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Entries from September 2008

McCaligula? (or Wikipedia-a-go-go)

September 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Pop Culture

Like Tacitus (sine ira et studio), I normally strive to keep this blog a partisanship-free zone, but Richard Cohen, in an op-ed about the selection of Sarah Palin, invokes a Classical exemplum worthy of note:
It’s a pity Gingrich was not around when the Roman Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, better known by his nickname [...]

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