So Nintendo Wii has turned Beer Pong into a video game. It will be called “Pong Toss” and mothers are pissed. “My children will start drinking earlier now!”… “This is promoting underage drinking!” [The game is rated T for teen so children as young as 13 can get this game legally.]

First of all, I think the game looks boring. Second, isn’t this pretty much a carnival game- throwing balls into cups? Third, the kids are gonna start drinking at some point when they’re underage anyway. They’ve seen or heard about beer pong before, trust me. Getting all worked up about it is just publicizing and therefore further promoting a game that looks boring. Good job. Chill out. Just don’t buy the keg when they invite their teeny-bopper friends over to play their new Pong Toss game. The parents who are complaining are probably the parents who will watch their children like hawks until they’re 21 anyway.

To score my own island in THE WORLD? 

If you don’t know, this photo is of 300 manmade islands off of Dubai in the Middle East. If you click that link, it’ll take you to the wikipedia article about it. This thing cost 14 billion dollars to make. It’s going to be lots of hotels and resorts. It’s (obviously) in the shape of earth (an oblate spheroid?) and you (ha! like “you” will ever go) can swim from country to country to continent. Unfortunately, I don’t think the islands’ millionaire/billionaire owners have the hots for me. There’s a rumor Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are buying Ethiopia. HA!

 

 

 

 

I just watched a horrifying episode of the show, Autopsy. A woman went to a medical examiner to prove that she wasn’t the cause of death for three of her children. She lost a baby daughter to SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) while sleeping with her. Two years later, she had twin boys. She got drunk with a friend one night and went to sleep with the babies. They died of SIDS. Of course, the cops and society interrogated her and made it out like she killed them. The medical examiner did autopsies and found out there is no genetic proof that the babies died in any other way than by her rolling over in her sleep and accidentally suffocating them. I feel horrible for the woman! But I do wonder why she slept with the twins after having lost a child in the same way. The truth it, people just shouldn’t sleep with their babies. Check this out and learn the facts if you have an infant or plan on ever having children. Don’t ever keep stuffed animals or pillows or blankets near the infant’s face while they sleep. And babies should sleep on their backs! Sleeping with your baby can be a bonding/comforting experience, but it’s not worth it!