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Looting, killing and raping -- by twisting their words they call it "empire"; and wherever they have created a wilderness they call it "peace" -- Tacitus

Tuesday, July 16

This just in from Olympus...

Tapped notes:
Tapped is glad that the Post finally decided to profile Paul Sarbanes. But we found this sentence from the piece more than a little bit odd:
In an interview Friday in his Senate office, decorated with busts of fellow Greeks Zeus and Socrates, Sarbanes lampooned his media-shy image while taking credit for hearings last winter that shaped the consensus for today's vote even though they drew little attention at the time.

Should we take this as meaning that the Post thinks Zeus actually existed or exists? That certainly casts the paper's coverage of the Pledge of Allegiance issue in a different light....

Actually, whether Zeus exists or existed, he was not Greek. He was a God -- an entirely different species. After all, products of mating between Gods and Humans are demi-gods, who are neither completely divine nor completely mortal. Zeus is no more Greek than Secretariat was American. If I was the ruler of Olympus, I would be mightily pissed off. Watch out, Tapped.

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