Airing of Grievances 2019

• The U.S. Executive Branch is still awful.

• The Senate is still awful. Due to its fundamental design flaw it is hard to imagine it getting even to "decently good" any time soon.

• Presidential primary discourse is terrible and it still has months to go before its over.

• And then we'll probably get stuck with Joe Biden as the nominee anyway.

• Brexit.

• Quidditch is increasingly hard to care about without a team to root for. I don't even know if I'm going to bother to follow nationals this year.

• Current upstairs neighbors like to talk. A lot. Not having enough quiet time in my day is really painful.

• Thanksgiving weather was miserable up and down the state and I basically got stuck indoors for the entire long weekend. Combine that with the high gas prices this October/November and I haven't gotten out for a good hike in way too long.

• The Giants are bad and the current management direction seems uninterested in making them remotely watchable any time soon. In this they seem to be following the rest of baseball.

• Most baseball owners seem to care more about profits than winning and the sport is becoming increasingly less watchable as a result. Rob Manfred's war on the minor leagues is Not Helping. At this point I'm rooting for the lockout to hopefully smack some sense into somebody.

• The Sharks are unexpectedly terrible and don't even have their first round pick to at least be a bit of a light at the end of the tunnel. Naturally, the fanbase is blaming Erik Karlsson when he's been one of their better players and a _lot_ of people are underperforming.

• The Legion of Super-Heroes reboot is exactly what I feared from Bendis. Excessive focus on 21st century stuff and the characters sound annoyingly similar.

• Avengers: Endgame decided it was a good idea to brag about how its time travel totally made sense and then proceeded to have time travel that did not in fact make sense. (Which among other things leaves Steve Rogers's conclusion confusing.)

• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was more interested in fanservice than telling a good story with, like, character arcs. Overall the sequel trilogy really could have benefited from a cohesive vision.