Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Down with the penny!

Matt Yglesias comes out against our nation's proudest form of currency. It must have something to do with his visceral hatred of our nation's greatest leaders. Does he have a problem with Abraham Lincoln?

Seriously, though, I wonder if there every will be a point when nobody uses paper money and everything financial is done electronically.

The Man, The Myth, The Bio

East Bay, California, United States
Problem: I have lots of opinions on politics and culture that I need to vent. If I do not do this I will wind up muttering to myself, and that's only like one or two steps away from being a hobo. Solution: I write two blogs. A political blog that has some evident sympathies (pro-Obama, mostly liberal though I dissent on some issues, like guns and trade) and a culture blog that does, well, cultural essays in a more long-form manner. My particular thing is taking overrated things (movies, mostly, but other things too) down a peg and putting underrated things up a peg. I'm sort of the court of last resort, and I tend to focus on more obscure cultural phenomena.