Awards

We are an award-obsessed nation. Good grief, it seems any breathing person ends up with some sort of an award. If you're a kid and actually show up for a kid-related sporting event, you get some kind of award. If you're a new music person or group, there are like so many awards floating around looking for a new home that one is bound to stick. And given the level of crap that is modern "music" that manages to win one of these obscure awards merely serves as proof of this.

If you're an actor, you have dozens of award programs that can find a way for their award to land on you. Heck, if you're in an Olympic-type sport, a few 100ths of a second can make the difference between gold and silver. This simply proves that there is absolutely NO difference between these competitors, yet the idiots involved insist on proclaiming a winner.

And don't get me started on college and professional sports, seeing as how our society seems to have elevated sports to a plateau that is more respected than any other profession. As abominable as this is, no one seems to remember the parallels with the fall of the Roman empire.

The Curmudgeon Societé finds this whole turn of events simply nauseating. If there were an Einstein among us, he would probably be lost among basketball heroes. Well done, America.