Too funny to ignore

This video is ostensibly a spontaneous (oddly well-choreographed) dance that erupted in a Microsoft retail store.



Now, I've never been in a Microsoft store, so maybe it is like that. I have been in an Apple store and I can tell you for sure this would never have happened there, at least not in the ones I've been in. For one thing, the stores are much smaller. For another, there are no where near that many employees. Finally, the Apple stores seem to always be so crowded with customers that it is hard to walk around, much less do an (oddly well-choreographed) dance.

My car got broken into yesterday

Someone pried the door handle out of the bodywork, and stole the radio and a couple of gauges that I had installed. Probably $1500 damage, maybe more, to get about $100 worth of stuff.

I just watched this video: Harvard Economist: End the War on Drugs. While I think he's right, I think there is a large second-order effect that he's missing. If that junkie's meth (or whatever it was he was going to buy) cost $2 for a week's supply instead of $80 (or whatever it is) he could have gotten it by asking for spare change, or even just scrounging around a couple of parking lots.

I suspect that the second-order drain on our economy from this drug war is more like twice the size of the $77MMM that the video above suggests.