Harpo starts saving the world Passing lightly over that bit where I didn't write anything for nine months, I want to take this opportunity to make a difference to the world. I want to give a little back, to make my mark, to make the world a better, greater place.

The first step in bringing about change, I understand, is to acknowledge what is wrong and, ladies and gentlemen, this is where I come into my own. Criticism. Oh yeah.

To start this project of bringing about world peace, I present, in chronological order, Harpo's Top Ten of history's greatest mistakes.

1. Emperor Honorius executing his general Stilicho leading to the Sack of Rome in 410
2. The destruction of the library at Alexandria
3. The British losing their American colony through overtaxing
4. That thing where we chopped all the trees down
5. Napoleon's invasion of Russia
6. Hitler's invasion of Russia
7. Basically anybody trying to invade Russia, it seems
8. Iraq
9. Facebook letting people use verbs other than ‘is’ in their status update
10. Again with the trees. Chopping down trees isn't working out well

So there we have it. All we have to do learn from these mistakes, because — as we know — those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it.

…next semester.

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