I totally respect the Economist, but are they really saying something about the pointlessness of the drug war that I haven't heard a thousand times over already? Furthermore does it belong on a site devoted primarily to programming topics?
What next, some really intelligent analysis of Ron Paul?
It seems it does based on the voting. We also had a post by Tim Ferriss on the top of the page for nearly two days last week, not programmer specific but it was enjoyed / hated and had a good discussion going on about it.
This site is vastly related to programming and startups, but other topics that are of interest and thought provoking tend to rise up as an interest.
We don't have kittens on the front page, so I consider it a victory.
Yes, it does belong here, because it's interesting, and it's not like Hacker News is flooded with drug stories. It's okay to have the occasional off-topic article if it's one of the best of its genre.
There have also been intelligent, interesting stories about Ron Paul on Hacker News. For example this one ;-)
Man, I know you were joking, but suddenly I feel that a psychological/humor-driven analysis of popular memes might be a fascinating article to read/write.
