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HI...I hope that you had a wonderful Christmas ( or Hanukkah ) and that the New Year treats you well, old friend! :-)

It was fine, made it thru another year. How was yours?

No new Victorian/Edwardian books out for this Christmas, so no, I'm off reading on a different topic. I like alternative history books, so I just may look into what you're now reading. Thanks for the tip!

It's called "The Great War Series" where the South is fighting alongside the UK, France, Japan and Canada plus with Mormon rebels that were defeated by the US. The US and Germany are allies.

Oh pleeeeeeeeeeeeease...don't hand me that tired excuse for not saving; it's so old, its white beard is trailing on the ground! Even the poorest of the poor can save, if they REALLY want to and some of them used to. Almost nobody lives from hand to mouth today. There is absolutely NO valid reason to NOT save; yet fewer and fewer people think ahead and put anything by. Part of it,I lay at the feet of Benjamin Spock, whose baby rearing book is partly responsible for generations of instant gratification whingers.

Although I do partially recognize what you say about the Spock generation, that is true in that case so I'll agree with you on that one point but I've seen a lot of hand to mouth living and even experienced it. I do admit that although I am very conservative morally, socially and militarily, when it comes to economics, I'm more of a progressive, at least when compared to an average Freeper, more of a William's Jennings Bryant or Teddy Roosevelt type. Mainly it is my religious views, I'd make a good Catholic, I like the roles of captial and labor have that Pope Leo XIII wrote in his 1891 piece, "Rerum Novarum." B-) Don't worry, no name calling, I try not to do that and all it does is add to the rancor where you get more heat than light although I've done it sadly, but we are all sinners. I'll just say on some of this, we respectfully disagree.

Can you play Quidditch on line?

Got to take a look. I know there is a Quidditch game for the Playstation II.

Had a lovely Christmas...THANKS!

Interesting sounding series...thanks for the title, author, and brief overview.

Historically, almost all but those living on the dole or sent to poor houses ( yes, America had them too ) did save; even if it was a penny a week. Not everyone put their money in banks ( and with so many PANICS and bank closures, you could hardly blame the almost indigent, or the lowest classes, who had scrimped and done without, just to put a little by ), but hide money in some secret place or yes, even under a mattress. But saving became something fewer and fewer people did, in the 20th century. And once we hit the 1950s, the numbers of savers dwindled even faster and faster.

GOD helps those who help themselves. And yes, I do believe in helping the truly needy, but FCOL, those who have to have what they can't really afford and/or be the first to have whatever is new/"in", no matter what...those people, I have NO patience with, when they come up short.

Read the full article. These whingers are union members, who squeezed and squeezed and SQUEEZED the companies and now that because of all of the perks and exorbitant high pay, have to lay off people or go out of business. Where were these yahoos, when the union bosses were demanding things that were unreasonable? THEY WERE THERE, EGGING THE UNION BOSSES ON, DEMANDING MORE AND MORE AND MORE!