Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Dirty Money For Dirty Water: Groups Supporting Bill to Gut Clean Water Act Outspend Opposition 23 To 1: Guest Blogger
- Sen. Coburn Proposes Eliminating The Dollar Bill To Reduce The Deficit – Coburn’s bad math aside, it’s still a good idea. And I don’t say that often about Sen Coburn.
- Perry Won’t Take Responsibility For Radical Attendees At His Prayer Event – You can’t always vet everyone who endorses you, though if you do discover an endorser who has a significantly different position from you, it behooves you to be ready to explain the difference, or even note it proactively. But Perry’s trying to have it both ways here — soliciting folks to stand up on stage with him, accepting the support of their supporters, but not taking responsibility for what they say that some disagree with (including, with vague hand-waving, himself).
- Bad News For Lamb Fans – Sorry, Margie …
- Mozilla outlines goals for multiprocess browsing implementation – Mozilla seriously needs to deal with is browser performance issues.
- VA Woman’s Garage Sale Not Open To Gays, Muslims Or Immigrants – Whenever you find yourself writing “i am not racist or a bigot, but …” you should probably consider whether, in fact, you are. (You should also consider capitalizing “I”.)
- mental_floss Blog » Creepy Russian Propaganda Posters – I like the Lenin one.
- Herman Cain Contradicts Himself on ‘Separation of Church and State’ – Dolt.
- New York Panoramas 1902-1913: Chris
- College Students Can Now Rent Textbooks Electronically From Amazon – Clever idea.
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Dollar coins ARE a good idea, and the new Polk dollars are quite nice. But if we’re going to do this we need to eliminate pennies, too.
Been having a parallel discussion on this on Buzz, and both pennies and nickels cost more to make than they are worth, apparently (per Doyce). The issue is either you arbitrarily round off (inevitably up) all prices (and taxes) to the nearest unit of some sort (dime?), which causes all sorts of consumer backlash and voter outrage, or you still need a way to track things down to the penny.
Although, I tend to use plastic for 98% of my purchases — and ones that require cash are usually whole bill amounts, with the change dumped into a tip jar. But I’m reluctant to treat my experience as average.