Radical idea: Members of Congress and close family members should be barred from owning stock in weapons manufacturing companies.
Even more radical idea: Weapons manufacturing companies should not be allowed to go public to begin with. All that does is create a legal venue for war profiteering.
Today's background listening has been a playlist of the latest UNGA addresses, a great perk of life after the Internet. It used to be that the only speech you'd hear about was the one given by your head of state. Listening to all the addresses though, you realize that the world is ripe with far more problems than are represented in whatever media you have access to. Far, far more, and I am now genuinely depressed.
Some of the speeches were really quite interesting though. I may make a list of my favorite in the near future.