One of the many myths today receiving retrospective support from today’s servants of power is that adherence to the gold standard caused the economy in countries that did so in the 1930s to recover more slowly from the Depression.
As has become the current pattern, the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause keeps providing fodder for the courts.
A mentor of mine, Clarence Carson, published a book in the 1970s entitled The War on the Poor. He took his title from Lyndon Johnson’s so-called “war on poverty.” Carson noted that actual wars are waged against real people rather than circumstances, and that if the government were engaged in a war it must be against some identifiable group of people. In his book, he identified the poor as that group by analyzing the economic impact of the various policies that Johnson pursued.
A company called Moon Publicity is getting attention from blogs and news sites because it promises to let bidders advertise on the face of the Moon through “shadow shaping” technology, using robots to carve lines onto the lunar surface.
So when you look up at the night sky, instead of seeing the same old “Man in the Moon” face, you could see the Nike swoosh or the McDonald’s arches.
