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Long ago in China, Knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the knot-maker. Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore. If I had lived in China, I would have been order outlaw knot-maker...
When asked to defend why he was raising revenue by levying a new tax on the use of lavatories in ancient Rome, Emperor Vespasian smugly replied, "Money has no smell." In spite of the unpopularity of this measure, no one could possibly see an ethical conflict in the Emperor's edict. But the reported private favors of "The Corporate Dole" are of a different nature. Unless the Republicans can show in each of the reported cases that the public at large benefited from the privileges granted to private enterprise, these transactions look blatantly unethical, and the monies involved have...
...citizens of Constantinople had it easy when it came to foreign policy. Each day, many of them passed by a column near the Hagia Sophia on which rested an equestrian statue of Constantine, the first Roman emperor to reign in their city. The Emperor's arm extended east, complementing the famous inscription on the column: "From this direction will come the one who will undo...
...numbers of anti-abortion protesters. Police are also getting ready for rowdy Democratic protesters. In an oddly bureaucratic approach to protest gatherings, local authorities are requiring such protest groups as Students Against Dole Increasing School Tuition, the Queer Policy Institute, The American Lung Association and a group simply called Emperor, to sign up for 55 minute turns at the microphone in the official "Protest Site" across from the convention center. Just in case, they are also installing metal detectors. Lesser squabbles are swirling around protests by individuals. When a billboard company refused to rent space to Brian Monaghan, a local...
...numbers of anti-abortion protesters. Police are also getting ready for rowdy Democratic protesters. In an oddly bureaucratic approach to protest gatherings, local authorities are requiring such protest groups as Students Against Dole Increasing School Tuition, the Queer Policy Institute, The American Lung Association and a group simply called Emperor, to sign up for 55 minute turns at the microphone in the official "Protest Site" across from the convention center. Just in case, they are also installing metal detectors. Lesser squabbles are swirling around protests by individuals. When a billboard company refused to rent space to Brian Monaghan, a local...