The Overrated list for 2008

2008.... ba bye!!!! Glad to seee you GO! 2008 was one of those crazy crazy years. We had the meltdown of the housing market across the country, an expanded Global financial collapse and worsening recession, the likes we have never seen. Our 401ks became 4ks. Equity in our home became, well, what is equity again? Never mind. To cut to the chase, the shit finally hit the fan. Oh but it wasn't all bad.. We had a MEGA shift change in the Whitehouse, with the election of a young charismatic Senator from Illinois. There is also a real possibility we may have seen our last Bush of any kind in the Whitehouse. There was a ton of compelling stories, but in the hoopla was even MORE things that, in the end, really didn't matter. Things that were simply overrated. I'm going to take you through my list of things I felt were very much overrated in 2008 and in general. Lets start with this family to my right. The Palin clan came out of NO WHERE as the possible future leadership of the New Republican Party. For the life of me I can not explain their popularity. I would put Sarah Palin on the same level as Paris Hilton. (Maybe even a notch below). Todd Palin, who Sara proudly calls the "first Dude". There is nothing more to say, this is a easy target. I'm also going to leave the "kids" out of this one, too. Any fan of "As the World Turns" or "All my Children" needs to follow this family's stories online. There are some juicy things going on in Wasilla. So if Sara is overrated, then the mocking of Sarah is just as overrated. Tina Fey is not THAT funny. Her Star shot to the MOON over these repetitive impersonations she did on SNL. She can thank her lucky stars for the entire set of circumstances. It took her ALL the way to the bank even though SNL drove the skit into the ground. Also, few people actually watch 30 rock no matter how much they pimp the show - no one watches or cares, yet the network folks keep pimping it
because they think a show about a show is funny . No one is laughing ...no one cares , yet she gets awards ...and gets paid!!!

Music

Is there any band short of Vampire Weekend that can match the full on Blather of Coldplay? Coldplay was good back in the day, but the band has turned into a sad mix of Air Supply + Creed. Ive been wanting to say this all year... COLDPLAY SUCKS! Totally overrated. And to think Chris Martin is married to my crush of 10 years, Gwenyth Paltrow (who is not overrated), Ugh, it makes me sick. Its all a big bowl of wrong.

Lil Wayne - Please, the guy is overrated. My worst nightmare is my daughter growing up to like this drivel. The entire scenario scares me.

Carolyn Kennedy for Senator. This is Sarah Palin II. Worth north of a 100 Million dollars and heir to Camelot. Dont expect Tina Fey to be dissing on Ms Kennedy anytime soon, although I see every reason for SNL and Tina Fey to mock this joke of an idea. If the House of Lords does exist, then put her in and lets be done with it. Kennedy is not qualified to be Senator. The sooner we wake up to reality the better. This is EXACTLY how someone like George W Bush became President. Do we want to make that kind of mistake again????

Penn State Football.

There is NO WAY Penn State deserved to be in the Rose Bowl against USC. Penn State is simply not that good. They beat a "ok" Ohio State team that's much better today then they were earlier in the year. They then went to Iowa and got thumped. Penn State benefited from a very kind schedule and now they are paying the price. This is the first real top 10 team they have had to play all year and USC is taking them to the woodshed. Time for JoePa to call it a day. Thank you for your 120 years of service. The game is no longer played with leather helmets and they have this thing called the "forward pass". Oh well. I think they just signed JoePa up for 3 more years, so we don't have about Penn State doing ANYTHING for a while.

Dallas Cowboys and the New York Yankees - Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Both Iconic teams for their leagues are spending HUGE sums of money NOT to go to the playoffs. Vegas had the Cowboys favored to go to the Superbowl. I even had them early on in my fearless Superbowl Predictions. They suck. The star is not shinning. The New York Yankees have not won it all since 2000. This pretty much means that unless they go from worst to first this year, they were all but a non factor the entire decade. That's amazing.

Movies

Lots and Lots of Bad/overrated movies in 2008. I'm just going to roll through the list The Love Guru, Step Brothers, 10,000 BC, Speed Racer, Australia, Drillbit Taylor, Smart People, Sex in the City (yes I said it... it SUCKED!!!) Rambo IV, The Happening (this movie was disturbing and yet so retarded all at the same time, I really wanted my money back) and last but not least.. Fools Gold.

To end my whine fest of all things overrated, Id like to add a few other things to my list. Carly Fiorna, Ford, GM, and Chrysler. Congress. The Senate. Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac. CNN, Nancy Grace, Dr Laura, Rush Limbaugh, Real Estate, The Nasdaq, Hybrid Cars, Green Products, The Chinese Olympic Team. England's National Soccer team. The LA Dodgers and Anaheim Angels. and last but not least... Snow.

Happy New Year! Lets hope the list is shorter next year.