Tuesday, September 12, 2006

One Million Ways To Die: This one well-sourced story does more than all the 9/11 anniversary editorials combined to put the risk of terrorism in its proper perspective. As the article notes, you are at greater risk of dying from a hernia than from a terrorist attack. Consider how different things would be if the $400 billion spent on the false-pretenses pre-emptive war in Iraq had instead been used to develop and implement new highway safety technology to alert drivers when they are drifting off the road. Or any of a hundred other good uses. Imagine what GOOD our federal tax dollars could accomplish, and how much better our national reputation would have fared on the world stage, if our elected representatives had exercised more sense and wisdom in setting our national spending priorities. [Wired News: Top Stories] 9:38:00 AM

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