Things The Wall Street Journal Hates This Week

The Wall Street Journal is an excellent newspaper. It is also something of a grouch. An entertaining, well-informed, occasionally terrifying grouch--the kind of grouch who badgers children about the poor quality of kites these days--but a grouch nonetheless. Here is a partial list of the people, inanimate objects and broad societal trends the paper took umbrage at this week:

• The U.S. Postal Service

• People who text 'I'm late'

• Lightbulbs

• Penmanship

• Progressive taxation

• Parker Spitzer

• European demilitarization

• Employee background checks

• Barack Obama's taste in music

• Gold

• People who don't cooperate