More Dispatches from Gilead
Agitprop presents vol. V through VIII in The Timecapsule Project.
Pax Americana: The Birth of a New American Century
A Catastrophic Success?
2004: Vote (for Bush) or Die
Fallujah: Get Yer War On!
from Suetonius' The Deified Julius:
Now when Caesar had over taken his cohorts as the river Rubicon, which was the utmost boundary of his province, he rested for a while; then, considering how great an enterprise he was undertaking, turned to those who stood next to him and said,
"As yet, friends, we are able to turn back; but once we pass over this little bridge, there will be no business but by the force of arms and dint of sword."
As he stood still and full of doubt, he happened to see something very strange. All of a sudden there appeared to him a certain man of extraordinary stature and shape, sitting close by and piping on a reed. Now when, besides the shepherds and herdsmen, many soldiers rushed over to hear him, among them the trumpeters, he snatched from one a trumpet, leapt forth to the river, and, beginning with a mighty blast to sound the battle, forged ahead to the other bank. Caesar then spoke:
"Let us march on, and go wherever the tokens of the gods and the provocations of our enemies call us. The die is cast."
