11/27/2004 07:01:56 PM|||Nathan Moore|||

My apologies to followers of our blog. We just got back from West Virginia for Thanksgiving, with it raining all the way. The trip was nice, and thankfully, I do like my wife's family (hopefully she'll read this post - we're notoriously bad at not reading each other's entries on here).

Anyhow, private sector demands have made blogging a bit more difficult as of late. With some technological improvements, I expect that to change. My Treo 600 ought to be arriving Monday, and then I'll have no excuse. I expect to move my office over the next weekend, but that ought to go rather smoothly. I'm in the midst of making my practice as nearly paperless as possible, and that's turning out to be a fantastic decision, both for purposes of dead tree weight and simple organization.

For now, there are some good reads out there. This article by Myrna Blyth on the niche industry of female victimhood is worth checking out over at NRO. Glenn Reynolds has a nice roundup of economic news links. I really wish everyone would get a grip on what it means to have a "weak" dollar. The terminology is horribly misleading. People seem to shudder when they hear that the dollar is weak. The only difference to us is that imports are a little more expensive. Low priced imports won't become expensive. If you're paying $5.00 for a pack of Chinese socks, you might end up paying $5.30 for them. If you're importing expensive French wine, that might be another story. The point is, we have a long ways to go before the weakening dollar becomes a problem in any sense of the word. A weakening currency can in some ways be a good thing. It makes our goods and services cheaper to other countries, encouraging domestic growth and making us more competitive in the world market. Since we're not dependent on imports of raw goods for a large percentage of our economy, we shouldn't be too worried about a weaker dollar vis a vis the Euro or the Yen (or the Yuan, as some are now pointing out could be a really good thing).

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