Weekend remainders

Since I canceled classes for tomorrow my weekend starts early...

First up: There's a joke that the lottery is a tax on those poor at math. Now there's a lottery system that lets you invest money with a chance to win the lottery but you don't lose your investment. How do they do it? Pay a low rate of interest on the "savings."

Old and cranky: The elderly are the major beneficiaries of government run healthcare yet they are the least likely to support government spending for others. Even for children.

I like this idea: Cash for refrigerators. The next government spending programs are going to encourage you to mothball that old inefficient refrigerator/washing machine/dryer in favor of a new, more energy efficient one. There's no requirements to qualify like cash-for-clunkers. Finally, I'll get to replace my refrigerator that sounds like a dying cow.

Is your kid going to college? Convince him/her to major in engineering. Nine of the top ten paying majors are some form of engineering.

No surprise: With commodity prices less than half what they were a year ago, farmers are being hit exceptionally hard by this recession.


And finally, here are the nine stupidest products of all time. It's clearly an incomplete list because Ronco is not on it...