People I should be allowed to flog.

1. Aggressive drivers.
2. People who drive under the speed limit in the left lane.
3. Tailgaters.
4. People who drive while engrossed in their cellphone conversations.
5. People who turn, then signal.
6. People who run red lights.
7. People who change lanes without signaling.
8. Drivers who do not yield to emergency vehicles.
9. People who do not polish their presentations and make their point clear.
10. People who do not label their data.
11. Whoever created the sales policies at this housing development.
12. Neighbors who whine about ants and yet neglect to trim their yards and sweep up after their cats.
13. Neighbors who take all the parking spots because they have too much crap in their garages.
14. Neighbors who stuff my trash can because they have too much crap.
15. People who do not pick up after their dogs.
16. Coworkers who do not fess up when they break the code.
17. Coworkers who abuse the budget, making it impossible for people like me to get the machines they need. Worse still, making it so we have to justify every pencil purchased.
18. Coworkers who unplug my machines because they are too dumb to ask for help.
19. Coworkers who do not respond to requests in a timely manner. (6 days is timely. 6 weeks is not.)
20. Ambulance-chasers.
21. People and their trial laywers who bring frivolous cases to court.
22. Bigots.
23. Political bigots. (You know, the Democrats who claim all Republican ideals are evil, and vice versa, thereby eliminating all possibility of civilized debate.)
24. Politicians.
25. NBC, for their coverage of the Olympics.
26. PBS, for repeating their endless nostalgia musical marathons over and over again.
27. Whoever thinks redoing reality shows over and over again is a good idea.
28. ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox, for their reality shows.
29. CNN, Fox, MSNBC, CNBC, and all the major networks except PBS, for failing to provide worthwhile news coverage.
30. Geraldo Rivera, for failing to provide any news coverage.