Underage boozers fill alcohol industry coffers
Science Blog: Underage boozers fill industry coffers Underage drinking contributes an estimated $23 billion yearly to the alcohol industry, more than 17 percent of the total consumer expenditures for alcohol, according to an article in the May issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
What’s true today will be true tomorrow
There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents… The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy. -Thomas Jefferson
Postal Experiments and massaging the blogosphere
I don’t know why, but I love reading about folks who mess with the postal service. A site called Direct Creative has a fun article on the things they were able to get the Post Office to deliver in spite of postal regulations. Apparantly, the “agents” involved were beset at every turn by courteous professionalism, [...]
His lips were moving
The time has come that the American people know exactly what their representatives are doing here in Washington. Are they feeding at the public trough, taking lobbyist-paid vacations, getting wined and dined by special-interest groups? Or are they working hard to represent their constituents? The people, the American people, have a right to know. I [...]
The man giving the finger to the man
Enron board gives itself retroactive pay raise I’m speechless.
Greed Ruins Everything #1
Online role playing games are supposed to be fun, a fantasy world where players can assume the characterization of their chosen online persona and live another life, in another place, with goals and dreams far removed from everyday humdrum life. It’s escapism, pure and simple and wonderful and fun. But you can’t escape human greed.