Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Badass Quote of the Day [Dispatches from the Culture Wars] – “The United States has only 5% of the worlds population but imprisons 25% of its prisoners. The federal government spent over $15 billion on the drug war in 2010, or a rate of $500 a second. Our country is 66% non-Hispanic white people but 70% of our prisoners are non-white.” THIS is the War on Drugs. Any questions?
- Improve Smartphone Signal with a Drinking Glass – don’t be cheap, Steve, start handing them to new costumers
- Possible Early Warning Sign for Market Crashes – So … if every company is rising like crazy … that’s a bubble.
- The Magical Bend – An intersting idea, though I suspect it would make the utensils a bit harder to hold, and I’d worry about a clasping utensil’s impact on china.
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Yes. What’s your plan to curb drug induced crime?
What’s my plan to curb alcohol-induced crime? It’s not to outlaw alcohol, lock up anyone found with a bottle of beer, and turn the demand for booze over to gangsters. We tried that in the Twentieth Century, and it failed miserably. Why the War on Drugs (on pot in particular) isn’t seen as a similar failure is beyond me.