This is designed to be a companion piece to a new Pique the Geek installment of the same title that will be published Sunday. The idea for this dual treatment of gold was inspired by our good friend and supporter from the other two sites to which I contribute, ek hornbeck.
This half of the couple has to do with gold in a nontechnical sense. The one on Sunday gets, obviously, much more Geeky. However, technical uses aside, gold has been part of the popular culture since prehistory. Only recently have truly technical uses for gold been found, and those will be covered elsewhere.
Tonight we shall look at some of the history of gold in popular culture, and finish with a discussion of the so-called gold standard and the numerous sales pitches that dominate the conservative airwaves. We shall try not to get too Geeky.
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