Crazy Frog Going to Jail? Read all about it:

The regulator that oversees premium-rate phone services is launching a probe into the wildly popular 'Crazy Frog' mobile phone ringtone, after complaints that it dupes children into signing up for an expensive subscription plan.

From Reuters: Probe launched into "Crazy Frog" sales tactics

One More Reason to Drop the Spoon: It's expensive.

Overall, employers and privately insured families spent $36.5 billion on obesity-linked illnesses in 2002, up from an inflation-adjusted $3.6 billion in 1987. That's up from 2% of total health care spending on obesity in 1987 to 11.6% in 2002...

From USA Today: Health spending soars for obesity

More Evidence on the Growing Cat Menace: Consider yourself warned.

'If you have a cat, or a dog for that matter, be careful where they urinate,' Oyabu said. 'Especially keep them away from electrical appliances and wires.'

From Reuters: Cats use fax as toilet, spark house fire

Social Security Choice: You should have a choice about joining the greatest pyramid scheme of all time. Our government should keep its promises and I'll be glad to pay into that. But leave some for the rest of us and give us a choice.

Many people think that the Social Security taxes they pay are held in interest-bearing accounts earmarked for their own future retirement needs. The fact is that Social Security is a pay-as-you-go retirement system—the Social Security taxes paid by today’s workers and their employers are used to pay the benefits for today’s retirees and other beneficiaries.

The Future of Social Security,
SSA Publication No. 05-10055, ICN 462560, March 2005

Better ideas are out there.

From the Cato Institute: 450 Economists Endorse Social Security Choice