Ciceronianus; causidicus

Is there such a thing as "Honor", or "Honour" as our British cousins would have it, in these disturbing times?  There ar...

  As the leaders of our Great Republic come more and more to resemble caricatures of greedy, stupid, ignorant, craven, self-righteous, venal...

  If you give it some thought, Christmas is a holiday which invites skepticism regarding Christianity.  It may in that sense almost be calle...

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...