[Antoninus]

I noticed that Roman history is also being rewritten. I enjoy ancient history and try to catch some of the programs about ancient Greece and Rome. Rome's reputation is being rehabilitated. It is no longer the decadent, brutal civilization of Seneca, Cassius Dio and Pliny. It has become a glorius civilization in which the people prospered in freedom. Even Nero has become a poor misunderstood genius.

Ha! In college, freeper Claud and myself had a running joke that someday academia would try to rehabilitate poor Caligula. Imagine, he could be looked at as disabled--mental illness is a disability, isn't it? And now that we are inching towards tolerance of all kinds of sexual perversion, including incest, who are we to judge that he married his sister? Finally, he was a champion of animal rights, having named Incitatus the horse to the Roman Senate. Hardly seems like the murderous, rapacious tyrannt that history has handed us, does he?

[sitetest]

Dear Antoninus,

The problem with satirizing the left is that they have no sense of humor. What's written that makes us laugh ironically, they see as a step-by-step plan for the next phase of their efforts.

The moral is, don't satirize the left. It only gives them ideas.


sitetest

[Dataman]

Ha! In college, freeper Claud and myself had a running joke that someday academia would try to rehabilitate poor Caligula.

If the murderous man who dressed himself in animal skins and bit naked men in cages can be rehabilitated, Caligula is not far behind.