Sagacious Man

Thoughts and tips from Ann Arbor's foremost pseudo-intellectual.
@literati is doing it right. No Leo in sight.

@literati is doing it right. No Leo in sight.

-How could there be a horse name as short as Orb in 2013- just won the Kentucky Derby!

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If you buy a copy of The Great Gatsby with Leo on the cover I hate you.

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Sets.

Sets.

The story of the Athenian expedition to Sicily in Book Six of Thucydides is incredibly compelling reading.

Well I never ..

A teenager just sold an electronic bowdlerization service for $30 million.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/business/media/nick-daloisio-17-sells-summly-app-to-yahoo.html?hp

We’ll see if everyone is still a Roman calendar aficionado on the Kalends of March.

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I really got bogged down in the Social Structures chapter of Europe in the High Middle Ages, but now that I’m into the Innocent III and the Fourth Lateran Council chapter it’s SMOOTH SAILING.

There’s no question that blunderbuss is the most ridiculous name for a weapon. You should stop laughing right now; A blunderbuss will FUCK YOU UP.

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Top Hardcore 6th-8th Century Papal Names

  • Honorius I
  • Severinus
  • St. Vitalian
  • Donus
  • Sisinnius
  • St. Agatho
  • Adeodatus II
  • St. Benedict II