All Wee-Weed Up In August

Every year the lexicon of The English language gets updated by the folks who print dictionaries and similar tomes. The technical age has given us hundreds if not thousands of new words, and text messging? Don't get me started on what THAT'S done to English.
Then, there are the "accidental" misuses of language that get spotted every day. Malaprops give us a cause to chuckle, whether they be from Yogi Berra, George W. Bush or an anonymous source. Usually, though, they're nothing to get all wee-weed up about. (I'm still laughing)
Of course, perhaps President Obama is the ONLY one who knows exactly what he meant when he noted that Washington gets all "wee-weed" up in August. Context clues? perhaps, but I've heard many interpretations, especially from the Rhodes Scholars on Fox News. My interpretation is that he meant something to the effect that folks get all riled up over trivial matters...but I could be (and often am) wrong about that. That's how I'm going to use it in this post as I formulate a list of the things that are inconsequential...as opposed to those things of REAL importance that we SHOULD get all wee-weed up about. Here's the list of the "Are you seriously giving this importance?" items:

1. Miley Cyrus' performance at the Teen Choice Awards (or ANYTHING about M.C.)
2. Brett F. in Minnesota.
3. A too-low scoreboard in the "Jones Mahal" in Texas.
4. Absolutely anything related to Jon & Kate or Octomom.
5. U.S.A. 4x100m relay teams at the World Championships.

HOWEVER...I DO think the following might be worth some serious consideration in the "wee-weed" category:

1. Health care reform not guided by insurance companies or partisan politics.
2. Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi being allowed to go home to a hero's welcome and die
a free man.
3. Usain Bolt
4. The State of California getting ready to release 40,000 prisoners due to budget
issues...after cutting education and social programs.
5. Finding Jasmine Fiore's "boyfriend."

Sometimes I just have to wonder what's going on here!