[mlocher]

I’m sure they gave us something

Yeah, they gave us Diogenes, the original skeptic! Even he would question why there is so much emphasis on saving Greece.

[Verginius Rufus]

Diogenes was from Sinope, a Greek city on the coast of the Black Sea (in modern-day Turkey). His father was the official in charge of the mint at Sinope and supposedly got in trouble for issuing counterfeit coins. Diogenes may have been a misfit, but his father would have fit right in in modern-day Washington or Brussels.

[longtermmemmory]

I liked the vote to exile politicians who overstayed their time in power.

(if a Greek politician was deemed to have been too powerful in the senate, aka representative democracy, a vote was taken and the politician could be exiled for 10 years. In an era where lifespan was 40)

[brytlea]

:)