Monday, March 31, 2008

And Speaking of Pennies ...

Not since the first time I heard the line, "It turns out that the Iliad and the Odyssey were not, in fact, written by Homer, but by another ancient Greek of the same name," have I come across something as wonderfully surreal as this.

Responding to the never-ending calls to abolish the penny, James Poulos suggests:

The clear solution ... is not to eliminate the penny but to kill off the nickel and make pennies worth five cents.

He actually makes a good case.

2 comments:

Sornie said...

I am surprised that we still have physical money in our increasingly virtual world.

bjkeefe said...

Be glad we do. You want the gummint to be able to track every one of your purchases?

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