If you're worried about radiation from that cellphone in your pocket, has Levi Strauss got a deal for you. A new line of pants for the paranoid, manufactured under Levi's Dockers brand, provides radiation-resistant pockets for your cellphone or other bad-juju-emitting devices.

It may surprise you to know that I approve of this sort of thing. Oh, I don't plan on spending any of my own money on this nonsense; if I ever had any lingering doubts about the health effects of cellphones, Steven den Beste put them to rest some time ago.

No, you see, I like this for the same reason I like state lotteries (and gambling in general), Nigerian con-game spam, and other means of separating fools from their money. I like the idea of taxing stupidity, for the same reason many people like "sin taxes": what you tax, you discourage. If you make stupidity expensive, smart people will be more prosperous in comparison. As Larry Niven would say, think of it as evolution in action.