This weekend, I spent some time in an establishment where you can take gulps of beer inbetween playing Star Wars: Starfighter and waiting for your karaoke number to be called.  In other words, it wasn’t an institution of high culture.  And having spent time with this eatery and the people who frequent it, I consider myself up-to-speed on annoying T-shirt trends that are being embraced by today’s youth.

And I’m not pleased.  Here’s some of their current travesties:

1. I read the article but still couldn’t believe that Che Guevara T-shirts were really hot items.  But now I’ve seen dozens of them for myself.  I’m pretty sure that if you asked any of these people why they’re wearing them, they’d answer “I just love his albums.”

2. There’s been lots of complaints about young people wearing tight shirts that expose their midriffs.  But what bothers me is that so many of them have no business wearing skimpy clothes.  Some of these people look like they’ve swallowed inner tubes; that should be an incentive to suit up, not strip down.  To me, this is evidence that young people of today have no sense of responsibility, discipline, or work ethic.  In my day we wouldn’t leave the house dressed like that unless we had a sufficiently powerful eating disorder to go along with it.

3. “ANGEL” T-shirts. Honey, I’ll grant you, I’ve never seen an angel--but I’m pretty sure they don’t wear jeans with a hole cut out of each butt cheek.

However, I’m okay with the shirts that say “Dorks are Hot.”