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19
I Get Paid For Doing This
March 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Remember Steve Martin’s old stand up routine from the late 1970s? That’s OK, I don’t remember it very well, either, but I do remember that he used to sing a song while playing his banjo and wearing a fake arrow-through-the-head about how much fun it is to be a stand up comic. The chorus of [...]
Mar
19
Plus ça change
March 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Here is the abstract for a very interesting article to be found in volume 17 (2006) of Acta Patristica et Byzantina:
According to a report of Gregory of Tours a controversy arose in the course of the 2nd Council of Mâcon (585 AD) on the question whether women can be called “man”. Some historians have interpreted [...]
