Like everyone, I have issues.

I have issues with people who hate gay people. I don't hate gay people anymore than I would hate someone with red hair or green eyes. And if they want to get married, that's OK. I don't feel threatened by gay people getting married anymore than I feel threatened by someone with red hair marrying someone with green eyes. It's up to them, not me.

I have issues about the abortion question. First, I'm not a woman, so it isn't a question to me. I never got pregnant and I don't know what it means to carry one of those in my abdomen. It's up to them.

I have issues about kids standing on street corners with submachine guns. They know how to shoot them but I'll bet they can't strip those guns and clean them. They never carried one for their country, either.

I have issues with people who fly the flag of Mexico at US soccer games. I think that after the match they should get on the bus and go back home.

I have issues with poachers. I see this all the time in the newspapers. They use the excuse that "..all I was trying to do is to put food on the table for my poor family..." They shoot the deer with a $900 sporting rifle with a $600 scope and there is a case of Milwaukee Light in the back of their 12-mile-per-gallon pickup truck.

I have issues with people who believe everything they see on the Internet or who send me those five-year-old pleas via email to send an email to some kid in the UK who has cancer. That kid is now 35 years old and beat the disease.

I have issues with anything resembling an "e-card." I prefer a card in an envelope with a stamp on the corner. They take less time to load and read.

I have issues with multiple forwarded email, where those blue lines are along the edge. It takes so long to scroll down to find the real email that I simply hit delete.

I have issues with restaurants that only offer "steamed vegetables" as the side dish. I don't like steamed anything unless it is asparagus. How about some nice cheese potatoes or rice pilaf?

I have issues with people who park so close to me that they will snap a dent in my car door when they try to get out.

I have issues with people who drive their golf ball off the tee when I am only a hundred and fifty yards down the fairway. When that happens, I go to their ball and slap it right back at them.

I have issues with neighbors who have all their windows open when they have a noisy argument every night.

I have issues with anyone who drinks too much and feels they must speak at over 100 decibels.

I have issues with the police car that follows me up close with no headlights.

I have issues with the TV news programs that run three commercials in a row promoting their own news programs. And I don't like it when they tease you with a news story headline but wait until the very last minute of the program to run the story.

So there.