Things are bad all over. But the Congo, of all places, had multiparty elections today.
Mr. Mabuisi, the 80-year-old voter who has lived through it all, said he voted for Mr. Bemba because he was worried about what would happen if Mr. Bemba lost.
“This is democracy,†he said, as he slipped his precious voting card [...]
Here’s a little light reading. I’m gonna leave that to you to figure out on your own.
Things were looking up today - the Red Sox moved to a record of 5-1, solidifying their perch atop the AL East, with Papi launching one and Papelbon and Beckett having great pitching turns in the home opener at [...]
Marcus Porcius Cato (for you antiquity buffs out there - Cato the Elder, or Cato the Censor) used to punctuate every speech, motion, and point of order on the floor of the Roman Senate with this phrase. It means, basically, “Carthage must be destroyed.” He would append it to every declaration. Imagine.
“We recommend that taxes [...]
How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man. - Johnny Cash
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You don’t have to hear it from me to know that things have gone south for the reasonable among us in the month or so since I left you. The last, despairing cries of my undergraduate career are echoing in the halls of the clean, ill-lighted place my days have become.
By that, I in no [...]