Various reasons to give up:

Democrats

Republicans

Church + State – together at last!

Hollywood remakes

The Billboard charts

All these people with these stupid tattoos

Everyone is your graduating class has a “rockin” demo tape

Don Knotts is dead

Your real estate broker is shopping his screenplay
about robot firemen

You just watched a recent SNL

Barbara Streisand is taken seriously by people

Some bottom-feeding "comedian" you never heard of is mocking Billy Idol on VH1
with an unearned air of smug superiority

Nancy Grace has a TV show that reaches into millions of homes

My local radio station just played "ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL PART II" for the one millionth time this summer

No one on the Internet knows the difference between THEIR, THERE and THEY'RE