Filthy Lucre

Following up to the post about Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, here is another post about Roman history.  This time from Elizabeth Rathgeber, who also wrote the post What to do about Sudan?.
I believe that Augustus and Niccoló Machiavelli would certainly agree much more so than disagree on how to be an effective ruler. The young Augustus […]

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After spending over a decade as a foreign corespondent for National Public Radio, Eric Weiner took on the task of finding out where people are happiest, and more importantly, why.  So Eric spent months studying the people in 10 different countries of varying degrees of happiness.  The end results is an incredibly interesting book not […]

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I watch two political shows daily.  The first of course is The Daily Show with John Stewart, where I find the coverage to be more fair and balanced than Fox News.  And I watch Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC.  Olbermann, for those who do not know, is a liberal nightmare for the Bush administration, […]

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