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We won’t know the price for a while, but I would pay both kidneys and a leg for this 525HP update to the sexiest Audi ever.  From Uncrate.

First of all, I am not for or against socialism.  Socialism is sometimes good, and sometimes not so good.  Other times it can be downright bad.  An example of the good is the US Postal Service.  For an insignificant amount of money, you can drop something in a mailbox and have it hand-delivered anywhere in the world within a few days.  If I were to go into the same business with maybe ten employees, I would have to charge hundreds or thousands of dollars for the same service.  The Postal Service is an example of a necessary service that works well despite being socialized.  Some countries have nationalized their energy businesses and the results have almost always manifested in drastically reduced energy costs for the population.  As for the really bad things to socialize, primary is media controlled by government, which almost always leads to Orwellian propaganda and is therefore unthinkable to anyone who values freedom.  Socialized health care, on the other hand,  almost always falls into the “not so good” category, with draconian distribution methods, lack of funding, long wait times, substandard care, and lack of managerial quality.  Health care reform with the public option is something that seems necessary but not for everyone, and since many people are happy with the health care already available to them  maybe it should just be socialized only for those people that need it.  Also, the reform aspect should not be limited to just the health care industry but to all health related fields, especially the ones that reap enormous profits while having little positive effect on public health such as insurance companies, litigators and lawyers, and some HMO’s and pharmaceutical companies.

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I found this youtube video on DVice,  and while it is very simplistic, it covers most of the bases (basics) and offers a few new(er) theories to consider.  It seems that one of most difficult concepts to accept logically, especially by someone with merely a passing knowledge of the sciences, is that the physics of our universe began as a result of the big bang, and that time and space are a function of physics, and thus did not exist prior to the event in question.  More after the jump.

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The idea that shipping companies would prohibit their crews from carrying weapons is ridiculous and unfair to these potential victims of piracy.  It also mirrors the overly restrictive gun rules in most of the U.S. 

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This beautiful machine has 180 horses, a 0-60 time of 6.2 seconds, and gets 42 miles per gallon of………diesel.  That’s right, it has a 1.8L TDI (TurboDiesel Injection) motor that gets mileage comparable to a Prius and better than any American made hybrid vehicle.  When you look at the production cost of a hybrid, along with the negative environmental effects of discarding toxic batteries after about five years, a clean burning, efficient diesel begins to make a lot more sense.  Plus, this little machine is soooo sexy.  I hope they make it.  More on this beauty at Jalopnik

I thought my first blog entry would be something sexy, but unsexy thoughts preoccupy my mind.  I have been doing a lot of thinking about this stimulus bill, and I am sure some of you have been preoccupied as well.  With all this bullshit about a NY Post cartoonist depicting the writer of the bill as being a monkey, I decided to delve into into the numbers and find out exactly how unintelligent and monkey-like the logic behind the bill actually is. Also, I want to know who the organ grinders are.  More after the jump.

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