It didn't take long. A woman has filed suit over the aforementioned adult content in the video game 'Grand Theft Auto'. Claims it wasn't suitable for her fourteen year old. Hmmm. It was originally rated 'M' which is for seventeen and older according to the rating system. Why is she giving it to a fourteen year old in the first place? Wasn't suitable? Innapropriate? Look again at the box. GRAND THEFT AUTO. The object is to steal cars and hit on prostitutes fercrysakes. She's buying this for an impressionable teen? I wonder if she has internet access, where adult content is always one or two clicks away and you don't even need to know any secret codes to unlock it. Which brings us back to the real reason for the lawsuit - she's jumping on an opportunity to perhaps make some easy money by acting horrified. Now that is obscene.

The space shuttle is grounded again. There's a push to abolish the program completely. Uhm, knock knock? Anybody home? If our space future needs to take another course entirely, and we aren't sure if the Russians can commit to it either; let's try and get these folks down in one piece and empty the space station before we make that decision. OK?

Though now I'm thinking of job prospects for displaced or converted terrorists. Wanna' strap yourself onto a bomb? That's what turns you on? How about a job in our space program? Do something useful with your life. You just have to accept the fact that spaceships blow up from time to time.

Greenspan is harping on Social Security again. It needs to be fixed, he says. I'm beginning to have a bit more radical opinion. This is based on the fact that Social Security as an American institution came about in 1935. People talk about it as if it has been the staple of retirement systems since the beginning of time. If you start with the historical retirement age of 65, only for the last five years has anybody paid into it for their lifetime. For the last ten years we've been talking about it being broken. It's broken all right. It's a pyramid scheme, and pyramid schemes are illegal because they are fatally flawed over time. Social Security hasn't worked for even one generation. And let's look at the cost and the huge (though not enough) amount of money they've collected. Close it. The government shouldn't be in the pension business. Give all the money back. They can't, they will claim. Unscrupulous people have been spending it. A lot of money is simply gone. Precisely why the government shouldn't be in this business. They're crooks. Would you give your retirement account to the mafia? Same thing. But that's OK. Let bygones be bygones. Count up what you've got. Count out what you owe us. Subtract. Find out the loss percentage. We'll let you slide for the difference, just give us our money back.

Just think about what effect you might see from roughly 1.5 trillion dollars being injected back into the economy... Some would squander it, some would invest it. Either way, it would trigger the largest economic expansion of any society in history.