Goodbye To All That
The United States Senate just failed to pass climate-change legislation. Thus, unless our “leaders” perform an immediate about-face, the oil and coal interests can sleep soundly at night – as long as they keep their air-conditioners blasting away at full power, of course.
Here are two links from people who are much better at venting frustration than I am:
- “Who Cooked The Planet?” by Paul Krugman.
- “We’re Gonna Be Sorry” by Paul Friedman.
All I have to say is that the downfall of empires is obvious not only to historians armed with hindsight, but also to contemporaries possessing a minimum of common sense. (I bet there was not a single Roman above plebeian level who would deny that Caligula or Nero were horrible choices.)
And thus, today’s title: Goodbye To All That was Robert Graves’ first novel – the same author who went on to write I Claudius and Claudius The God.
So, dear Senators (what a coincidence that you ladies and gentlemen have the same title as those Roman fools) you just made it a lot easier for the US to go off the cliff. How do you feel, strapped on to your senatorial chariot (or is it a tricycle?).
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One can argue about it, but in my view the pinnacle of Rome's Empire came with Augustus.
Ave,
H.
I agree with the sentiments, but the Roman references are a bit out of place. Caligula and Nero were at the beginning of the empire, not at the end, which came several hundred years later.
Wow. Best news of the day. Good to have something good turn up for once.
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