Today’s Latin Lesson Is How The Press Corps Covers the Capitol

Verbatim et Literatim et Punctatin

“With the Utmost Accuracy.”

(Literally: “Word for Word and Letter for Letter and Point for Point.”)

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A Word That Deserves a Revival: “Sinworm”

A vile, sinful creature

— Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language, 1755    Read more »

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Certainly One Way to Look at It…

“I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.”

–Keith Richards

(And palm trees, as one subscriber aptly notes.)    Read more »

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Today’s Latin Lesson is Two Desirable Qualities in Politics

Animus Et Prudentia

“Courage and Discretion”    Read more »

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Today’s Latin Lesson Is Rarely Heard in Political Discourse: “Vox Stellarum”

Vox Stellarum

“Music of the Spheres”    Read more »

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All Good Advice…

“Work hard at work worth doing.”

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“Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.”

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“Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.”    Read more »

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Today’s Latin Lesson Is Very Deep

 De Profundis

“Out of the Depths”

(“De Profundis” is the opening line of Psalm 130, which reads:)

Out of the depths I cry to you, lord;

Lord, hear my voice.  Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy.

If you, lord, kept a record of sins, lord, who could stand?    Read more »

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Today’s Latin Lesson Is a Lamentable Trait in Many Politicians

Furor Loquendi

“A passion for speaking”

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Today’s Latin Lesson Happens A Lot in the Capitol

Contradicto in Adjecto

“A Contradiction in Terms”    Read more »

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One of the World’s Truly Original Thinkers on the National Debt

“It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity.”

Frank Zappa    Read more »

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