I was just reading Wikipedia "The Knights" by Aristophanes (recall "W" reference to Aristotle) his response to being brought up on charges of "embarrassing the city in front of foreigners" by one of the most powerful men in ancient Athens (for his lost play "Babylonians") and I'm reminded of a Greenwich, Connecticut high school commencement at which Matt Lauer, an alumnus spoke. It was about the time Mel Gibson, once a resident was admonished for having his goat pen for his kids too close to the small stream in the back-country Mr. Lauer said he spent years in sorting things out, so to speak.
The play has the Sausage-Seller replace a cruel tyrant (after an exchange of equally absurd and cruel insults) who brings Demos (Greek for "The citizen-body") a Truce (personified as a beautiful maiden). Their roles switched, Nicias and Demosthenes (two of the most prominent Athenian generals of the Peloponnesian War, the second, "Kojack" series credit, the actor, Telly Savalas, Jennifer Aniston's godfather) are no longer mistreated and the former tyrant has to take the Sausage-Seller's old job, selling "sausages of asses' and dog's meat..." which is interesting as recent archeology from Buffalo, NY I think has shown the Greeks apparently used a lot of pork!
As a New Yorker I have found Senator Clinton to have been doing a pretty good job considering the US Congress actually met in NYC again after 9/11 and the Republicans held their convention there. Former President William Jefferson Clinton, in my view holds a special place there, the second once president to address the New-York Historical Society, before that tragic day in 2001.
It's wonderful to have such great Democrats as these two Senators! (Posted to the Huffington Post)
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