Before you buy a bitcoin you should recognize that its logo is almost identical to that of the Boston Bruins. Was this intentional? Hard to say. I’d ask, but I can’t find them. 

As I understand it, the bitcoin is about “placelessness,” like the beginning of the computer days when people would not sign journals or letters with a place stated because they were from the computer astral zone — the world, the universe, like Andromeda, someplace in the sky, hovering. 

The Boston Bruins, however, understand what the circle divided into eight parts, which some bitcoins have as background for the B, means. They are smart. Their totem animal is the bear. An eight-sided divided circle — “Lost” devotees and Tibetan monks know this — is called a bagua. It is a diagram of the universe and comprehensive map of human consciousness. It is why some of the Bruins' very best hockey players, like Bobby Orr, can — like those kung fu monks — actually fly.

In my last column, I opposed the potential nomination of Lawrence Summers to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.

America does not need a Fed Chairman who embodies the revolving door between Washington and Wall Street. And now the jury has spoken on the matter of Fabrice Tourre, the very young multimillionaire from Goldman Sachs who called himself "Fabulous Fab" and has now been convicted of fraud.

Anybody notice the case of this junior Goldman Sachs employee involved the highest-ranking official charged by the SEC after the financial scandals, as the statute of limitations soon expires for his superiors?

In recent remarks that were stunning and profound, Pope Francis harshly criticized what he called "the cult of money" and condemned what he called the "dictatorship" of economies that are socially unjust and morally unfair.

These remarks, reported in The Daily Telegraph and highlighted on the Drudge Report (but not in major American media) suggest a papacy with the potential to transform the global economic and financial debate.

Most recent popes, including Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict, raised the same issues that Francis dramatized this week. What makes the Holy Father different today is that he views economic and social injustice as a defining, and possibly THE defining, theme of is papacy.

As stories spread about airline passengers waiting extra hours because of furloughs imposed by the sequester, and as monthly job reports begin to show the jobs-destroying impact of the sequester increasing, it is time to cancel the sequester.