Sound money - what would it look like?

Via the Deliberate Agrarian, an essay on specie based money, why it was originally mandated by our country's constitution, and an explanation, in a round about way, of the popularity odd alternative currencies currently enjoy.

Plus, there are kind words about one of my favorite presidents, Andrew Jackson, who hated fiat currency, and had an epic and bare knuckled battle with that era's version of Greenspan/Bernanke over the issue.

                                                                 A true American