A Boston native, a baseball shrine and a baby’s first game are some of the photos in round 2 of the Ultimate Fan contest. Vote for your favorite!
Virtuous acts you must perform eight hundred;
Secret merits you must amass three thousand.
Let thing and self, kin and foe, be treated equally –
Only that suits the primal vow of Western Heaven.
Which direction will you journey this weekend?
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Oh, if only! “We should raise the bar on our policy makers. Avoiding the fiscal cliff with yet another Rube Goldberg fix isn’t good enough. Taxpayers should insist on real reforms that respect the basic principles of economics and of common sense.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-03/forget-the-cliff-fix-the-u-s-tax-system-stevenson-and-wolfers.html
I know there is a lot of garbage, insanity and immorality on the internet, but I am also enchanted to find so many really smart people who can help us all navigate the political, partisan, greed filled waters of surviving the modern age.
If only we could find a way for politicians to listen to them too.
I’m sorry that I post so many links to other blogs I find interesting but, again, I find the writings of the Barefoot Bum worth reading.
In this article he discusses some of the limitations to having a gold-standard for money. He explains it in a way I can understand it, which is to say, simply.
I think we have some advocates of the gold-standard here so they might find it especially interesting.
http://barefootbum.blogspot.com/2013/01/economic-growth-and-gold-standard.html
Here’s a story I find so uplifting it makes me want to cry from happiness.
Seems Uruguay’s President is a simple and humble man.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/05/world/americas/after-years-in-solitary-an-austere-life-as-uruguays-president.html?pagewanted=all
…Visitors reach Mr. Mujica’s austere dwelling after driving down O’Higgins Road, past groves of lemon trees. His net worth upon taking office in 2010 amounted to about $1,800 — the value of the 1987 Volkswagen Beetle parked in his garage. He never wears a tie and donates about 90 percent of his salary, largely to a program for expanding housing for the poor. ….
INDEED, if there is any country in South America where a president can drive a Beetle and get by without a large entourage of bodyguards, it might be Uruguay, which consistently ranks among the region’s least corrupt and least unequal nations. While crime is emerging as more of a concern, Uruguay remains a contender for the region’s safest country. ….
He laments that so many societies considered economic growth a priority, calling this “a problem for our civilization” because of the demands on the planet’s resources. (Interestingly enough, Uruguay’s economy is still expanding comfortably at an estimated annual rate of 3.6 percent.) ….
After that, the president jumped around subjects, from anthropology and cycling to Uruguayans’ love for beef. He said he could not dream of retiring, but looked forward to his post-presidency, when he hopes to farm full time again…..