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* Nice sword-and-sorcery vignettes, in an early 20th-century style.
* It's Greek to me in different languages. From swan_tower.
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Swiss_dinar
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_money#Warehouse_receipts
* Pre-Lydian coins?
* Code of the Hittites. And of Hammurabi if you haven't read it before.
* 1977 Time article on writing roots in record keeping. Old obviously, but the dates in it are earlier than I'd heard.
* Vampire bat plague
* Violence among the Gebusi

* British reaction against the police state
* Primates as pets
* Bunning threatens to resign, get replaced by Democrat. From electoral-vote.com
* CRPG cliches
* Should we believe Standard and Poors ratings? And a reminder of one part of the crisis: AAA securities that weren't.
* A series of posts on the UN anti-defamation of religion resolution: commentary, text and votes, source for vote. Short form: most liberal countries voted against or abstained; the thing may be a "don't criticize Islam" resolution.

* Rahm Emanuel calls Rush Limbaugh the voice and intellectual energy of the GOP.
* Conservapedia on Obama. From James.
* Mugabe calls for last white farmers/plantation owners to leave.
* Watermelons for the Whitehouse
* Swastika-bama for Michelle Malkin

Comments

[love_archived]

Of course you shouldn't believe S&P ratings. Some so-called triple-A ratings are given because the peer group of said security is other similar low-ranked securities. In other words, it's only triple-A within the B-ranked peer group. In absolute ratings the thing is still a B.