The counry that used to exist
4th August 2007
UR. Tacitus makes Mencius waxes philosophic.
Sine ira et studio. I doubt these words were idly chosen, and we kids these days could do a lot worse than to imitate them. No one gives a rat’s ass about Tiberius now. But I see no shortage of either ira or studio.
Read it to find out what all this has to do with Rhodesia.
Today’s Europeans simply cannot understand why Republicans, at least populist Republicans, are allowed to exist within the American political system. They look at it rather the way you’d look at someone who kept a pet leopard in his closet.
And what it has to do with us.