I’m forsaking the Moron Circus for reading the Catiline Orations* with a mug of hot buttered rum while I wait for the baseball game to break out in between the commercials.

Now Cicero? There was a conservative who knew how to talk. :P

“But if his companions follow him,—if the infamous herd of desperate men depart from the city, O happy shall we be, fortunate will be the republic, illustrious will be the renown of my consulship. For theirs is no ordinary insolence,—no common and endurable audacity. They think of nothing but slaughter, conflagration, and rapine. They have dissipated their patrimonies, they have squandered their fortunes. Money has long failed them, and now credit begins to fail; but the same desires remain which they had in their time of abundance. “

Undead Cicero / Sanders 2016!

* purely coincidental to the debate, I’ve been hooked on a Roman history podcast lately and this is light side reading.