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Late O-Bloggers

Three more OBlogger Posts of the Week came in on Saturday after I posted my round-up and I'm feeling kind (and don't want to work yet) so here they are:

Diana sent two links out: One about Shakespeare in Colorado and the other about a turtle that attacks cats. I don't know why.

Kim has a funny post about smack-talking philosophizers. Dig Ayn Rand's comment "Man - all of mankind - is an end in himself, not the means to the ends of others. But your mama is so fat, this means she never ends." Daaaaaaaaaaaaayum!

John Drake highlights another instance where money becomes undervalued when markets abandon the gold standard. (For those who think the gold standard is silly, I submit that alternatives are available: diamond standard, platinum standard, silver standard... The point is to stabilize the monetary market by linking it to a commodity of objective value and limited availability so that money can't undergo horrible fluxes like inflation and devaluation such as is seen today.) I would also remind readers that the US penny was in the same boat not so long ago. (I'm not sure if that's still the case.)