tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post373720467709726073..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: Quickies: Around The WebFrancis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-4063629602908918272014-01-17T12:22:40.661-05:002014-01-17T12:22:40.661-05:00The Mask Slippage one really shows the imbalances ...The Mask Slippage one really shows the imbalances in the Progressive theology, especially when contrast with your last quickies about the BBC. It blows my mind how any rational person can hold two diametrically opposed views within the same issue. (We have to do this because it is compassionate to kill these people?)<br /><br />I must confess I do get an undue amount of entertainment from pointing out these divergent positions to my liberal in-laws when they pop up. It makes my day when the father in-law stands there with his mouth moving, and nothing coming out as his mind does backflips to make it all fit. <br /><br />Fran, thanks for a great read this morning.<br />Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11410760001317154919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-44515627163826289462014-01-15T11:05:48.820-05:002014-01-15T11:05:48.820-05:00Several months ago at The American Conservative on...Several months ago at The American Conservative one of their writers who was ga-ga over bitcoin posted <a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/why-whiskey-was-money-and-bitcoins-might-now-be/" rel="nofollow">When whiskey was money and Bitcoins might be</a>. Just the headline alone was enough to set off my BS detector.<br />Because while yes, in post-revolution America whiskey <i>was</i> money, the reason it was is also the reason Bitcoin can't be.<br />Whiskey can easily be tested for both quantity and quality, <a href="http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?singlepost=3171400" rel="nofollow">Bitcoin? No</a>.<br />Whiskey existed long before electricity, Bitcoin? No electricity, no internet, no bitcoins.<br />And as you noted, bitcoins aren't a tangible good, and in fact have no use other than a way to conduct financial transactions online.<br />Precious metals make nice jewelry, whiskey is an antiseptic, liquid fuel, and cleaning agent among other uses.<br />Also, a recent variant of bitcoin known as dogecoin, <i>was</i> hacked and pilfered <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/26/dogecoin_christmas_heist/" rel="nofollow">this past Christmas</a>.<br />YIHnoreply@blogger.com