The McBournie Minute: The Midwest just isn’t like around here

I counted myself as one of the millions of drivers traveling this year for Thanksgiving. Though I’m amazed every year that the holiday’s chaos isn’t reported in any other country in the world. The traffic was manageable, the weather wasn’t bad, so I won’t bore you with any tales of how I sat in a car voluntarily for hours on end. I won’t even bore you with what I ate.

However, I did go to the Midwest. And as an East Coast native, it always seems just a little bit weird to me. The people are friendly and generally happy for no reason at all. Their roads are straight and flat. Weird, right?

But as I followed the news across the relatively wide region, I found that things get weirder there all the time. Continue reading The McBournie Minute: The Midwest just isn’t like around here

Making the holiday season brighter with a stun gun

The holiday season is officially here, and with it come warm feelings, with a streak of murderous rage. And there was no short of it in the city of brotherly love on Black Friday.

At a Philadelphia mall, police are investigating a stun gun fight between two women. An argument between two couples began with a fight between the male parties, before the ladies got involved, according to police. One of the women just so happened to have stun gun, and used it on her opponent.

Of course, the victorious couple won the crowd’s applause and their pick of items throughout the mall.