No good deed goes unpunished

Nov 10, 2026 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

(Kaieteur News) – Among those who joined the conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar in 44 BC was Marcus Junius Brutus, a man Caesar had previously pardoned after the civil war. Caesar had spared his life, restored him to favour and trusted him. Brutus repaid this generosity by helping to put a knife into him. Literally.

Mark Twain is credited with observing that if you pick up a starving dog and feed it, the dog will not bite you. That, he suggested, was the principal difference between a dog and a human being.