China's Smoking

Smokin' away!

It seems that America is under a new Red Scare.  This time, it's about China.

Politicians from Obama to Bohner feel that China is getting ahead of America.  Just from last week's State of the Union address Obama incited this motivation that we need to do big things.

Now to calm those pessimists, China has a smoking problem.  Economist and health experts predict that an estimated of 2 million people will die each year from tobacco-related problems in China.  By 2030, that could rise to 3.5 million per year.

According to the article, there are more than 300 million smokers in China.  That's a lot of wasted productivity.  If each smoker wastes about an hour smoking each day, that would be over 101 billion man-hours lost of productivity each year.

Sorry China, but that's a lot of wasted time.

Patriots vs Colts: Game on! and Prediction

A quick clip of thanksgiving before the blood is shed.



The Indianapolis Colts are coming the Gillette Stadium in Foxboro to face the New England Patriots. An interesting article written by one of my high school friends gives some more of the history of this rivalry and why it matters so much to the AFC.

I only care for a good entertaining game...and for my fantasy players to kick some ass while that is happening.

Prediction:
Patriots: 31
Colts: 24

The Patriots have a must win coming done the homeward stretch to the playoffs. The Jets are right on their tail with easier games in front of them.  The Jets just might win the division this year.

For the Colts, they have just not been as explosive this year as they have in the past.  The ways of Tony Dungy has now faded.  They need to be revived in order to compete once more before Peyton retires in the next five years.

The Pats do win it as if it was against the Buffalo Bills.