Last year The Lamb began writing this blog.  The experience has been illuminating and more than just a little fun — hopefully, for you as well.  We’ve discussed topics from taxes to trading and from currencies to commodities.  We even had guest posting.

At this time, however, The Lamb will be taking a new job which will prohibit him from dedicating the requisite effort to keep this blog going.  Regrettfully, today’s post will be the last.

The Lamb would like to gratefully acknowledge his loyal readers for their comments and confidence.  He would also like to thank his friends and family for their encouragement and support. 

But The Lamb is most grateful for his beautiful and brilliant wife.  She was the inspiration for this blog as well as its designer, programmer, and chief editor.  Without her efforts, none of the posts over the past several months would ever have made it to your computer screen.

I am, as always, awed by her.

When the United States was in its infancy (actually all the way through puberty), everyone had the right to vote.  Everyone, that is, who was a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant adult male who legally owned property.

Today, November 4, 2008, you need only be a (registered) adult citizen in order to have a say, albeit indirectly, in how your country functions.  You have the right, The Lamb would say the obligation, to have your opinion count in determining the laws, rules, and regulations that will govern you.

You will undoubtedly disagree with at least some of the results in today’s myriad elections.  Good.  Continue to work to change things which you believe are unfair, which you know are wrong.  Fight (nonviolently) for your voice to be heard. 

Today, take the first step in making this country as close to your ideal as possible.  You will never completely succeed, but making your opinion known is just as important.

“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”  — John Quincy Adams

“Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities.” — Ayn Rand