“Nothing is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”

(George Bernard Shaw)

On the one hand Iceland has begun jailing bankers. On the other hand Mother Jones reports Debtors' Prison is Back and the Wall Street Journal reports people are again being imprisoned for debt.

 Compassion Is Our New Currency, writes Rebecca Solnit at Tom Dispatch

 “Stop for a moment and consider just how unforeseen and unforeseeable all of this was when, on December 17, 2010, Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian vegetable vendor in Sidi Bouzid, an out-of-the-way, impoverished city, immolated himself. He was protesting the dead-end life that the 1% economy run by Tunisia’s autocratic ruler Zine Ben Ali and his corrupt family allotted him, and the police brutality that went with it, two things that have remained front and center ever since. Above all, as his mother has since testified, he was for human dignity, for a world, that is, where the primary system of value is not money.”

On the serious side from the Courage of Robin Hood to Cowardice inviting catastrophe , to the lighter side of Occupy the Tundra, or "Occupy Jingle Bells" and Occupy the North Pole ( a Webby for Mr. Fish please!) watch out for flying hyperbole! The world is going rock, rock, rock. But who is really rocking the cradle and will the cradle come down baby and all?