pencil

I'm a big fan of pencil drawing. I do charcoal and graphite although I prefer the latter (thus I have a better set of graphite pencils). My current fling is old sailing vessels, although I've drawn other subjects occasionally. I do most of my finished drawing on paper that's a little too big...

Well, there's no Economics subforum (yet), but in the interests of education and enlightenment I'd like to present an essay written in the 1950s by Leonard E. Read, founder of the Foundation for Economic Education. It's a wonderful description of how the free market improves life for everyone...

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/2171872 ...full story This is all over the radio in Houston today. I think it's absolutely absurd. This poor girl is yet another victim of the stupidity known as the "zero tolerance" policy.