Matt Davies for September 10, 2014

when you’re full of steroids it’s hard to tell where the office is.

Clearly the only reasonable solution is to create a new sport where the opposing players do not actually interact with one another.

When I first looked at this ‘toon this morning, it immediately brought to mind a scene in Mel Brook’s movie “A History of the World Part 1”, where, in ancient Rome, Bea Arthur, as a clerk at the unemployment office, was telling a centurion that these were his last un-employment coins, and that he had to kill someone this week, or he would lose his elligibility!

NIce to know that when a girlfriend swings on a guy, crosses the elevator to hit him again, and he decks her, it makes violence so more inappropriate than killing a couple hundred thousand civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq. Oh, well, unless two Americans are killed by a nut group, not like the over 4,000 killed in a war we never should have started in the first place, that don’t seem to matter as much??

Actually, not all gladiators were slaves; a lot of them were former slaves, what the Romans called, ‘Freedmen’. When they weren’t competing in the arena, they often hired themselves out as bodyguards, or political bullyboys.