Friday, June 17, 2011

"Nine tons of historical excrement"

No, not the Congressional Record: "waste that has been found in the sewer system of the town of Herculaneum, which was buried by an eruption from nearby Mt Vesuvius near Naples in AD79."

You send your daughter to Penn and she aces archeology, lands a gig in Italy, and gets to sift through this.

Girls, please get the grapes off the table.

Content analysis: "they feasted on sea urchins and dormice as well as fish, figs, olives and eggs." Insufficiently interesting, except for the dormice. Find a new project.