Day: November 1, 2010

The McBournie Minute: We’re not gonna protest

As both of my regular readers well know, I live in the Washington, D.C. area, which means I deal with seeing crazy people everywhere, but that’s Congress for you. Being an area resident also means that because you live where politics and stuff happen, everyone with a strong opinion and lack of a job comes to your city and believes you care more about their cause than anyone else in the country.

They are always wrong. It is hard to express to people with literature about Bush or Obama being a Nazi that I really don’t care about what they think, and that I am happy to cancel out their vote. Then there are the rallies, oh, the rallies. It’s been a bad year for those. There was the annual “We Hate The War on Terrorism” rally, then there was the “We Hate Everything Congress is Doing Right Now” rally, followed by the “Glenn Beck Told Us to Show Up Here” rally. All of which I made sure I was out of town during.

Then came a rally that may actually have been one for the ages: The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. Continue reading The McBournie Minute: We’re not gonna protest

Space: The financial frontier

When asked whether the International Space Station could ever earn its $100 billion dollar price tag (so far), NASA official David Leckrone said, “I think it’s time to start showing what [this] station can really do.”

Leckrone then mashed some random buttons, placed his hands behind his back and stated in a British accent that, “You may fire when ready.”

He then cupped his hands over his mouth to add echoes to his “pew-pew” laser sounds, followed by waving them over a picture of the Earth to depict what we presumed was its annihilation.

Science: alcohol’s best friend

Science is a fickle mistress. Sometimes it can create incidents where robots will eventually destroy us all. Sometimes it creates incidents where animals will eventually destroy us all. More often than not, it just tells us what we’ve already known thanks to common sense rather than a litany of research grants, indemnity waivers and various placebos.

However, this time science has effectively paid off.

Science has managed to engineer in a lab the single most important organ in the human body: the liver. Albeit at a slightly smaller scale than normal. The next step is to see just how well they work, if they do, in animal bodies.

We’re saved! We’re saved! And it’s all thanks to science! SeriouslyGuys will live on forever!