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Oh another interesting article claims that IT is more stressful than Medicine. I don't know if that's funny or sad .

From John Stossel's Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity:

By failing to account for inflation, the media have some Americans so alarmed that they can't think straight. "What costs more," I asked customers at a gas station, "gasoline or bottled water?" The answer I got from almost everyone was gasoline. At that very gas station, water was for sale at $1.29 for a twenty-four-ounce bottle. That's $6.88 per gallon, three times what the station charged for gasoline. It gets sillier. I asked gas station customers, "What costs more, gasoline or ice cream?" Again, most people said gasoline cost more. But at $3.39 a pint, "premium" ice cream costs about $27.00 a gallon.

We should marvel at how cheap gasoline is-what a bargain we get from oil companies. After all, it's easy to bottle water, but think about what it takes to produce and deliver gasoline. Oil has to be sucked out of the ground, sometimes from deep beneath an ocean. To get to the oil, the drills often have to bend and dig sideways through as much as five miles of earth. What they find then has to be delivered through long pipelines or shipped in monstrously expensive ships, then converted into three or more different formulas of gasoline and transported in trucks that cost more than $100,000 each. Then your local gas station must spend a fortune on safety devices to make sure you don't blow yourself up. At $2.26 a gallon (about forty-six cents of which goes to taxes), gas is miraculously cheap! But what we heard from the clueless media was, "Gas prices are at record highs!"

Speaking of pipelines, I recently saw The Yes Men, a hilarious documentary about some guys who pretend to be representatives of the WTO and actually get invited to conventions to give talks. Hilarity ensues when the presentation becomes absurd, slowly pushing over the edge to see what the listeners will take.The funniest skit was when they were invited to a university and they gave a presentation (including a hilarious CGI animation) of a new McDonald's invention to feed the poor and hungry in 3rd world countries.

The presenters brought in boxes of hamburgers just purchased from McDonalds and gave them freely to the students, setting the stage. They then said that the human body wastes about 80% of what it ingests. They proceeded to describe a new type of burger. The CGI showed a McDonalds bathroom. Someone goes to take a dump, and the human waste is then pumped through various pipes and tubes processing it and going all the way to a 3rd world country's McDonalds, coming out of the pipes to make new not-all-beef patties for customers in turbans.

The students in the audience stop eating their burgers and are appalled. They actually believe it! This skit is just absolute genius, and the movie is worth seeing just for this. It perfectly conveys the concept of shitting on other people.