2008mar29. Some corrections to the Money as Debt entry. First, mail from Doc:
that rothschild line might be one of those quotations that has no source. it was popularized by early-to-mid-20th-century anti-semites, and i know i’ve never seen a source for it. one thing that makes it suspicious to me is that it’s a little too on the nose. another thing is that it’s cast in the exact same form as other spurious quotations attributed to plato, stalin, & others re: music, movies, &c.
Yeah, I think I was probably looking up the Wilson quotes roughly the same time you noticed that; the entry for Freedom to Fascism on Wikipedia indicates at least one of them has been puffed up with air. There’s a discussion of the film on Metafilter. The basic explanation is sound, but unfortunately they didn’t put much time into checking the quotes. Finally, Moon Pies are not actually classified as “food” and should not be referred to as such. They are edible chemical substances coated and sealed with a colored outer shell -- Pantone® PMS 11005 (“Banana”), PMS 11314 (“Chocolate”), and PMS 11023 (“Vanilla”). Enjoy.
