Random Fact...

A popular myth regarding human sexuality is that men think about sex every seven seconds. In reality, this has not been measured...do to the fact that the MALE researches couldn't concentrate on the topic for longer than six seconds.

Telling You What to Watch...

Unstoppable

Starring Chris Pine (AKA, Captain James Tiberius Kirk)

 and Denzel Washington. The movie is about a runaway train and two unlikely heroes attempt to stop it. Capt. Kirk is the new guy, Denzel is the salty vet. Kirk is having marital problems and Denzel’s wife is dead.  They have a myriad of other personality conflicts that make it difficult for them to work together. When they are face with a precarious situation where lives are in danger they must find a way to put their differences aside. The movie was interesting as long as you ignore the HUGE plot holes and odd narrative.  We at State Controlled Media can firmly and confidently tell you not to watch it.

What’s that? You thought we were telling you to watch Unstoppable? NO. If you want to watch a movie about a black guy and white guy who barley know each other thrust into a conflict while trying to stop a runaway train watch Silver Steak.

 It stars Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. A much better movie with great acting and fun. It is so un-pc it could not get made today. Take some time and watch it just to remember that we used to have fun and we were able to laugh at ourselves.

Ten Important Facts on Top 10 Lists...

 

Our special Editor has been adamant that we do top ten lists...or any list.

So we at State Controlled Media have decided to head her advice and do a top ten list.

Here are the reasons we have not done a top ten list before and why we probably will never do one again.

 

10. We are barely clever enough to come up with one salient point about any given subject.

9. Our attention span is so short; keeping a train of thought through 10 points is nearly..

8. Sorry, we were watching Person of Interest (see#9).

7. We are already bored with this.

6. We cheat a lot. (we know that is not real a point germane to the topic)

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4. It was our special editor's idea and that makes us not to want to do it.

3. Gas prices, NFL combine, Daytona 500, NASCAR, Lin-Sanity, Hot nude girls

2. Are we not done yet?

1. THE Perpetual Supreme Benevolent Editor hates arbitrary lists...

 

So there you have it. Our first/last top ten list.

 

A word on spell check. Spell check always gives us fits. Sometimes we use words that are not in common vernacular and spell check doesn't like it. We often make usage errors and spell check doesn't care. It haste when we type SCM or PSBE but, it has no problem with Lin-Sanity...just saying.

 

(Editor NOTE: Stay tuned for the top ten reasons why the PSBE is awesome)

Random Facts...

Did you know any sins you commit during  Mardi Gras are automatically forgiven?

(Note: Random facts may or may not be actual facts. It is entirely possible that the Perpetual Supreme Benevolent Editor just made it up...)

Telling You What to Eat…LENT…

(editor note: We know the picture above is Mardi Gras which is not Lent but it falls in the irony of this missive.)

We at State Controlled Media do not subscribe to any particular religion. Each of us has our own sets of beliefs and we refuse to set a standard for the site. That being said this is a major event for a large portion of the populace. So we researched it (i.e.  we asked people we know) and we were dissatisfied with what we found out. What exactly can you eat for Lent? The topic registered to us this way; we were on a SCM road trip and the Perpetual Supreme Benevolent Editor was hungry. Every where he looked fast food restaurants proclaimed the arrival of one type of fish sandwich or another.   So the PSBE asked: “why the influx in fish?” A Catholic member of SCm informed us that it is common to give up eating meat for Lent.

“Why?” asked the PSBE.

“It’s about sacrifice,” answered the Holy Editor. “Besides fasting believers are asked to prey more and give up something important or take on extra work.”

PSBE: “Like starting a blog?”

Holy Editor: “No, it’s not like that at all.”

PSBE: “I don’t get it, fasting and sacrifice for belivers…

Holy Editor: “And abstinence.”

PSBE: “Abstinence?”

Holy Editor: “Yup.”

PSBE: “Eww.”

Holy Editor: “Yup.”

PSBE: “So, how does fast food fish figure into abstinence, fasting, and sacrifice?”

Holy Editor: “well we have to fast from meat and we can eat fish, it really has no bearing on those other things.”

PSBE: “you can EAT fish during Lent?”

Holy Editor: “Yup.”

The rest of the conversation is not germane to our larger point and has been redacted by the PSBE (i.e. he spent the next several minutes berating people who believed fish was not meat. Looking at you vegetarians.) So we did more research (looked Lent up on Wikipedia). The history of Lent is not oimportnat but we found that the point about eating fish is derived from St. Thomas Aquinas said about meat: "they afford greater pleasure as food [than fish], and greater nourishment to the human body, so that from their consumption there results a greater surplus available for seminal matter, which when abundant becomes a great incentive to lust."

So the whole point in eating fish and fasting is no sex…

No sex=fasting, abstinence AND sacrifice. When Lent first started there was no candy bars to give up or Xbox. So abstinence was the thing to give up. We believe that the prevalence of you people giving up anything and everything you can think of for Lent is proof you have not, nor do you intend to, adhere to the abstinence thing. So if you are not going to do the abstinence thing there is no need to eat only fish…right?

Anyway, so when we thought about this process further we decided you should be eating this:

and This:

Not This:

We don’t think changing your order slightly at a fast food place is sacrifice nor does it make you less likely to have carnal relations with your spouse/random person. If indeed this:

… is just as acceptable as this:

And you dnaon’t have to eat this:

...none stop. Then you can all up your preying to Jesus to thank him for this:

Thank You Jesus For the Fillet-o-Fish,

Your Friends at State Controlled Media