Rodney Mancuso

Dan Crenshaw recently posted a news story showing a Greek destroyer deploying to Cyprus. "Greeks fighting the Persians just made everyone's day."

My cousin's wife's brothers (bear with me) were foreign workers at a palace in a Gulf emirate. The entire staff was imprisoned for months when some jewelry went missing. No charges, no lawyers, just prison until they figure out who's responsible to their satisfaction.

In a world where lots of horrible things happen, her one character with unlimited power ended up a sort of Cincinnatus. Took me a while to figure out why I found that part so hard to get past.

Degrading international norms against aggression is bad, but there is more than one thing going on; more than one kind of price to be paid.

6.000 Géigestänn aus der Merowenger-Zäit um Site zu Rolleng fonnt: "Um europäesche Plang gekuckt, ass eis eng Sensatioun gelongen" D'Ausgruewungen um Site, déi mëttlerweil scho sechs Joer amgaange sinn, si just ee Brochdeel vun der Aarbecht.

A large early medieval settlement from the #Merovingian period was discovered in Rolleng (Luxembourg) in 2019. The excavation, which is still ongoing, has yielded around 6000 objects so far. Article in Luxembourgish and German w. link to the French press release: www.rtl.lu/kultur/news/...

They may not have understood Greece and Rome well, but I'd gladly take someone who models their life on an 18th century interpretation of Cincinnatus over... whatever it is the right thinks Greece and Rome represent today.

They sacrificed their *lives* to have clean, unblocked urethras. Ever think about that? No? Huh?!

That's practically slanderous! One of the founding fathers *died* after sticking a piece of whalebone up his dick to clean it!

This is something I only really understood when forced to by learning (and reading in) a language with grammar significantly different and more flexible than English.

Wow, they found medieval painted planks under a house in Toledo!
Look, MORE COLOUR ;)

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The for-profit prison did not control when she was detained or released. The ICE agent who detained her may have, but that possibility is based solely on prison gossip. So, maybe? We certainly can't take ICE at their word when they claim otherwise. But we also shouldn't assume it is so.

I'm not sure what your point is. Yes, they are talking about evidence-based medicine. They do not say it is bad or should be set aside in favor of splashing everyone with essential oils. They point out unintended & unexpected consequences of its wild success.

This is an uncharitable reading of the passage. They do not reject evidence-based medicine; they inquire as to its limits and, as an example, critique its hegemonic influence.

The sloganeering version of this sort of thing can indeed be absurd. Done carefully and thoughtfully it is not.

Yep. Was a mistake to try to have that sort of discussion here.

I apologize for the obviously absurd overstatement; this is the internet where people take such things completely seriously and I should have known better.

My point: adding more democracy to the mix doesn't necessarily improve government institutions. How do you see it improving the court?

*sigh*

It is a silly reductio, but that is the point. I'm curious what you mean by your "anti-democratic" critique and how you think the Court would be improved by making it more democratic.

Are you critiquing the Court for being anti-democratic or for failing to properly discipline itself via the available systems?

Democracy means election by the people. Calling something anti-democratic means that it is not electorally responsive to the people. I think there are very good reasons for at least *some* institutions of government to not be elected or immediately responsive to elections.

The term "democracy" seems to have become mystical sort of synecdoche for "the American constitutional order," which is how you are choosing to use it. But in that interpretation it makes no sense to call the Court anti-democratic because the Court is part of that order.

I don't think anyone is recommending insouciance. The reflexive partisan assumption that the Court functions as a rubber stamp for Trump is, however, untenable.

If that is the guiding principle, does it follow that every institution of American governance should be reformed until all 350 million of us vote on every decision? How much democracy is enough? Are there practical, sincere justifications for making government less democratic?

At least they're not gone yet, and the profs I'm working with are amazing - going out of their way to help, offering audits, etc.

This is clearly true and badly needed. I started my PhD classwork with a Global course and, at the same time, learned my university is in the process of cutting languages.

From the perspective of a teenager growing up in the 1970s and 1980s I don't think Irish/Polish/Italian ancestry & identity were relevant in nearly the way it was in the first half of the century.

So you want to mansplain virtue to Lysistrata? Your funeral.

Much less charmingly, I remember what "dum" means because of Caligula's "oderint dum metuant."

Precisely. The subject of one of my favorite pieces by Lynn Hunt, which I love teaching

Photo of Silvius, the little Latin mouse, sitting on a red-painted wooden sledge in the snow. He's wearing his paenula (hooded cloak) with a red leather belt to keep it closed against the cold. Silvius has been waiting weeks for the rain to stop, and he made the most of the short snowfall!

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 489
hodie breviter ningit, itaque Silvius foris festinat et traheam novam experitur. (Today it's snowing for a little while, so Silvius hurries outside and tries out his new sledge). carpe nivem! (Seize the snow!)

Roman mosaic in Britain reveals a 2,000 year old Trojan War secret A remarkable Roman mosaic found in Rutland turns out to tell a forgotten version of the Trojan War. Rather than Homer’s famous epic, it reflects a lost Greek tragedy by Aeschylus, featuring vivid scen...

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Previously Unknown Medieval Chronicle Discovered - Medievalists.net A newly discovered chronicle from the early eighth century is giving medieval historians a rare new window onto the political shocks and religious debates that reshaped the eastern Mediterranean in th...

!!! a new manuscript was recently discovered written in the Syrian Monothelite community in the early 700s that describes the end of the Roman / Sassanian war *and the rise of Islam in the Levant!*

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