Chinese Billionaires die every 40 days?!!!

"A Chinese billionaire dies every 40 days

So here's something you don't want to be: a billionaire in China. In a bizarre report, China Daily released numbers on Friday that showed 72 billionaires in that country have died in the last eight years. So what about the current 115, including Chen Guangbiao, at left? They should be a little nervous. But Daily's report revealed more alarming

truths: of those 72 dead billionaires, 15 were murdered, 17 committed suicide, seven died from accidents and 19 from illness. The remaining 14? They were executed. Guess it's smart to keep that bank balance at $999 million, boys and girls!"

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To Wikileak or Not

It's been a while since I have seen so many people so angry.  I have a few thoughts on the whole Wikileaks saga:

1) Secrets are only supposed to stay secret if you had not previously shared them with 2.5 million people.
2) When the whole world is mad at you for exposing the unseemly underbelly of politics at its rawest, you must be doing something right.
3) Freedom marches on!

The biggest point though is that if the press were doing its duty instead of feeding us a nonsensical diet of Britney, Harry, Lindsay, Kimmie K, Jen, Brad, Angelina, Dancing With The Stars, the latest faux news, water cooler gossip, How bout them Cowboys, Bieber- He's so cute!, Did Kanye meltdown again, who's dating who, did you hear the gruesome tale of, and He said She said Bullcrap, maybe we would not need a Wikileaks.

There was a time when it was responsible journalism to explore government secrets and report on them to keep a bright light shining on what is arguably the most corrupt of professions...or the most corrupting.