The In-Crowd

It has occurred to me that I'm not as laid back as I like to think that I am. It turns out that there are actually people I don't like. Not as in "I hope you die" don't like, but more "if an alien came and abducted you, I wouldn't mind so much as long as they treat you nicely."

Katie Couric makes the list. So do Matt Lauer, Tom Delay, Suze Orman (heck if I know why, probably because she is so understanding of people who put themselves into debt participating in pyramid schemes), Martha Stewart, Camille Paglia, Rush Limbaugh, Antonin Scalia, Mister Rogers, William Shatner, selected ex-boyfriends, the newscaster on channel 8, the weatherman on channel 5, Meryl Streep, and Clarence Thomas. Ann Coulter has a class to herself.

On the other hand, I absolutely adore - and simply could not live without (even though some are technically dead) - Walter Cronkite, Carl Kasell, John Sharp, Julia Child, Judith Martin (Miss Manners), Bill Clinton, Molly Ivins, Bob Hope, John Cusack, selected ex-boyfriends, Craig Biggio, L.M. Boyd, Katharine Hepburn, Steve Jobs, anybody at the Pixar film studios, Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant, Anna Quindlen, and former Governor Ann Richards. This week, Vince Young is likewise in a class by himself.