Weird news category not always so weird

When it comes to very basic subjects like the value and nature of money, smart people are not always so smart. Here's an article that shows people beating their own paths to value in means of exchange (some of them criminals, true). It certainly deserves publication in places like this odd-news site, but editors and viewers had better see beyond the sarcasm when they're through enjoying the humor and irony the piece imports:

http://www.oddee.com/item_98721.aspx
8 Weird Alternative Currencies

Now a tale from the often brilliant and populist Nutty News Today site -- pun unintended:

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2013/09/26/stockton-farmers-say-walnut-crops-are-prime-targets-for-creative-thieves/
Farmers Say Walnut Crops Are Prime Targets For Creative Thieves

Such a story is ready fodder for a sermon anecdote or newspaper filler.... but let's you and I watch to see who laughs last as the dollar continues to fall and other small, easily traded useful things suddenly multiply in value.

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