The following is listed in the corrections section of my favorite paper today: “IN ANCIENT ROME, asses were a kind of coin used as currency. Wednesday’s Deja Vu column erroneously said that Roman sumptuary laws limited the number of animals, including donkeys, that could be spent at festivals and parties.”
Now, who or what could have prompted that correction? It must be a coded message to a sleeper cell of supply siders in Univ. of Chicago’s economics department or something.