I just started reading The Fellowship of the Ring and noticed that the Shire music theme from the movie plays in my head while I read. I've been ruined by the talkies! Work has been slow lately. It's been so slow that I started reading Economics in One Lesson at my desk. It dispels common economic myths that politicians use to win votes. The book takes patience to read, but I think it's well worth it. Check it out. The site on which that economic book is found has this great picture on a page about the war on drugs. 
A little drop'll do ya!
It's probably a sign that I'm hanging out on too many Libertarian websites, but I think I'm changing my mind about drugs. When I happen to catch the show Cops, it usually strikes me that the drug users they catch are more pathetic than they are criminal. If being pathetic is a crime... well... let's not go there. But stop and think: Our nation stopped Prohibition because it was unpopular and - more importantly - it had disastrous, unintended social consequences. But here we are, over seventy years later, fighting a war on drugs. Why? I don't use drugs or advocate drug use, but I'm not convinced that this 'war' is worth it. | 
