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Hitler and his pals had a real hard-on for ancient Greece and Rome, and what better way to position the Third Reich as the successor to those civilizations than by making like Prometheus with the Olympic flame? Read about it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And you can combine them in seven different ways! So there’s no excuse for equating any of them with either of the others. Bonus: the guy who invented the Venn diagram has this commemorative stained-glass window at Cambridge.
Technically we’re supposed to call them rock pigeons now, but I learned the name before the ornithologists changed it and they’re rock doves to me.
Incidentally, my birthday is Wednesday. Late June is an excellent time to have been born and I recommend it to all.
I felt no desire to abuse Judge Persky or even tell him what to do. I just wanted to let him know, as one citizen to another, what I think of his ruling. I found this address on the website[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…