The entrepreneurial spirit of the United States is often cited as one of its better qualities. I agree on some level, its great that anyone with an idea can go out and give it a shot. But a side effect of this is that every single conceivable market niche is filled with people trying to live out the american dream of getting rich selling some sort of obscure useless crap:

“Christian perfume,” he said. “It’s a really, really new genre. We’re the first!”

I mean, can’t people do things without trying to figure out a way to monetize them? You want to be a crazy christian, fine. But do you really need to productize crazy christianity?

Your new SecDef:

[Gates] said it may require a new law to “address the concerns about some of these people who really need to be incarcerated forever but that doesn’t get them involved in a judicial system where there is the potential of them being released,” Gates told the House Defense Appropriations subcommittee.

Ah, yes, isn’t it so annoying that we have to get involved in a judicial system before we incarcerate someone forever? Stupid constitution…

Link from Pandagon.