Day: May 16, 2011

The McBournie Minute: Why I stopped watching ‘The Office’

This week, NBC’s The Office wraps up its seventh season. The big news a few weeks ago was Steve Carrell left the show. His character, Michael Scott, decided to leave the Scranton, Pa. office and join U.S. Navy Seal Team Six to hunt down Osama bin Laden.

Honestly, I have to tell you, I don’t care, because I stopped watching a season ago. It wasn’t something I consciously did, at first, anyway, I just happened to move on from watching it for a while, and I figured out I was actually probably better off. I loved The Office, but I had to move on from it before things got rough.

At this point, you are probably asking yourself, “Why would someone be better off not watching a show they loved?” Continue reading The McBournie Minute: Why I stopped watching ‘The Office’

Don’t kill yourself planning this year’s vacation

It was a close call, but we almost lost the world’s premier euthadestination: Switzerland.

The Swiss conservative Federal Democratic Union party and Christian groups lost a referendum vote to end assisted suicide for foreign visitors. 80 percent of Swiss voters depend on the FDU-dubbed “suicide tourism” industry, which is the neutral nation’s only means of competition with other European hotspots like Amsterdam’s marijuana and sex tourism and France’s “go ahead and take Paris, we weren’t really using it anyway” tourism.

So, when you think you can’t take your spouse, kids and job anymore, think Switzerland.

The perfect gift for the crappy people in your life

Zoos are the kind of place that we need in society, for when the animals are all gone, we will thank zoos for helping remind us just why we fought.

Now and then, zoos can be a dangerous place, you know, like when something escapes, or somebody climbs in the tiger cage all hopped up on paint thinners. But now, these prisons for enemy combatants may have another appeal, especially for the legions on dung collectors out there.

The Prague Zoo is selling pieces of elephant dung as souvenirs, because who doesn’t want that? Apparently it works as a pretty decent fertilizer, at least that’s what the Czechs say.

Just a hint, in case you’re stuck trying to come up with a birthday present idea for yours truly.