[stefanbatory]

Obey the rules! NOW!

[popdonnelly]

Dowd. Waste of time.

[woofie]

This woman has confirmed her place in the parade of idiots.

Pundits needc to retire BEFORE it becomes obvious

[monkeycard]

The decline and fall of the American Empire...

I stopped reading at this point.

[PGR88]

We have the Government passing out cheap money (mortgages) to the masses to gain their quiesence, we have one political faction who controls the corrupt process to acheive their political ends, while leaders of that faction are having openly homosexual affairs with members of the Government entity handing out these goodies.

It certainly sounds like Rome to me.

[Elian Gonzales]

Oh God, there’s nothing more irritating than a media elitist pretending to inform the hoi polloi with references to ancient Rome.

Especially from this wretch, Maureen “Hate Everybody” O’Dowd.

Wanna look at history? Try more the Athens at its height: an empire yet exporting democracy everywhere, with another power (Sparta) just waiting to strike.

I wonder if columnists (how easy a job is that?) think they’re IQ points go up when they use the phrase “are we Rome?” in their scribblings.

[sauropod]

To Ioannes McCainus and Sara Palina:

Illigitimi non carborundum est.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

If we are talking Romans, Down reminds me of Agrippinila (Agrippina the Younger): Granddaughter of Marcus Agrippa (Augustus’s general and colleague), Daughter of Germanicus the hero, sister and lover of the Emperor Caligula, wife of the Emperor Claudius, and mother of the Emperor Nero, her murderer.

[paddles]

No mention of Doddus Gassbagius and Barney Buttslammicus?

[combat_boots]

You are, Slimes. Me? Spartan all the way. Well-trained. Unflinching. Have read my enemy well, and will look him in the eye when fightin’ him.

Gladly.

[Ole Okie]

Didn’t notice that this was by old Dowdy until I started reading it.

I’ll quit gagging in a little while.

[mike182d]

I'm tired of the over-simplified explanation of Rome's fall being used as comparison to present day America.

Until America divides itself in two and creates a second capital, for starters, then I'll start to worry about it's fate.

There were many, MANY things that caused Rome's fall.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Are We Rome? Tu Betchus!

No Maureen, we are not any more Rome then Catherine Zeta Jones is a bitter washed up columnist drunkenly filing stories full of inane stupidities.

[Zeppo]

Whenever circumstance brings some welcome thing your way, stop in suspicion and alarm ...They are snares. ... we think these things are ours when in fact it is we who are caught. That track leads to precipices; life on that giddy level ends in a fall.”

So, let me guess - even though that quote is easily seen as a prescient warning against submitting to the excesses of Obamania, Dowd's narrow political blinders prevent that interpretation from getting anywhere close to her keyboard...

[RedMonqey]

In high school, I translated swatches of Julius Caesar?s ?The Battle for Gaul? from Latin to English while nibbling cheese crackers. To boost the felicitous new trend toward Latin, I enlisted Gary D. Farney, an associate professor of history at Rutgers University, to translate (loosely and creatively) from English to Latin

Not just a pseudo intelligentsia but a borrowed pseudo intelligentsia. What a poseur!!

[count-your-change]

As Stanley, the great wit and fairly expensive plumber said, “Those who do not learn from history are bound to become newspaper writers”.

Not only was Stanley profound, he could set a stool pretty well too.

[elcid1970]

“Oh, the Roman was a rogue,

“He erat was, you bettum!

“He ran his automobilis,

“And smoked his cigarettum.

“He wore a diamond studibus,

“An elegant cravattum,

“A maxima cum laude shirt,

“And such a stylish hattum!”

;^)

[dighton]

As some droppable name lamented, “O tempura! O morays! O, for f***’s sake!”