I agree with this. No one needs to own gold. Placing so much value on something that is just a metal, it's so arbitrary. I follow the same vow that Buddhist monks do and do not even touch gold (or silver).

The same goes for diamonds, which I knew about long before the movie Blood Diamond.

If anyone is interested, I write more about this in my BLOOD DIAMOND review here:

http://jasoncollin.org/2007/01/28/blood-diamond-2006-review/

Even people in Tokyo are in on the Obama fever, or at least this curry shop in Tokyo is. They put a poster in their window, either to support Obama or exploit him, you decided. Photo and Google map to the curry shop here:

http://jasoncollin.org/2008/07/15/barack-obama-wants-to-change-tokyo-curry-prices/

It is amazing what Google Street View picks up. Everyone should check their own street and make sure they were not caught doing anything embarrassing! Japan just got street view last week, and I'm nowhere to be found on my Tokyo street:

http://jasoncollin.org/2008/08/06/walk-down-my-street-tokyo-japan-google-maps-street-view/