How I spent my stimulus check: Buying 41 Ron Paul books

Fifty (losing) lottery tickets. Prescription drugs. Bar beers during the NBA playoffs (for a TV-less guy). Those are few of the ways visitors to HowISpentMyStimulus.com used their economic stimulus checks.

A local entry comes from Tom (not this Tom; I checked), a 26-year-old IT professional from Minneapolis, who's hoping for a different kind of stimulation. He says he spent his Bush bucks on 41 copies of Ron Paul's book, "The Revolution: A Manifesto." He writes, "We need a man with sound monetary policies in office to prevent things such as this 'stimulus check' from happening again; stimulate my ass!"