For about a century people have said that the climactic pages of Bulwer-Lytton’s Last Days of Pompei are as tense and exciting as the rest is pompous and overwrought, to which I will agree. … Continue reading
Daily Archives: December 23, 2012
(Picture from here.) I was going to put up a post on the biological necessity of government and how it was a compromise between the twin human drives of competition and cooperation. How boring is that? Instead, something better came … Continue reading