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eagle hunting traditions. that is more bad ass than hunting with a hawk. maybe after bow hunting is mastered. then again, the kid from my side of the mountain did it with a hawk - if he can do it then i can too.

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this makes me angry.

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That's a lot of people drinking guiness when its not SPD

This probably doesn't come as a huge shock, but St. Patrick's Day is a big day for beer and spirits companies. Guinness, that most Irish of beers, sells six times the amount of beer it normally sells on St. Patrick's Day (3.5 million pints of beer sold, versus around 600,000 on other days), even as the company pulled out of sponsoring the New York St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Sunday due to the limitation of LGBT participation.

Meanwhile, Samuel Adams is expected to see their sales jump 13 percent this week, even as its parent company, Boston Beer, also pulled sponsorship out of the South Boston Parade. All told, beer companies are expected to take in around $245 million today, according to IBISWorld, though the impact of sponsorship decisions isn’t yet known.

What we pay to drink

More than 133 million Americans celebrate SPD with beer--which probably makes not drinking beer on SPD unpatriotic. Though, you should expect to pay a little more than normal for your St. Patrick's Day suds. Especially if you're a man. Men give out more green than women on this day, according to Mint.com. The average man spends more than $42 on St. Patrick's day and the average woman spends around $28.

Can you guess which beer is the most popular in the U.S.? Actually, you probably can. It's Bud Light (#spoileralert).

What we're doing about how much we pay to drink


In related news, I was excited to see the people in my native city of Boise, Idaho taking a strong stand against beer price gouging. At the ice hockey arena for our local team, The Steelheads, fans sued when they found out that a $7 "large" beer (served in a tall, skinny cup) actually holds the same amount of liquid as the $4 "small" beer. The lesson? Do not mess with an Idahoan's beer. The suit exceeds $10,000--I'm thinking a lot of that will have to do with emotional damages.

You know what will help us handle emotional damage? Beer. Happy St. Patrick's Day!

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And do you wanna live forever? Irene Cara sung all about it in the hit song “Fame.” It’s her birthday tomorrow. She’ll be 55.

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look at it...

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you have two seconds to improve my mood

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i just find it funny that the new baseball players name is jose peterson ...

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im thinking about it but it requires my cell number.

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worth a click through.

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i need to go to new zealand

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LEGO NAUT?

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STEP 1: The Passport is taken
STEP 2: The Passport makes its way from the petty thief to a wholesale warehouse. There, it will sit in a stack of other stolen passports.
STEP 3(A):

A passport forger calls the warehouse to say, "I have someone who needs an American passport, got any?"
STEP 3(B):
The warehouse man rummages through the stack, pulls out a passport, and sends it to the forger
STEP 4: The forger will, if necessary, adulterate the image on the passport. He'll run it through a chain of people possibly 10 links long, until it makes its way to the client.
STEP 5: Someone will buy the fake passport for $200-$7,000. It could be used to get a job, to open a bank account, to launder money, or to get on a plane. As is clear from the Malaysian Air mystery, border patrol does not always check against Interpol lists of stolen or flagged passports.
STEP 6 (optional): The stolen passport can be used to glean identification information that can then be used to apply for brand new passports – with a criminal’s photo and biometric information attached.

i lost my passport once. great story.

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And time to put your green thumb to practice. It’s Plant a Flower Day. Digging in the dirt is cathartic.

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This final note about online polls and surveys. The social media team at WFAE in Charlotte have come up with a new one: Which public radio host are you?

It's got some reasonably relevant questions: Who would you most like to interview? What's your favorite public radio show? What should your college major have been?

So, I took it. And, honestly, I don't know how I didn't come up with me.

Who did I get? Apparently the internet thinks I should be Audie Cornish, the co-host of NPR's All Things Considered.

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I'm not an expert on anything except having fun.

I'm a professional partier and not a professional economist, but like anyone else I've had my own experiences with money, and I've learned a few things about it thanks to all my partying. Before I actually started to earn a living from partying, I spent most of my money on it. Now since I make money from partying, I have even more respect for both money and fun. Here are three simple truths partying taught me about money:

Money isn't evil

I used to think that money was bad. I'm not sure why I started thinking that. Maybe it was from old sayings like "money is the root of all evil," and just seeing how trying to get more of it made people act crazy. I also had a lot of friends who lived their lives without making much money, and they seemed to think that making it wasn't cool. They didn't like having jobs, so they did everything they could to get by without needing money — which takes a lot of effort and often seemed to involve punk music, not bathing and not eating meat.

A few years ago, I had a very wise person explain to me that money is just like "magic paper", and this magic paper allows you to do amazing things. Money itself is neither bad nor good, it just depends on what you do with it. I finally realized that my own "money is bad" beliefs were pushing money away from me, money I could've used to make my dreams and goals into reality more efficiently. Find out why you think that way, and then consider re-evaluating your beliefs. When you have money to spend on friends, family, and fun, suddenly it becomes one of the greatest and most powerful tools in the world. It's true that the best parts of being alive don't require money. But that doesn't mean it can't improve the conditions of life. And you don't have to be greedy or a scumbag to use money and feel good about it.

Spending money is important

I'm obviously not an expert on the financial markets, but even I can understand that money has no value or ability to do good if it isn't spent. It's wise to save money for a rainy day or for a future house or whatever, but in a modern society we rely on each other spending money in order to spread the wealth around. If you're concerned about the poor people, it can seem like a meaningful show of solidarity to be poor yourself — it can seem like we should live with less, because others have less themselves. But if poor people had more money, they almost certainly wouldn't turn it away so they could continue being poor out of protest. And you being poor doesn't help a poor person either. You having money can certainly help a poor person, a sick person, a bored person, etc. And all of us spending money is what keeps it moving around — it keeps modern civilization functioning.

Whenever the media talk about a financial crisis, they end up making it even worse, because the anxiety their reports inspire cause people to save money rather than spend it. And so all that money is just sitting there, not doing anyone any good.

The only thing that money is meant for is spending. And that's especially true when you spend it on partying.

Use money for joy

In my opinion, spending money on fun and games is its best and wisest use. Of course, there are times when it's necessary to spend it on things like clothing, food, or shelter -- but once we have the basics covered, I can think of no better way to spend money than on joy. Some people have tried to make me feel guilty about spending money on things they call "frivolous," but the beauty of money is that it is up to you to decide how to spend it. That's the freedom. And there should never be any feelings of regret or sadness when you use your money for joyful experiences. If paying to go on a roller coaster makes me happy, then money really can buy happiness. When we have experiences of joy that last, we're not only investing in our own direct happiness, but the happiness of the world in general. Money spent on fun and feeling good is totally righteous. Money spent on getting wasted is never wasted money. So, keep on partying with money, and keep on having fun.

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gosh i can remember going to sam goody in boulder run on my bike to buy music. also that's where i bought posters of jenny mccarthy. yup.

Free streaming services like Pandora and Spotify came along and my phone got smarter, too – or at least better at gaming the system for free downloads. I just stopped buying music with any regularity. I can’t even remember what year it was when I last updated my iTunes library, and it looks like I’m not alone. Earlier this year, Billboard reported the first drop in digital music sales since the iTunes store made its debut in 2003. CD sales continued their steady decline and overall album sales also experienced an 8.4% drop. All of this made me wonder: Is owning music important to anyone anymore? If yes, then who?

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i lost my keys. ... ouch.