Vandal With a Handle

For only an estimated $160,000 you can have one of these, a polycarbonate armored, biohazard filtered, air conditioned, computer controlled bed. You can have two of them so you can sleep in one room in one and have your kids sleeping in another and still talk to them and watch them on closed-circuit tv. But, of course, that doubles the price. You also have to have a floor capable of supporting a ton. That's one ton per bed. There are a number of options to keep you safe from kidnappers, stalkers, terrorists and other hazards. My imagination fails me, and I have a pretty good one. WHO is going to buy this?

An interview with presidential candidate Michael Badnarik is available here. "Who?" you say? He's the Libertarian Party candidate. Check it out. Quote:

I only have one priority as a candidate - and as an individual - and that is the restoration of the Bill of Rights and of constitutional government in America. There are various ways of going about it, but that's the priority.

It's good to hear him say it even if his chance of election is nil. How about this?

AFP: Mr. Badnarik, can you tell us about other Libertarian policy objectives?
Badnarik: "It's not difficult to derive my policy objectives, or those of the Libertarian Party. One need only ask two questions about a proposal: Does it make us freer, or less free? And, does the Constitution allow it, or not?
"We've spent 200 years making government complicated. But at bottom, it isn't complicated. Jefferson got it right in the Declaration of Independence: Governments are instituted among men to secure our rights. Anything less than that, or anything more, and we're in trouble.
"I want to restore the kind of government that our founders bequeathed us and that we've foolishly walked away from.