Julius Caesar strolls into a Boston bar, gives the bartender a hard look and says, "Give me a martinus, straight up, three olives." The bartender is confused and says, "Sir, are you sure it's not a martini that you want?" Caesar looks him dead in the eye and growls, "I want a martinus. If I wanted a double, I would have said so!"
It's a joke and if you don't get it, you can blame the Progressive Education Movement which over many decades has transformed a pretty good public school system into a national embarrassment. One of Progressive Education's first targets was the teaching of Latin, which had been a curricular staple in schools for two thousand years.
Expect the Republican's victory Tuesday in a special election for U.S. House of Representatives in Georgia to be gone and forgotten within 48 hours.
Had the race the gone the other way, and the Democrat been the victor, we'd be hearing how it was the beginning of the end of President Donald Trump. Over and over.
