My Life is Complete if Someone Buys Me This! ...not.

So, they have reached a new plateau of lame inventions:
The USB Toaster.

Plug it into your computer and you can put that picture of your dead Aunt Mary's left shoulder blade you've been saving right on your toast and eat it.
As cool as this thing is, I think everyone who actually spends whatever ridiculous price they charge for this item should be forced to spend an equal amount to a charity, just from sheer waste of money.
There are so many things that I feel guilty spending money on because I don't feel they're valuable - like textbooks - and I feel like so much of my life requires money. And I'm not talking about things of sentimental value, like flowers, because that's a great investment. If you at any point spend money for the good of someone else, like flowers, then that's amazing because it means you value that person's feelings more than money.
At the same time, however, money should be valued as a means of meeting basic needs for yourself and others. Keep in mind that money itself is not a need, it is merely a way of attaining needs. This was an idea invented by people so everyone could have different jobs and still eat.
Now we have rich people buying psychic toasters and poor people eating rice 3 times a week if they're lucky.
I'd much rather be the guy who first and foremost provided for his family, then helped provide for someone else and still sacrificed enough to buy his wife flowers.

I wouldn't even be able to eat a piece of toast with a picture on it, anyways.
Especially not if it was like a bunny or a baby or something.

Hmm, okay also because none of you read the little sidebar thing, I'm just going to start posting the joke of the week and the random link of the week and stuff as individual blogs...
Starting after I finish that major paper... heheheh.