A day in the life of the president reveals that Barack Obama’s job would be almost unrecognizable to most of his predecessors—thanks to the enormous bureaucracy, congressional paralysis, systemic corruption (with lobbyists spending $3.5 billion last year), and disintegrating media.

I don't know much about sports. Even less about football, but occasionally I get wrangled into playing in a Fantasy Football league. Yesterday was the draft...so how did I do?

Brilliant, but sad. The bus stop, in front of the Benrath Senior Centre in the western city of Düsseldorf, is an exact replica of a standard stop, with one small difference: buses never stop there. The purpose is to "trap" Alzheimer patients that wander away from the hospital. "They know the green and yellow bus sign and remember that waiting there means they will go home.” The result is that errant patients now wait for their trip home at the bus stop, before quickly forgetting why they were there in the first place."

Collection of great movie insults...Anything missing?

The Better Marriage Blanket...stop odors where that start...Night Toots.

Quick video showing how fast some football players are compared to average people. (by average people, they mean one guy wearing a suit). Still amazing.

In the April issue of Wired, there's a story about Gerald Blanchard, a most ingenious thief.

Oxidize isn't a personal finance blog, but this link was pretty interesting to me. Take a day off, once a year, to adjust your finances. Considering the potential effect this appears to be time well spent.

Since there Oxidize hasn't had a good argument in awhile, and just because I am curious, what are people's thoughts on the recent Health Care Reform legislation? Good, Bad, Ugly, or other?

Interesting excerpt from Michael Lewis' new book "The Big Short", focusing on how a select few financial analysts figured out how to short the credit bubble and make fortunes. Big fortunes.