R-Word: coRRuption

President Obama may be taking heat for his casually offensive reference to the Special Olympics, but more disturbing was his humorous reference to a campaign promise being obviously worthless (min 23:10 on Hulu). "Ha ha. You all know all politicians just talk shit."

Oh ha ha. It's funny because it's true.

Some numbers I have run across today:

.01 - Amount of gold (g) it takes to buy a loaf of bread in Zimbabwe

173, 000, 000, 000 - Tax dollars given to AIG, current as of this post

.097 - Percent of those tax dollars given as bonus' to AIG employees

21, 000, 000, 000 - Estimated amount in dollars "missing" from Iraq

28 - Number of pages removed from next months UN anti racism conference declaration draft after the US and EU complained of calls for slavery reparations and defamation of religion

19 - Actual age of Denzel Whitaker, who I predict will be the next Denzel Washington

12 - Average age people think Denzel Whitaker is when they see his picture.