An economic update

I cannot take credit for this, but I did feel it necessary to place it somewhere conspicuous.

I you had purchased $1000 of Delta Air Lines stock one year ago you would have $49 left. With Enron, you would have $16.50 left of the original $1000. With WorldCom you would have less than $5. However, if you had purchased $1000 worth of beer one year ago, drank the beer, then turned in the cans for the recycling REFUND you would have $214.

Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink and recycle. It's called the 401-Keg.

Recent studies found that Americans walk about 900 miles a year (abysmally small compared with the rest of the world). Another study found that Americans drink, on average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year. That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles to the gallon.