[High Praise! to Seanmahair]

In a land where people can use the most foul, disgusting words imaginable (and some one can’t even imagine) people are being fired, are being threatened with jail, and/or being subjected to death threats for using a word “one group” considers offensive. Really? So the next time someone refers to my ancestors as “micks” or “drunks” or any number of offensive names for the Irish I can threaten them, their family, their businesses? They owe me a big time payout for “offending my sensibilities”. So the words Limies, Krauts, Chinks, Crackers et al are all going to land people in jail for “hate” crimes. Little secret here, people don’t need to call you names to hate you. They can hate you and smile at you all at the same time. Most of them don’t give a rats tail what your ethnicity is, they don’t like you because THEY DON’T LIKE YOU. Please get over yourself, graduate from Middle School and put on you adult panties.

[High Praise! to Gunslinger’s Journal]

True story: Racism and Slavery began in 1776 when the White People of the United States of America began to grow cotton, and decided they needed African slaves to pick it. It was only then that they went directly to Africa to capture charming, civilized, peaceful, literate, cultured, soulful, black folk and force them onto their plantations as slaves.

No one in the world had ever heard of such a thing as slavery before evil White People in the United States of America invaded by the thousands—like savage locusts—the Utopian lands of lushest Africa, and stole, wholesale, the noble natives right out of their huts…er…country cottages…and brutally tore them from their paradisaical homeland of love and brotherhood, and sharing and caring among all the worthy tribes of that majestic land.

I woke up yesterday morning to find this in front of the coffee pot:

I thought maybe I had gotten an arch-nemesis, but it was just SarahK playing around with how she can make custom stamps and deciding to surprise me with an Axe Cop card.

Still, this would be a great card to send to a bad guy you intend to kill.

So this guy is proposing this thing called the “Hyperloop” which will get people from Los Angeles to San Francisco in a half hour. I don’t really get it. If I were like stuck in Los Angeles, I’d want to get out quick, but my destination would not be San Francisco. Now, if it went to Boise and Los Angeles, then I have a quick escape route if for some reason I end up in Los Angeles. But that probably won’t happen often. How about between Boise and Texas — now it would actually be transporting people between useful places. That’s a great idea. I should be a billionaire proposing things, because the ones we have now aren’t very good.

I had never seen this before. It’s called the Fugio Cent and was an early American coin designed by Benjamin Franklin:

What I like is that “Mind Your Business” slogan. It’s a nice idea for money to have helpful advice on it. We should bring that back. Here are some of my ideas for new helpful advice to put on a penny:

* Stop whining.

* Don’t read money and drive.

* Brush your teeth.

* Don’t put on train tracks.

* Good for one wish when deposited in fountain.

* Don’t work; don’t eat.

* If you actually pay for things with these, you’re a jerk.

* Shut up, stupid.

* Collect 99 more and win one item from the dollar store.

* Democrats will take these.

What advice would you put on money?