funny, depressing things that are real

In Saudi Arabia, the country we send probably more American dollars to than any other, women do not have the right to vote, drive a car, seek employment, testify in court, or even leave the house (unless a male accompanies them). Also, sorcery is a crime punishable by death (magic is legally REAL) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_rights_in_Saudi_Arabia

Much of the world still believes marijuana is the key to failure in life, even after the leader of the free world admitted to using it, as well as 14-gold-medal winner and 37-world-records swimmer Michael Phelps. Meanwhile, tobacco continues to slaughter 400,000 Americans each year (http://drugwarfacts.org/cms/?q=node/30).

We are destined to end up a cold and lonely galaxy, ignorant of the fact that there once was a whole universe out there to explore...but that's a hundred billion years away, so smile in the meantime =) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo skip to 51 minutes in)

The ichneumon wasp has adapted it's evolution to the point where it exists solely to inject mind-control fluid directly into cockroach brains and turn them into zombies. They then lead the roaches down to a burrow and plant an egg inside of them that hatches and eats the paralyzed zombie-roach alive over the next seven days. If a God designed this, it had to of been the Old Testament version. This was the bug that shook Darwin's faith, hah. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN2XMyxAs5o)

The top 1% of Americans have more financial wealth than the bottom 95% combined. Capitalism dropped the ball, not as hard as communism, but the numbers don't look good. (http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html)

It is physically impossible to care for more than 150 people in the world. Your brain literally does not have room for any more sympathy than that. Another tragic design flaw you'd think God would seen coming, but he also overlooked that whole appendix thing so I don't know how much credit we can reasonably give anyways. (http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html)

There are people in the world who think President Bush was like Xanatos from Gargoyles, meticulously planning to have the WTC bombed with retarded amounts of hidden explosives that he'd smuggled in over a period of months past the bomb dogs and cameras, paying off thousands of witnesses and controlling everything behind the scenes, completing his gambit by manipulating American fears into Operation Iraqi Freedom. Yet somehow he couldn't smuggle one.little.WMD into Iraq to make it look like he hadn't wasted 4 years, a trillion dollars, and 4000 American lives. Also, there is no such thing as an eclipse. The sun only gets blocked because Stephen Colbert swings his testicles in the way. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa-4E8ZDj9s)

There are more Komodo dragons in Indonesia than everywhere else in the known universe combined! Kinda makes you proud, doesn't it?