Day: October 21, 2013

I know I’m not alone when I say that the government needs to leave the American people alone. I’d like to think that I share a lot of the same principles as the Tea Party. For example, I, too, enjoy wearing tricorn hats.

In fact, aside from my belief in a central government and its duty to protect its people, while caring for their welfare and coming to assist when its people are in need, plus keeping a watchful eye on the markets, etc., I’d say we’re pretty close on a lot of issues. Actually, I also like young people and minorities.

But aside from that, we need to get Big Government out of our lives so we can be free to pursue happiness, like Jesus said in the Constitution. That’s why I’ve been nothing less than shocked by the headlines I’ve been seeing lately. Continue reading The McBournie Minute: Keep Big Government out of my breast milk supply

Researchers at Connecticut College found that, based on brain scans indicating stimulation of pleasure centers, Oreos may be more addictive that morphine or cocai —

— You know what? We can’t do this anymore.

It’s pretty clear that if tobacco, orgasms and now cookies that take more steps to eat than changing a lightbulb are more addictive than drugs … then maybe, maybe we need to reconsider what we use as our baseline measurement of addiction.

We’re not saying cocaine isn’t addictive. Just that, you know, maybe we should start comparing all other addictions to something more substantive if everything’s more addictive than cocaine.

No one really knows what air marshals do. I mean, we suspect we know what they do thanks to movies and occasionally television, but for the most part, no idea. According to the Federal Air Marshal Service:

The official task of air marshals is to “detect, deter, and defeat hostile acts targeting U.S. air carriers, airports, passengers, and crews,” and [they] “operate independently without backup” on flights, and are trained to “blend in with passengers” in order to “protect the flying public.”

Now, again, my knowledge of them is limited to movies and television. Do they roll onto a plane wearing a sports coat, cowboy hat, dress casuals and a button down tucked into dungarees? Perhaps. I don’t know, it might be to blend in. Also in order to blend in with passengers, are they supposed to take up-skirt shots of female passengers? Again, I’d guess no, but hey, who knows how they’re supposed to operate.

For those of us who want to lose weight, but hate the idea of changing our eating and exercise habits, there will always be schemes to make money off of your insecurity. If only there were an easier way.

One man in Arizona has found a diet that any of us could stick to. Evo Terro is celebrating Oktoberfest by eating nothing but sausage and drinking beer. And he’s losing weight doing it. His cholesterol is going down, to boot.

Prost!