A Message for Christians from a Realist

When God opens a window, you can bet there's a door somewhere that just slammed shut.

I Can No Longer Short-Change the Blind

DALLAS, Texas -- They had an official unveiling of the new American Silver Dollar; the new coin contains Braille. I won't express an opinion, as I already lack the time to address my issue with the blind using currency (it's ridiculous.) What is important is that I can no longer give metal disks to blind people and say, "you're welcome for the dollar."

Maybe they are just pissed off that we (if you can read this, you are "we") are still listening to books on tape, but the group responsible for this is pretending that the coin celebrates the 200th birthday of Louis Braille, who was sick of having things read to him.

Where is my sense of security in all of this? If I ever needed four quarters I could count on a local blind person to give them to me in exchange for a car wash token that happened to weigh an ounce-the same weight as a silver dollar-but now that security is gone. I don't want to be forced to start trading fake paper money; that's where my ethics draw the line. Besides, at this point a fake five-dollar bill would be useless, all it would fetch is five car wash tokens from one of these "street banks."

This problem is going to get worse before it gets better. I'm in the dark on all of this, and I never took the time to learn Braille.

It's Someone's Birthday

Graham Chittenden dot Com would like to wish a happy July 1st birthday to Jamie Farr, Missy Elliott, Canada, and Liv Tyler.

Jamie Farr as Maxwell Klinger