Photography

Some remarkable photographs coming in, as Occupy Wall Street reports "Surround the Congress" demonstrations spreading from Spain and Greece to Lisbon, Rome, and "beyond."  (Above photo credit/Courtesy of Occupy Wall Street/same link.)

Here, too, is a 15 photo stream from Business Insider.

Compassion

Paul Krugman writes about old-fashioned compassion.  Having canceled my cable television subscription years ago, I missed the following:

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked Representative Ron Paul what we should do if a 30-year-old man who chose not to purchase health insurance suddenly found himself in need of six months of intensive care. Mr. Paul replied, “That’s what freedom is all about — taking your own risks.” Mr. Blitzer pressed him again, asking whether “society should just let him die.”  

And the crowd erupted with cheers and shouts of “Yeah!”

Courtesy of Pottery Trained In Roma 

Photograph by Kristina Neumann

"And there was a massive cross to the side in remembrance of those Christians who died there, but I found out that the only documented Christian persecuted in the Colosseum was Ignatius of Antioch. The mass slaughters we read about happen elsewhere."

 Hmm.