Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Neal Adams at Dragons Lair

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Neal Adams was in town for Comic Con , signing his art at our favorite comics and fantasy store Dragons Lair .  If you are not a fan of com...
Sunday, November 17, 2013

Stadtluft macht frei

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"City air makes you free" is a secular prayer from the Middle Ages. If a serf could evade re-capture for a year and a day, the m...
Sunday, November 10, 2013

Minimizing the Likelihood of Bad Cops

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Recent stories touted by Glenn Beck and flashing across the patriotic blogosphere tell of egregious transgressions by city police officers. ...
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Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Money as Press and Speech

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Just as coins spoke the language of politics in ancient Rome , industrial England , and the USA of the antebellum era, paper money also ca...
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Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Raymond Loewy

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Today's Google Doodle celebrated the 120th birthday of Raymond Loewy, the father of industrial design.   Raymond Loewy is called “t...
Sunday, November 3, 2013

god is not Great

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god is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens ( New York : Twelve, 2007) delivers a coordinated series of comp...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

Industrial Medals a Currency of Fame

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Most people call it “coin collecting” but numismatics is the art and science that studies the forms and uses of money. That includes money-...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Tokens of Capitalism

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In the popular adventure Pirates of the Caribbean: at World's End , Jack Sparrow and his friends must battle an array of bad guys headed...
Sunday, October 27, 2013

Money Without Banks and Governments

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The Stock Market Crash of 1929 marked the onset of the Great Depression, but it took 30 months for the banks to fail. After all, the stock m...