After a brief break for the Holiday to allow the Big Game to take place Bread & Circuses is back. In Walhalla, North Dakota, a town in the rural northeast of the state, John Kalis 52, murdered his wife Sharon Kalis, 41. Tracy Ward, 28 of Randolph County, Alabama murdered his wife with a rifle blast to the head ...

“Bread and circuses” or bread and games from Latin: panem et circenses is a metaphor for handouts and petty amusements that politicians use to gain popular support, instead of gaining it through sound policy. The phrase is invoked not only to criticize politicians, but also to criticize their supporters for giving up their civic duty.In

... this will work?" "People are simple. We give them full bellies, we entertain them, we distract them. They will become as children. Yet they will love us for it." And this is how the Roman spectacle of Bread and Circuses came about. Of course, in these enlightened times, 2000-odd years later, we're far more savvy than ...

... corruption on a daily basis, we need to continue to believe in our sportsmen's commitment to fair play. It was Juvenal who coined the phrase 'bread and circuses' to describe the way the Roman empire handed out titbits and entertainments to distract the masses from the fundamental injustice of imperial life. However unfair life as a ...

Detroit's sports teams work to lure bargain-hunting fans "Last season, Mike Kennedy paid $30 per game for four upper-deck Pistons season tickets. But as this season approached, he decided because of the economy -- and the slim title hopes of his team -- it was a good time not to renew. "We weren't going to renew, but the Pistons called and made it hard to say no," said ...

A short list of the headlines on CNN.com that appear (11:24pm central time, 11/20/09) before stories about the Senate's health care reform bill being voted on tomorrow: 1) Fans mourn end of 'Oprah' show 2) Arrests in human fat ring in Peru 3) Bishops slam Obama bill Here's betting there is more mourning for the loss of Oprah's show than for the loss of liberty if the health & ...