Too Much Money And Time

So, gazillionaire Steve Fossett is out to break another aviation record by flying around the world like two times without stopping. Apparently he couldn't find any other useful thing to do with his money. I guess all the homeless shelters, human rights groups, environmental charities, and international aid groups are doing just fine so he might as well just piss his money away trying to break pointless records.

I wish this dumbass would find a hobby like stamp collecting or something that would a) keep him out of the news because it's annoying hearing about him all the time, and b) free him up to do something useful with his money, which would basically be anything else you could think of. Seriously, why is this in the news all the time anyway? I have never met anyone who cares about this, but the media seem to think that we are all glued to the TV like he's breaking some new ground, ala Charles Lindbergh or something. Well, he's not.

Why can't Fossett and other super rich guys be more like Millard Fuller, the founder of Habitat For Humanity? A self-made millionaire who actually found something useful and wonderful to do with his money. And he is almost never in the news.

And what exactly is Fossett trying to prove? Flying around the world has been done, even in the nonstop and solo way that he's making this trip (Fossett did this himself last year). Why would you need to go any farther than that. Actually, why would you need to do more than half that? If the place you need to go is farther than half way around the world, then you just went the wrong direction. Really, what's he going to do next? Climb to the top of Mt. Everest and build a 1,000 foot tall ladder to climb higher?

It must be guys like him that answer those spam emails about elarging your penis. And buy Hummers.

Well, I suppose there is hope. He could crash and die, then at least the government would get an estate tax windfall. Maybe then we could re-fund the cuts Bush made in student loans/grants.

So keep your fingers crossed for wind shear.