Apparently, an English woman has been fined approximately 65,000 pounds for the crime of selling vegetables by the pound. The irony of charging "pounds sterling" (actually "pounds worthless fiat" today) for this crime apparently escaped the barristers and judges.
I'm looking forward to a new British currency called the "kilogram sterling", worth approximately (at current prices for silver) about 130 quid.
Odds & Ends: February 27, 2026
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Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes. The founders of Huckberry gifted me this book
over a decade ago, and it sat on my shelf unread until a few weeks back
when ...
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