There's Lithium in Them Thar Hills!

Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould notes that "the Obama administration dredges up a new reason for staying in Afghanistan past the 2011 deadline" — Afghanistan, the Saudi Arabia of Lithium? I'm doubtful, given country's violent history.

Steve Sailer noted that "that El Paso has long been famous for an anomalously low crime rate," quoting a four-decade-old study finding that "El Paso's water is heavily laced with lithium" — El Paso's low crime rate.