I need me some of these! Sausages stuffed with vitamins and caffiene.

Just when I thought that Europe was going to finally go over the deep end and collapse into an anti-semetic socialist stew, my faith in western civilization is saved by a power sausage which goes well with beer.

Check out the real-time salary comparator.

The coolest part is the “Burg-o-meter” button that lets you view the comparison in tangible units instead of intangible dollars (There’s a guy in the office who is CONVINCED that the US and Europe are going to go to hell in a handbag because there’s nothing except for faith backing our currency.)

(Hey, there’s another lawsuit – the Almighty Dollar as violating the establishment clause now that we are asked to take its value on faith instead of hard assets like gold or sliver)

As a non-father I am continually being harrased by fathers about becoming one. This website presents The Story About the Baby which appears to be an unadulterated timeline of what a new father has to go through. I can’t say I am any more eager to become a father, but at least someone admits to the same worries I have and gives an unfettered account of what really happens.

It was at this precise moment that my soul left my body.

Over at TCS there’s an “article”: about the switch in American consumer preferences from the functional to the aesthetic, and a brief, brief thought about the implications of this for the economy. I’d like to riff on this a bit.

Got an email about this new cell phone “threat” from my friendly trial lawyer buddies this morning. Just another thing for my mother to worry about.

It’s dinner time on a Tuesday and we’re rehashing the common ‘what’s for dinner?’ dilemna — he wants a BigMac with fries, I want a salad (hold the dressing).

Now, McDonald’s is bringing John and I one step closer to marital bliss, with their new line of adult “Happy Meals” and low-fat foods.

I don’t have high hopes for the new fare (the Paul Newman salads are kindof gross), but check out the creepy photo of Ronald “training” with Bob Greene.

In the wee hours of waking yesterday morning, I heard a bit on NPR that fed my fancy for picking on simple-minded politicians. Former [ some kind of ] adviser to President Clinton, [ someone whose name I forget ], was discussing Bush’s current obsession with manufacturing jobs. Bush’s staff wants us to believe that by saving manufacturing jobs we can save the economy. [ This former Clinton guy ] posited that manufacturing jobs losses aren’t neccesarily a negative for the overall welfare of the country. What we should be measuring is the % of dollars paid to get a product to market that go to U.S. employees.