Shame(s) on You: Whole Lot of Shame

So many things going on that I want to rip on that I couldn't pick just one. Instead here are my takes on a variety of issues:

1. Educational System: There's gotta be something wrong with the American educational system when you can spend $100,000 for a bachelors degree and can still be underqualified for an entry level position. If getting a master's degree is so imperative why offer bachelor's degrees at all? Or why not offer 5 or 6 year joint degree programs across the board?

2. Bud Bashing: Major League Baseball's front office needs a series overhaul. All of a sudden somebody decides to close the roof at Minute Maid Park for the World Series after leaving it up to the Astros all year, including throughout the postseason, to decide when to close it. If it's such an unfair advantage I'm sure the Braves and Cardinals would have wanted MLB to have it open during the entire postseason. Why close it now? And isn't the fact that it provides an advantage all the more reason to have it closed? Isn't that the point of playing in your home park? Why not just play all the World Series game in neutral sites from now on so that neither team has an edge in any of the games if it's such a problem? From ending all star games in ties to banning Pete Rose from the game but not steriod users, does anybody in MLB have a clue?

3. Weather forecasters: Like in that upcoming Nicholas Cage movie I wish that somebody would throw something at these guys. All they do is hype up every storm as a "Nor'easter", creating mass hysteria. Sometimes I think these guys own a majority stake in Waldbaums since such hype always leads people to stock up on groceries. Then when there's a really bad storm, like the one that flooded my basement, they don't even mention the fact that it's one of the worst storms in history until like a week later when they find out just how much damage was done. And speaking of history these guys still think that this year's bad weather is just a historically bad year. No one seems to realize that it's not a bad year, it's the start of a period of bad years, as the planet's climate changes. Get it right people!

4. ABC is 'Lost': And finally the thing that bothers me most of all are the idiots who run ABC. Every year they stop a run away hit show like Lost after a few episodes to go back and reair the last few so that everyone can catch up. That accomplishes nothing other than to kill the show's momentum and buzz, turning viewers off. If they wanted people to catch up they should reair the previous week's show right before the new one, in a 2 hour block, or air that week's episode later in the week like on a Saturday night when there's nothing else on. Maybe even a Lost marathon once a month, for four hours, on a Sunday afternoon. Instead these morons kill the best thing they had going for them.