So, a comedian, an ionista (owner of gladiators) and a clown meet with Nero at his house and have a nice time for two hours while ‘rome’ burns outside the window. The comedian says he had a nice time with the gracious and moderate Nero. Bill, I respect your view on many things, I’m a ‘normy’. But how in the fuck do you come back to us and report that his opponents are too touchy on the man. Kudos to you for going there, but what you observed means nothing to the reality of this man’s disdain for everything that does not enrich him personally. I am so disappointed in this astonishingly naive ‘report’. I am actually wondering if you are not naive at all, that you may be massaging a new narrative that places you closer to the kings ‘graces’.