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Prairie Rose Clayton and I often send instant messages back and forth when we are watching games. We agreed on something the other day: Calen Carr needs his ass kicked.

Normally, I try not to be a violent person, but there is something about certain people. You know what I am talking about: those certain people whose look says "look at me, but please don't think you are good enough to talk to me." These folks don't need to be good looking, far from it. They just need to have that look that crosses that line between self-confidence and grating arrogance. Crosses that line like the blitzkreig...deep into the other territory and never looking back.

Often times, such looks are associated with accessories; the oversized sweatband and "look at me, I'm wild, dammit" hair of Carr, for example. You can also put in this category any man that wears mirrored sunglasses indoors.

Yes, this is a syndrome that only effects men.

Like I said, normally, I'm not violent. Hey, I don't want these guys even to get their bones broken. I just want a few days of soreness to wipe that smug half-smile off of their faces. I think that if they were forced to spend time with these people, even Dorothy Day and Mahatma Ghandi would be trying to organize a pillowcase party.

Now, an asskicking doesn't always do any good. Jim Rome got his ass kicked by Jim Everett, on national TV even. This seemed to have no long term effect what so ever.

One nominee of mine is Chad Kroeger of Nickleback. I am lost on why these guys are popular, but then again, if the Pussycat Dolls are regarded as a serious force in pop music, why the hell not? I'm tired of how each and every song is sung by this guy as if it is the most meaningful and painful event in his life, as if all that power would make us forget about the derivative and sappy "napkin lyrics" he's singing. Yes, Bono gets away with this...but he's Bono...and Chad, you're Canadian. I talked about accessories: Kroeger always seems to wear t-shirts that are a size too small so we can tell how many reps he did at the gym.