You are what you eat, I suppose. I had an interesting thought about caloric restriction the other day -- it seems more likely that the activity reduction brought on by caloric reduction is the real cause of it's life extension. No wear and tear to repair = longer life. I can understand why many would prefer simply to burn brighter.
About the real difference between effective workers and those just going through the motions. It's not enough to ape your betters, you have to become better. Individual virtue matters.
So much for being 'against the terrorists'. Personally I don't care who firms sell weapons to, .gov shouldn't be involved at all -- profits for defense firms would be higher as someone here would arm their enemies as well.
It would be interesting to see who is taking on the entrepeneurial role of capital allocator in chief. I suspect it's being done, and perhaps better than otherwise.
