| Re: Colbert on Rome vs America |
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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: ShrikebackShrikeback Date: Mar 24, 2008 09:42
> Cullen Murphy was on the Colbert Report last week [ June 2007 ] to discuss
> his book, Are We Rome? The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America.
> Murphy is concerned that if every government function becomes privatized
> that our country will be entirely up for sale
You know, I've been hearing the crap about Modern
Romans since I was a wee lad, generally from fundies,
who pointed to the proliferation of fags, the drop in
the birth rate, and Allah knows what else to support
their thesis. Any use of the Roman Empire to compare
with modern America now has all the impact of a
neutrino.
This is what I saw there:
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