Day: April 9, 2012

The McBournie Minute: Why do we still care about the Titanic?

One hundred years ago this week, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage. While the idea of icebergs just seems silly today, they were a real thing back then, and they were deadly, too.

To celebrate the centennial of of 1,514 heading to their deaths in the frigid sea alongside family and strangers, James Cameron re-released his movie Titanic in 3-D, and ABC has a new mini-series about the doomed cruise ship airing this month. That’s right, it’s time to form emotional attachments to a whole bunch of people, most of whom are fictional, and watch them figure how to spend their last two and a half hours on Earth.

It’s been 100 years and there have been plenty of other man-made disasters. What makes this one so special? Continue reading The McBournie Minute: Why do we still care about the Titanic?

Candy is worth fighting for

Easter is meant to be a violent holiday. After all, it’s all about public execution and then coming back from death. So it’s fitting that our Easter celebrations are also violent.

In Macon, Georgia, an Easter egg hunt for children was cancelled because the parents were just getting too excited. Some parents went along with their kids on the hunt for plastic eggs filled with candy, and but began squabbling over who found eggs first, and some even became violent. Apparently that’s against the rules or something.