27 August 2011
Good at everything that doesn't count?
Gibbon writes (Chap X) "It is difficult to paint the light, the various, the inconstant character of Gallienus, which he displayed without constraint as soon as he became sole possessor of the empire. In every art that he attempted his lively genius enabled him to succeed; and, as his genius was destitute of judgement, he attempted every art, except the important ones of war and government."
28 July 2011
Does your mother love you?
Unloved Girl in Spokane WA writes (Dear Abby 28 July 2011)
"Dust and clothing have started to build up in my bedroom. I have told my mom, and she doesn't do anything about it, and I'm tired of telling her! The mess makes it hard live in.
"I think she does not love me since she will not do anything about the mess. What should I do?"
"Dust and clothing have started to build up in my bedroom. I have told my mom, and she doesn't do anything about it, and I'm tired of telling her! The mess makes it hard live in.
"I think she does not love me since she will not do anything about the mess. What should I do?"
When is obstinacy your best bet?
Torquato Tasso writes (Jerusalem Freed V.3) "so fickle and changing is this world, we find that to be constant we must change our mind."
25 July 2011
Are you as catty as an ancient historian?
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> Polybius writes (XII 15) "Agathocles in his early youth was a common prostitute, one willing to associate with the most licentious characters, a jackdaw, a buzzard, a man who would face in any direction on request. Besides all this, Timaeus says that when Agathocles died, his wife, as she was lamenting him, cried out: 'Ah, what have I not done to you! What have you not done to me!'. . . . And yet Timaeus' description of Agathocles makes it clear that the man must have possessed some remarkable natural advantages."
> Polybius writes (XII 15) "Agathocles in his early youth was a common prostitute, one willing to associate with the most licentious characters, a jackdaw, a buzzard, a man who would face in any direction on request. Besides all this, Timaeus says that when Agathocles died, his wife, as she was lamenting him, cried out: 'Ah, what have I not done to you! What have you not done to me!'. . . . And yet Timaeus' description of Agathocles makes it clear that the man must have possessed some remarkable natural advantages."
28 April 2011
20 February 2011
How do you make money here?
04 December 2010
Would you rather fly into battle or a goat?
Most people name their aiports after artists, generals, hamlets, mayors, and other nice stuff, like goats.
Chicagoans prefer to name their airports after killing fields. Two of the busiest airports in the world and both martial themes.
O'Hare is named after Butch O'Hare, who shots down more zeroes than anyone else. Would you name your airport after a mass murderer?
Midway is named after the Battle of Midway, the turning point in the Pacific war during World War II.
Incidentally, one of the Japanese admirals thought their battle plan doomed for failure and wrote in his diary: "He who pursues two hares catches neither."
Chicagoans prefer to name their airports after killing fields. Two of the busiest airports in the world and both martial themes.
O'Hare is named after Butch O'Hare, who shots down more zeroes than anyone else. Would you name your airport after a mass murderer?
Midway is named after the Battle of Midway, the turning point in the Pacific war during World War II.
Incidentally, one of the Japanese admirals thought their battle plan doomed for failure and wrote in his diary: "He who pursues two hares catches neither."
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