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...assertion that “The Simpsons” is “the most Christian show on television.”“The Archbishop of Canterbury smokes crack,” he said. “Has he seen our show? We had an episode where Homer was sodomized by a panda.”Although the writers have generally been able to air whatever they wished, the response from audiences has not always been positive. “The Simpsons” has been banned in France ever since an episode was based there...
...never to have heard of hashish prior to commencing his trade in it. This is nonsense. It was the stuff of daily social intercourse in North Africa at the time. And how could an erudite, well-traveled Frenchman who alludes throughout his book to canonical authors and works - from Homer to Boccaccio to fellow French writers like Dumas and Molière - not have been familiar with Baudelaire's 19th century writings about drugs, hashish in particular? One can only speculate that De Monfreid's feigned innocence is a raconteur's device, making his descent into the netherworld of drug...
...writing of history is one of the great legacies of the ancient Greeks, and its earliest masters, Herodotus and Thucydides, are as central to the foundations of Western civilization as Homer, Socrates and Sophocles. In more modern times, multivolume sagas of crumbling empires, explosive revolutions and nations nudging toward greatness were huge best sellers, making historians like Edward Gibbon, Thomas Macaulay and Thomas Carlyle as well known as Stephen King and John Grisham are today...
...naive to believe that Jerusalem could become an independent sovereign city-state like the Vatican? Let the international community via the U.N. take the initial responsibility to make it safe and available to all people and religions, ending this chronic, divisive tug-of-war. Ken Lomasney, HOMER GLEN...
...mother, father, and one of his sisters still live on the same street in mid-Cambridge, while Sullivan himself lives on Homer Avenue in West Cambridge. (His ex-wife and teenage son and daughter live in nearby Belmont; he takes pride in noting that his 6’1’’ daughter is a varsity athlete at Belmont High School...