Writes Thomas Byrne:

Does the recent bombing of the moon remind you of Suetonius’s tale of Caligula’s declaration of war on Poseidon? USA! We kicked the moon’s behind.

UPDATE from Farrell Nicholson:

Or possibly Herodotus’s account of Xerxes whipping the Hellespont, and ordering his torturers to instruct the waterway as to the reason for its punishment.

The Best of Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.