The New Yorker’s take on Bloomberg’s plutocratic, all-encompassing nannyism is worth a read. Are the parallels to Marcus Licinius Crassus a harbinger of the coming pink police state?
6 thoughts on “The answer, of course, is to send Bloomberg off to fight the Parthians”
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Was Crassus the guy who forced people to work at swordpoint so that they would produce stuff that could then be taxed?
Or was that a different Emperor?Report
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Licinius_CrassusReport
“Upon his arrival in the Parthian camp he was seized and killed. A story later emerged that after Crassus’ death the Parthians poured molten gold into his mouth as a symbol of his thirst for riches.”
Old school.Report
Shorter Hertzberg- Bloomberg has done a mostly good job, is popular and has given a slice of has massive fortune to good causes. This is bad.Report
Really? That’s what you take from the article? Strange.Report
yes mostly with just a tad of snark thrown in for taste.Report