And now its time for another edition of "What I Like and What I Don't":

I like rock concerts. I don't like terrible sound such as we got in the Flogging Molly concert recently at the Grove in Anaheim, normally a great place to go to a show. I don't know who mixed that show, but the bass was so loud and the drums so amplified that we couldn't even hear the singing of Dave King. Everybody was complaining. I've seen four Flogging Molly concerts, one in a showroom at Lake Tahoe, one outdoors at The Greek Theatre, and one in a small club, The Knitting Factory in Reno. So, I know what a good Flogging Molly concert sounds like, and the one at The Grove was not it.

I like road trips and hotels. What I don't like are showers that have soft water, making it hard to actually rinse the soap off. In fact, it never feels like you have rinsed it off. For that matter, I don't like the showers that have the shower about five feet high, so those of us who are not Billy Barty's height have to crouch to rinse.

I like baseball. What I don't like are 6 weeks of spring training exhibition games.

I like a beautiful, soft snowfall. I don't like shoveling my driveway.

I like real girl rock and rollers like Chrissie Hynde, Steve Nicks, Pat Benatar, Joan Jett. I don't like overrated phony divas like Brittany Spears and Ashleigh Simpson. I especially don't like female artists who use the exact same formula as the others, in other words, the diva sings and dances in front with ten or fifteen other dancers behind her all doing the same steps. Soooo boring.

I like MSNBC. I don't like that MSNBC fired Pat Buchanan, whose politics I may detest, but could give me a differing point of view, and actually make me laugh too.

I like mini-skirts. I can't think of anything I don't like about mini-skirts.