A famous quote attributed to Petronius Arbiter, a Roman writer and advisor to Emperor Nero, about being reorganized is: "We trained hard—but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form u… (View Post)

And interesting 2009 "how I got here" essay by Thiel (quite short): "The Education of a Libertarian" But I must confess that over the last two decades, I have changed radically on… (View Post)

That reminds me of Roman Catholic Cardinals and conversational Latin, which I think is still an official language at the Vatican. And *that* reminded me of Pope Benedict and his languages. Here he sp… (View Post)

He made a speech at the Department of Justice yesterday in front of an audience of prosecutors where he listed a whole series of people by name who he wants to target - people like Mark Elias (Democr… (View Post)

Question: What place did Protestant religion have in changing that? eg William Tyndale (Bible translator, around 1520): I will cause a boy who drives a plow to know more of the scriptures than the po… (View Post)