Posted on Thursday, October 08, 2009 11:00 AM
Online items that have gripped my attention the last few days:
- At lot of talk on the demise of the dollar following on the report of moves to stop using the dollar for oil trading. Here is the HuffPo, Yahoo and Washington’s Blog with some background on the issue. Related: I don’t usually pay much attention to market analysts blabbing away on TV. A case of hot air discussing hot air usually. But this clip is something I have not seen before on business TV.
- You know, there are not that many South Africans I respect and feel proud about. So attempts to discredit the Goldstone report really pisses me of. Here, here and here are some related posts well worth reading. Thanx to The Huffington Post (again and again) and Matt Yglesias at ThinkProgress.
- Nick Gillespie of Reason Magazine has this extensive reappraisal of Ayn Rand. I must admit I have not read it properly yet, but only skimming through it was enough to make me bookmark this for further study. As much as I vehemently disagree with Rand, no student of 20th century society or Science Fiction can afford not to take note of her. She seems to be the origin of an unfortunately un-endangered species, the crazy conservative.
- And finally, an item about unforeseen consequences that really did put a smile on my face.
Enjoy.