Any long-time reader of DNSLNS (all three of you) know how much I love Lego bricks.  I've posted about them quite a bit and as Proverbs instructs us, I'm training my child up in the way he should go... Benaiah has thousands of Lego bricks (usually dumped all over the place) and two Wii games.

A bit too political for my tastes, but Legofesto has been recreating curent events as an interesting way to protest (if you can call it that).  Hit the jump for the blog and more pics.

Sometimes I think about how much money Bill Gates has.  Not exactly sure what the today's estimates are but it usually hovers around $50 Bil or so.  Like how I just tossed that out there.  I can get my brain around a million dollars... or even 10 or 100 million.  But $50 Billion?  That means Bill Gates has $50 Thousand Million Dollars.  He could give me and the people around me $50 Million each and not even feel it.

But Bill Gates has nothing on the recent "stimulus-recovery-reinvestment-bailout-insert-euphemism-for-welfare-here-package" that everyone has been talking about.  Like the BBC says, "For the US Government, the Trillion is the new Billion."  And because they rhyme, we think they're close.  Not even.  So what does $1 Trillion dollars look like anyway?

Let's start with a $100 dollar bill. Currently the largest U.S. denomination in general circulation. Most everyone has seen them, slighty fewer have owned them.  For my older readers, these are referred to as "Benjamins" in the rap world.  So now you know.