July 21, 2009
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Dan Carpenter in the Indy Star on Sarah Palin last week (inter alia, of course): And the Obama detractors who rejected his assertion that his campaign for office was not about him are content to let her be a kind of Cleopatra in a parka, reclining symbol of lost stature. … interesting mental image …
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Excerpts from a piece at Network World … not bad: On a recent excavation, Chris Locke unearthed an amazingly well-preserved fossil of Hilarofustis atarium, commonly referred to as the Atari joystick. This is the most recent “discovery” he has made, but among his Modern Fossils collection you can also spot long-dead boom boxes, aged iPods,…
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This was the big news last month, but it now appears that mass burial at Dorset contains bodies from the Saxon period, not Roman ….
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The Sun has the scoop on the next ‘Big Brother’ (UK presumably) episode: As part of a Greek themed shopping challenge two housemates must dress up like the father and son team for a performance. [sc. Stavros Flatley ~ ed.] Greek Irish fusion dancers Demetrios Demetriou, 40, and son Lagi, 13, will provide the pair…
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ante diem xii kalendas sextilias Lucaria (day 2) — the followup to a similar festival on the 19th commemorating the Sack of Rome by the Gauls; this day marked Rome’s subsquent victory ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 2) — games instituted by/adjusted by Octavian to honour his adoptive father shortly after the latter’s death (possibly moving…
rogue classicism 