So, this morning my mother (who is in town visiting) informed me that she saw an article which suggested that guns were a better investment than stocks. When I arrived at work, and my browser came up with MSNBC, I saw the link pictured at right.
Curious, I clicked the link and was taken to this url:
http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/topstocks/?fpn=guns%20a%20better%20buy%20than%20stocks
Note that it actually has the text on guns in the url. Now, the mutability of web content both makes this story interesting, and also makes it somewhat untraceable and shitty, but believe me when I say, following that link went to the MSN MoneyBlog page, and that page didn't have a single mention of the word “gun” in it.
That's odd, right? They've got a link on the homepage to an article about guns being better investments than stocks, but then following that link has no mention of guns...
When I google “guns a better buy than stocks” I find the actual article:
http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/topstocks/archive/2009/04/16/guns-a-better-buy-than-stocks.aspx
Already archived... With an April 16th posted date. If I go look at the MoneyBlog, I see that the front page has posts from April 15th through today (the 17th). So this article didn't just fall off the front page due to its age. It's not on the page for some deliberate reason.