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Cracked provides really simple, funny, digestible articles. I never used Digg but Reddit's design has the problem of promoting shallow content, Digg might have been similar. I'm actually quite surprised that we don't see more of Cracked on Reddit.

He has more power now than we would as a congressman.

Peace Corps was founded during the height of the cold war, when everyone was paranoid about spying. Development workers are often suspected of being intelligence agents. In this case, host countries are accepting employees of the United States government to come into their country and live within their communities. Sending former intelligence agents just looks terrible, even if they are no longer working in that capacity.

The Peace Corps actually asks three or so times whether you've had contact with any of the intelligence agencies or anyone in your family has.

The whole American economy is based on speculative housing and the government backstop to keep it always trending up. It's what all of the 2007 recession was about.

Can you go into any more detail about what you think is harder and what you think is easier?