Take a look under your seat

Published 10:16 pm Sunday, November 21, 2010

You get corporate welfare! And you get corporate welfare! With Oprah Winfrey’s announcement that she’ll end her show and start her own network comes concern from Chicago businesses that Winfrey will move her considerable economic machine out of the Windy City.

Since it worked so well in snagging the second line for Boeing’s 787, Charleston, S.C., already is shamelessly promising big tax breaks for anything Oprah wants to call her favorite thing.

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Lend us a quarter: Mario, the little Italian plumber and star of video games for nearly 30 years, is at it again in a new game for the Wii game system.

Sure, Mario has advanced far beyond his “Donkey Kong” days, but we remember when all he needed to rescue the damsel was his ability to jump and hit barrels with a mallet.

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Poking’s OK. Kicking is not: Police in Los Angeles County are investigating an assault of a 12-year-old boy by schoolmates who may have been motivated by a message on Facebook that said Friday was “Kick a Ginger Day,” labeling red-headed and freckled kids as “gingers.”

A note to the nation’s mothers as they prepare to discuss this with their kids: We’ve checked, and there is Facebook group called “If your friends jumped off a bridge naked, would you?”