Some more reading ideas to share… And I apologize if they are a little economic and political heavy for the next few weeks. Like most people, those topics are on my mind as well…

Grain piles up in ports from Financial Post

Icelandic Shoppers Splurge as Currency Woes Reduce Imports from Bloomberg.com

How to unravel a sweater to recylce the yarn from Neauveau Fiber Arts – Very clever!

Depression Holidays: Thinking About Presents, Ecology and Hard Times from Casubon’s Book

Obama and Acorn from The Wall Street Journal – Here’s a quote:

The Michigan Secretary of State told the press in September that Acorn had submitted “a sizeable number of duplicate and fraudulent applications.” Earlier this month, Nevada’s Democratic Secretary of State Ross Miller requested a raid on Acorn’s offices, following complaints of false names and fictional addresses (including the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys). Nevada’s Clark County Registrar of Voters Larry Lomax said he saw rampant fraud in 2,000 to 3,000 applications Acorn submitted weekly.

Officials in Ohio are investigating voter fraud connected with Acorn, and Florida’s Seminole County is withholding Acorn registrations that appear fraudulent. New Mexico, North Carolina and Missouri are looking into hundreds of dubious Acorn registrations. Wisconsin is investigating Acorn employees for, according to an election official, “making people up or registering people that were still in prison.”

Then there’s Lake County, Indiana, which has already found more than 2,100 bogus applications among the 5,000 Acorn dumped right before the deadline. “All the signatures looked exactly the same,” said Ruthann Hoagland, of the county election board. Bridgeport, Connecticut estimates about 20% of Acorn’s registrations were faulty. As of July, the city of Houston had rejected or put on hold about 40% of the 27,000 registration cards submitted by Acorn.

And to end on a funny note…

Friends don’t let friends attend miracle juice seminars from A Cottage Industry

Enjoy!