"Never attribut to malice, that which can as easily be explained by stupidity", is a truism i'm very fond of.

However, it certainly doesn't hold for greed. In fact, i'd say you are safe to not attibute to stupidity that which can just as well be explained by greed. (Though it's not like they are mutually exclusive)

Research on Ecstasy Is Clouded by Errors [...]

I'm o.k. with the Lust. And i can't exactly cast the first stone as far as avarice goes, but, I've still got some puritanism in me, i'm afraid and it bothers me when someone runs a bank into the ground at taxpayer expense and gets 2 million for, what exactly? (no really, someone tell me.) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3240756.stm [...]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/20031105/ts_washpost/a64780_2003nov4

[...]

Hey, this blog is now official.

[...]

I was recently reading in slate (http://www.slate.com) some moron saying that there are "strong arguments on each side" of the issue of whether or not the right to keep and bear arms is an individual or a collective right. [...]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20030922/ap_on_fe_st/cat_infestation&e=1 (buh, this link is no longer good try the next one...)
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/sep03/171083.asp?format=print

They "rescued" 130 cats from an abandoned house. Owner died in 1997 but the owner's "adult son" had been returning to feed the cats. Now, obviously the city needs to do something, but why do they have to call it a "rescue".? I mean, does anyone actually believe they are going to find homes for 130 cats. No, they are going to kill them. But of course the article doesn't SAY that, it says they have been taken to an "animal control facility until authorities can figure out what to do with them." Umm, correct me if i'm wrong here but i'm pretty damn certain that "authorities" know JUST what to do with them, they do it every day.

ahh, well this goes to show, i think, that even double-speak can rarely be attributed to malice.

Men paid to sleep with widows, singles http://csua.org/u/3z7 [...]

Wow, how's this for a quote of the day...

"We learned from German researcher Dr. johanna Budwig years ago that the start of all degenerative disease can be traced to faulty fat metabolism and our photon/electron connection. It's now been confirmed that she was right." [...]

Would someone please explain to me why anyone would give one rat's ass about which design is on the back of the California Quarter. I'm sitting here trying to think of something I care less about (failing, in case you were wondering) and yet NUMEROUS people are out there trying to get out the vote. Encouraging me to play along.

I just don't get it.

[...]