Day: March 12, 2012

The McBournie Minute: Your friends don’t care about what you post

Facebook profiles are like opinions, everyone has them.

From time to time I use this little soapbox here to rant about social media, or rather, the people who are on them. My main issue is that it’s easy for each of us to get a little too self-important and thrust every waking moment of our lives into the faces of our followers, whether they like it or not. (If you’re blogging about your daily life, opinions, etc., at least that is on a separate site where your readers choose to go.

But a recent survey seems to agree with me that people really don’t care about your opinions on political stuff. Continue reading The McBournie Minute: Your friends don’t care about what you post

Breastfeeding our ailing national pastime

A Los Angeles area Little League is in dire straits and could really use a miracle right now. And that’s when some angels show up to save the day — some naughty angels, that is.

The Lennox Little League, a poor urban community, was almost unable to pay increasing fees and can no longer sell grilled concessions thanks to regulations imposed by the K-8 Lennox School District. The Jet Strip, a local strip club whose manager serves on the all-volunteer Lennox Coordinating Council, donated $1200 to cover them for the year.

And it makes sense. Without future baseball players, who will support the strippers of tomorrow? Golfers? Please. There aren’t entire teams of golfers.

Technically, there’s nothing in the Bible saying it’s bad

Oh legalization of marijuana in the United States, you’re such a contentious issue. To the people that want to legalize it, the argument is that it’s natural and not in created via a man-made process, like meth, crack or Arrested Development. For the people against the drug, the theory is that reefer is a drug and there’s a slippery slope that eventually end in the corruption of their brownies and an abundance of Phish concerts.

Traditionally, the right has been against the legalization of weed and along with them stands the Christian Conservative. Lucky for them, Pat Robertson, one of the Grand Poobahs of the Christian Conservative group has come out against the legalization of marijuana.

Oh, I’m sorry, I got that wrong. Pat Robertson has come out for the legalization of marijuana.

Yeah, we were kind of blown away by that too.

Flightless birds no more

We’ve seen bats, mice and cats all causing mayhem on planes, because animals are just jerks that like to make an unpleasant experience even more unpleasant. Now the more exotic animals are getting in on the action.

Passengers on a flight to New York got quite a scare when two penguins began walking up and down the aisle, emerging from first class. It’s not certain why they needed to fly with the rich people, or why they decided to mingle with the common people in coach. What we do know is that the penguins were headed to some Discovery Channel event.

These fierce, flightless birds probably attacked dozens of passengers, and they probably weren’t even obeying the fasten seat-belts sign, as required by the FAA.