Was JFK the peak and all since then has been the slow slide?
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[…] WWCD? (What would Caesar do?) Is America on the decline? Chris links to an article in Salon that reviews a book comparing America to the Roman Empire. Comparisons between percentage of GDP spent on armies and other economic and political trends are interesting, but the real question is, what kind of cell phone etiquette would Caligula have? Would Julius Caesar hang up his cell phone to order a burrito? (the woman in front of me in line today wouldn’t) […]
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