Currently, public initiatives offer free, or heavily subsidized, birth control in some states through organizations like Planned Parenthood. With most state budgets in the tank, these options may not be there forever. Some religious groups scoff at the idea of publicly-funded birth control as it flies in the face of their spiritual beliefs; and more seriously, public financing for abortion. We can save abortion for another day, however, it’s safe to say you won’t find too many public health experts on the platform that distributing birth control is a bad idea.

The differences between different economic systems, explained via cow distribution… Hmmmm:

The Group of 20 (G20) met in Scotland over the weekend, bringing together central bankers and financiers of nineteen countries, and the European Union (EU). The collection of nations constitute 80% of world trade and two-thirds of the world’s population. (1) Discussions of “re-balancing” the world economy have taken place over the last few months by members of the G20; those sentiments continued this weekend in St. Andrews, but apparently only in general terms. (2)

The economy is in rough shape, life sucks and the world is probably coming to an end very soon. But as Louis CK made clear with Conan O’Brien, sometimes you gotta look on the bright side:

Milton Friedman is interviewed by Phil Donahue about the “downfalls” of capitalism and free markets. Friedman didn’t see eye to eye.