This clock updates every second, showing how much money is spent by the federal and state government on the drug war. It’s currently up to about $20 billion. I for one would rather see that money spent on body armor for our soldiers, fantastic libraries for inner city areas, remedy for health insurance issues, and a whole host of other issues that this money could support.

This is a fantastic articleabout the housing bubble full of good logic and sense; it draws interesting conclusions and scenarios. The article clearly shows that this is a speculative boom and not a fundamental boom that would be sustainable. Prepare yourself, house prices are going to fall dramatically soon.

Put simply: Kerry is a dork, and it shows in his pictures. Check out all of these side by sides of Bush Vs. Kerry, and you tell me who comes across as a confident leader. In reality we all know that Kerry would have been a damn good leader, but it sure doesn’t show in these pics.

This is wild, too wild for me to post a live link… this clothing company has a full video pornographic catalog, http://www.sexpacking.com/home.php

Wired just released a very powerful piece about why 1968 was so much different than today.

How about a ringtone that people under 20 years old can hear, while those older can’t, imagine the possibilities for carrying on in school. Teenagers have adapted a high pitch alarm called the Mosquito alarm, originally developed to drive gangs out of shopping areas, into a cell phone ringtone. Kids can receive text messages and phone calls in the middle of class, and even though all the students can hear the phone go off, the teacher will have no clue. Here’s an article about it.

America is #1 is one of our most popular slogans, and most people believe it to be the case. But check out this interesting collection of stats that prove otherwise. We don’t like to think about how stupid the majority of this country is. We surround ourselves with people of comparible intellectual capacity to ourselves, so we don’t see it, but you don’t have to look hard to see how inept and moronic the people in this country are. The question is, is it genetic or environmental… being that we are a country of immigrants, I would have to go with environmental. We have only our system to blame.

Researchers at UCLA were surprised to discover zero connection between even the heaviest smokers of marijuana and lung cancer. Whereas heavy smokers of cigarettes showed to be 20 times more likely to develop lung cancer. They theorize that marijuana’s active ingredient THC has properties that protect the smoker. Here is an article about it from MSNBC.