Comment by FearNotDaniel

> their blog

_his_ blog. It’s all written by one man. But I agree that it’s a remarkable blog, so fascinating and freely given.

While I’m in grumpy-old-man-shakes-fist-at-newfangled-grammar mode, I can _almost_ accept that people writing in the “historical present” is unavoidable these days since TV historians have made it so trendy, but it’s especially jarring when he changes tense in the middle of a sentence (emphasis mine):

> These settlers _were_ remarkably well compensated, because part of what the Hellenistic kings _are_ trying to do is…