Anything but water

• A summary of the stupidity of the War on Drugs (guns + prison + corruption)
  
  
• Cool panorama views (mostly Russia but also Maldives, NZ, etc.)
  
  
• The US has undermined democracy in Pakistan, is failing in Afghanistan* (mostly b/c it's a quagmire; also see an insider's story of how the Bush administration lost Afghanistan), and has launched many wars based on lies and misinformation to citizens. I saw a TV interview where Julian Assange (Wikileaks) said that "citizens with full information rarely support war."
  
  
• Are Roads Public Goods, Club Goods, Private Goods, or Common Pools? [PDF] Hint: Not public.
  
  
• Bloggers with ethics are starting to displace desperate journalists who will take press releases and agit/prog as stories. In other technology news, Amazon is now selling more Kindle eBooks than physical books (The End of Abundance will be available in Kindle, paperback, PDF and ePub, I hope :)

H/T to RM, JWT and JW