5th July 2010, 09:18 AM
(This post was last modified: 5th July 2010, 09:22 AM by deadlylampshade.)
The spinning of "news" or just the plain facts is something we have had to live with for a very long time.
It's invidious tendancy has affected ancient sources for thousands of years...after all we only have Philo and Seneca's word for it that Caligula was a despotic tyrant...there are a lot of good things in his early reign but the rest may be true or "spin" set up by the Republican Restorers against his "monarchy".
It's invidious tendancy has affected ancient sources for thousands of years...after all we only have Philo and Seneca's word for it that Caligula was a despotic tyrant...there are a lot of good things in his early reign but the rest may be true or "spin" set up by the Republican Restorers against his "monarchy".
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, Merlot in one hand, Cigar in the other; body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming "WOO HOO, what a ride!