Ciceronianus; causidicus

The Cloud Cuckoo Land I refer to in this post is that of Aristophanes, as depicted in his play The Birds . It's not the one referred to ...

The bigoted, elitist, but nonetheless incisive Sage of Baltimore comes to mind more and more as the horror of the mid-term elections looms l...

I've commented briefly about our current, rather prevalent, indulgence in fantasy in past posts.  I comment on it more extensively in th...

Who better represents the quality of mercilessness than Ming the Merciless?  The quality is even a part of his name.  Seen here is Ming as p...

The insight, or at least the statement, that those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it (with some variation in words used), h...