Can you imagine how excited Fox News would have

been when Socrates drank the hemlock and Jesus died

on the cross?

Time Tourist #9

Socrates Self-Medicates, NRA-Style

"OK, Socrates, define 'grumpy', if you're so goddam smart!"

Nature abhors a vacuum. This has been true 

since one of the preSocratics first ejaculated, 

"Goddam this Eureka!."

Mitt Wit #2

"My guess is, by the way, that Obama will not be 

appearing in front of Greek columns like in Denver. 

He won't want to remind people of Greece and that

rascal Socrates."

"Plato's Dialogues are a clear sign that 'Socratic Irony' (if you've

 got a better term, let me know) is eating into the foundation of

our political system."

Here's how education reform is debated in Athens,

Socrates' home town. First, students rally. Second, the

police gas them and threaten to bring out the hemlock.