For his fifth labor, King Eurystheus ordered Heracles to clean the stables of King Augeas in a single day. The Augean Stables housed over 3,000 immortal cattle and had not been cleaned in decades ...

When Hercules agreed to clean the stables, Augeas was pleased—although he later gypped the strong man out of his reward. But that is running ahead of this week’s news that New York’s Federal ...

The mighty man stepped gingerly into the Augean stables, sniffed once and backed out again. Hercules was unwilling ... he needed for a thorough stable-cleaning; he was to get no powers to subpoena ...

The Augean stables were said to have contained the manure that had accumulated over 30 years from the king’s 3,000 cattle. According to the fable, Hercules promised to clean up the stable in a ...

But not the Catholic Church, oh no. This week, once again showing their, ahem, flexible approach to the teachings of the good book, the Vatican has announced that it is giving up any form of ...