In our continuing series on the ever-present and exponentially accelerating cultural decay of the West, we now move from the Justin Bieber mania and plastic surgery to, you guessed it: Kids on leashes! Yes they make such things so you don’t even need to retrofit your dog leash for said purpose. Amazon.com has a delightful [...]

Andrew recently pointed out that society’s taste in Google keyword choices may point to a cultural decay. Justin Bieber is great and all, but those 124,000,000 folks Googling his name probably aren’t tuned in to the vital matters of the day. And it got me to thinking: what other signs point to a breakdown in our skin-deep civilization?

Rand Paul just cannot catch a break in the media. It all started after his primary victory over Trey Grayson when he told Rachel Maddow he philosophically disagreed with one out of the 10 titles to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, he was pretty much tarred and feathered constantly for an entire week of 24 hour news cycles.

Barack Obama…….4,090,000
Justin Bieber………124,000,000

Yes that’s one hundred twenty four million monthly searches, 3100% more than the president during a major global recession. It shouldn’t be long now…

He knows nothing about economics whatsoever, but he’s entertaining to listen to. And he’s certainly right about one thing: it is an absolute joke that personal finance, basic accounting and basic economics are not part of the typical high school curriculum:

We’ve written before in favor of gay marriage, so I guess I’m happy to see Prop 8 overturned by a federal judge. Unfortunately, we’ve also written in favor of federalism and I see nothing in the Constitution pertaining to marriage. Regardless, I find the progressive “victory” yesterday somewhat ironic. The reason I find it ironic is because although gay marriage is a cause celeb for progressives, assuming the federal ruling holds up, the progressive “victory” was won in a completely anti-democratic way.

There seems to be more circumstantial evidence that SwiftEconomics is having some influence. Online University Reviews has ranked SwiftEconomics as the 29th best Twitter feed to follow the economy.

[Nullification] is a form of civil disobedience with a twist. The twist being that its a state government that is sanctioning the disobedience and in effect saying ‘we are going to shield our people from any consequences of that disobedience.

The sheer amount of time people spend on these sites updating their status via cell phone about their drive to work, writing witty remarks on other people’s status’ about their drive to work, installing some random application and whatever spyware it has attached to it, sending mass invitations to some raging drunkfest, joining groups about how much they like going to raging drunkfests or poking someone they want to have sex with is simply becoming ridiculous.

The idea is still, nonetheless, ridiculous. So I was happy to see an article by Senate candidate Peter Schiff lampooning the idea of war being good for an economy (and stimulus in general) in his latest column Why Not Have Another World War. World War is key because obviously the two wars we’re fighting now “are simply too small.”