This question would be a hell of a lot easier if it was “what doesn’t make you roll your eyes?”

People make me roll my eyes more than anything, particularly, the stupid things they say and do. For instance, the greed of a few corporate executives and financiers who crashed the entire world’s economy to line their own pockets, and got away with it, too. Or a major oil conglomerate’s failure to properly secure an offshore oil rig, and then taking months and months to fix it while the ocean off of not-their-country swelled with black tar balls.

Or the way that politicians say one thing and do another, and that you can’t even get to be a public official in this country unless you are rich and influential. The way that people don’t think for themselves and blindly follow slanted ideology spewed forth from slanted “news” sources. The fact that anyone would ever take Sarah Palin seriously on anything makes me roll my eyes.

Most things I hear on the news make me roll my eyes and lots of things make me do more than that.  They make me shake my impotent fist in the air at no one in particular because there’s not just one person who’s culpable. It’s a whole system based on incompetence and passing the blame, and the machine is just too big for one person to take on.

It starts with an eye roll and works itself into a full-on, angry lather when I realize that nothing is really going to change. The fact that nobody’s really even trying just makes me even angrier.  People will always be greedy, selfish assholes no matter what.  It’s all about numero uno. It’s the American way.