Finally, a national-politics yard sign I like. * * * * * * * Great quote, especially when you realize it came from a Federal Reserve Chairman: "John Maynard Keynes stated in his 'Economic Consequences of the Peace' (1919): 'Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency...Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of Society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.'" You can find that and other great quotes at this Zero Hedge piece. * * * * * * * Funny Fallon: "I read that the Apple executive who designed the iPhone just bought a new $17 million mansion in California. And if there's any justice at all, he'll find out the new house isn't compatible with any of the furniture from his last house." * * * * * * * My priest's homily last Sunday centered on Edmund Campion. I realized that I've never read anything about this saint, so I went over to Amazon and discovered (actually, was reminded) that Evelyn Waugh wrote a biography of him. Whatta great find. I paid $6 and am now anxiously awaiting its arrival.
