There are some remarkably idiotic things happening in the world. I read the news, entertainment, politics and the like and sometimes I just can’t contain my jaw from dropping to the floor.

Moving Day: July 1st is not only Canada Day, but also National Moving Day in Quebec. Most renting/leasing contracts end on June 30th. That results in a moving craze, with moving companies working overtime, traffic jams and absolute insanity (people have to bring their own fridges and stoves). Most people who aren’t moving themselves are in fact helping others move. That’s the day that I’m going to be sitting on my front lawn with a coke in my hands, giggling. No, really

No Aliments: I don’t know what kind of a jackass first got this idea. If you are married and one of you decides to stay home with the kids so that you can keep going to work and doing what you love, that is a sacrifice in itself. For anyone who has not stayed home with children for a longer period of time it always looks like a breeze, but let me tell you, if you are not ready to strangle the kids by the time one week has passed, you are not doing it right. Frustration is part of the job, and a job it is. So, when you decide you’re sick of them and want a divorce, it is absolutely despicable to ask to not ever pay alimony. What the hell is wrong with you? They stayed home, depending on you and now you just want to leave them high and dry? And apparently, that’s not just a male problem, as Melissa Etheridge now proves.

Paparazzi: Really? Kristen Stewart may have been a bit tactless when comparing pap pictures with rape. But if you think about it… This is the girl that can’t even walk out of her own home without being photographed. She can’t go anywhere without a huge group of paps following her against her will. They take pictures of her and sell them, against her will (which, might I add, does not go along with the laws where it says you need to have the consent of the person you’re photographing when you want to sell them). It’s basically mass-stalking, with the consent of a society that claims that such situations come “with the job”. I was not aware, she was signing up to give up her privacy. Here I thought she was just an actress.

Oil Spill: I don’t have to say much about this one, since a lot of people are talking about it already. But here’s a question: Are you seriously telling me that humanity is ready to drill holes in deep waters in order to get oil, however they have absolutely no back-up plan on what to do should this whole thing - oh, I don’t know - blow up? How much stupidity can fit into one human being’s brain?