We should ban freezing sleet, which has pretty much shut down stuff around here for the moment, freezing sleet on top of three of four inches of very wet snow, which hopefully will not turn into huge sheets of ice overnight.
We already had to bail out one friend of Andrew's who attempted to climb up the slight incline on our circle and got his car stuck, thank goodness for cat litter!! Then I witnessed two neighbors trying to leave out of their driveways onto that same ice slicked downhill slope and promptly skid out as well, so we is going nowheres tonight.
As far as ticks go, all I can recall is the one totally gross experience i also had as a child while off camping with the family, I got one on me and I think my parents tried soaking it with kerosene or gasoline or something, and the first extraction only removed one half of it, and then we had to await with awe and horror the extraction of the head part. /Shudders/ Ban them like the Husnock!!
It is even worse when you have to pick the little blood sucking nasties off of your pets, who HAVE been treated for such stuff. Ban all blood sucking nasties, the birds can evolve and find something else more tasty to eat, like ASIAN LADY BUGS!! I do not want to ban them , but whoever thought THIS was a good idea? GRR! Every autumn, I have swarms of these things flying about my windows and doors trying to find a way in to hibernate or whatever it is that they do, and you never see them at all during the spring or summer.
And, while we are at it, I want to ban unsolicited phone calls, even though I am on a "do not contact" sort of list, and I want to ban those people who keep giving me fifteen thousand variations on the yellow pages, they creep up in the night, I swear, and leave these things on your doorstep. Invariably, they do this when it is raining or something out, so what you get is a half soaked soggy mess in a wet plastic bag that you promptly toss out into your recycle bin in any case.
As far as Hollywood or other "celebs" I could care less about what such people do, they frankly do not deserve my attention unless they are doing something really worthwhile, and 99% of the time, this is not at all anything near the case. Oh, can I add in those journalists that keep publishing stories about dead people? Like "really long dead people" such as Princess Di, JFK, Nicole Simpson, etc. For my whole life, I avoided tabloid journalism, but now, no matter what sites I go to , I am assaulted with this crap. Call me cynical, call me crass, call me just not caring, I want to see real news, not the latest gossip and opinion polls and whether or not Di was expecting or if JFK got someone with a bun n the oven etc. Deal with what we have now, I guess that would make journalists need to actually do their jobs and the public really care about what is going on. What a novel thought that might be for the 21st century.