Money to burn

Apparently, Trekkies have more money than they know what to do with. Somebody just paid $132,000 for a model of the Enterprise at the Sotheby’s Star Trek memorabilia auction. Maybe that makes sense if you own a Star Fleet uniform but I am hard pressed to think of a bigger waste of money.

Oh wait, I know; Iraq.

The war has cost us, thus far, nearly 2800 lives and over $400 billion. Our current burn rate is $8 billion a month. New estimates put the total cost of the war in the trillions. What has our investment bought us? Chaos and death in Baghdad.

In comparison, I guess purchasing wretchedly overpriced Star Trek crap is a much more worthy pursuit.