So I guess the USC game is tomorrow night, eh?

Most expensive assassination ever?

Kevin Baron at National Journal seems to think so.  I tend to agree.

"Call him the billion-dollar man. One billion for one dictator.

According to the Pentagon, that was the cost to U.S. taxpayers for Muammar el-Qaddafi’s head: $1.1 billion through September, the latest figure just out of the Defense Department.

And that’s just for the Americans..."

But hey, at least we got some bonus results out of our billions of (borrowed) greenbacks. In addition to getting the colonel whacked and leaving various weapons systems unaccounted for, we also cleared the way for the Islamists to take over another oil-producing nation.

What could go wrong?

(Update) - A well-written article that answers my tongue-in-cheek hypothetical can be found at The Week.  In short - a whole hell of a lot could and probably will go wrong, starting with the fact that every tyrant in the world now sees what happened when their dictator buddies tried to cooperate with the US. 

Are you smarter than a protester?

Given that I turned out to be kinda sorta right in my last post, I figured I'd wade back into this hippie business one more time.  I can't say for certain that Edward T. Hall III was faking his rant, but he's a Columbia grad student who inherited a trust fund from his grandfather.  That's more than I can say for myself or anyone that I know personally, and none of us are in tears over the fact that we have to work for a living, so I'm sticking with the notion that he's a phony.

Therefore, I present to you the quiz of the day, showing just how brilliant these new revolutionaries turn out to be about the issues that matter most to them.  I post this not so much in an effort to mock these people for being idiots.  I think most people are idiots, so it would be unfair to single out these poor dumb bastards for ridicule in that context.  In fact, I post this to make a more logical point.  I'll phrase this logical point in the form of a few questions.

• How can you rail against the "system" when you clearly have no idea how that system works?
• How can you blame your situations on Wall Street (and presumably we're not talking about the four blocks of pavement in lower Manhattan) when you don't know anything about the various ways in which Wall Street is regulated?
• How can you argue for higher taxes on the "1%" when you don't even know what their current tax rates are?

Anyhow, those are my questions/points.  As for the results - Read 'em and weep.

That military one ranks right up there with the Tea Partiers' ignorance about foreign aid, for whatever that's worth.