Shakespeare on a Hand-cuffed and Abused Santa Claus in Texas

Posted on December 27, 2012 by jimmie

A staff is quickly found to beat a dog“The ancient proverb will be well effected, – A staff is quickly found to beat a dog.”

 (King Henry VI part 2 act 3, sc. 1)

Comments. As you can see from the picture (and from the video whose link is also posted in this entry), in Austin, Texas, Santa Claus has been handcuffed and made to lay to the ground. His guilt? Having chalked on the pavement near the government building words such as ‘Peace’ and ‘Love’. His repeated question and lament “Why am I arrested?” receives a barely audible answer by the police-person, “for chalking”.
The arrest was targeted – other ‘chalkers’ weren’t arrested. The Santa Claus in question happens to be also an activist for the preservation of Alaska’s wilderness, therefore a ‘communist’, or better a ‘terrorist’ in the warped minds of the 1%.
The image of this man thrown on the ground is filled with so much symbolism Continue reading →

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Shakespeare, the Elusive Christmas Rose and a Video from the Webrunner

Posted on December 24, 2012 by jimmie

At Christmas I no more desire a rose, than wish a snow in May's new fangled mirth, but like of each thing as in season grows“At Christmas I no more desire a rose,
Than wish a snow in May’s new fangled mirth,
But like of each thing as in season grows.”

(Love’s Labours Lost, act 1, sc. 1)

Comments. Today’s comment is made up of wishes to the thousands of visitors to this Shakespearean site. Along with a short video “son-et-lumiere” on Oregon, home of this site and of its webrunner.

vimeo.com/55063954

(copy and paste on browser if it does not click the first time or a message says that video is not there)

 

 

Tips for Use. An example to show that there is a time and season for all things.

In the play. Prompted to give a reason for his disapproval of the king’s proposal of prolonged study and enforced abstinence, Biron suggests that learning, in the circumstances of the play,  is out of place and season.

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Shakespeare on Peace with Comments on the King’s Chapel Christmas Concert

Posted on December 24, 2012 by jimmie

And peace proclaims olives of endless age“And peace proclaims olives of endless age”

(SON 107)

 

Comments. I like(d) to listen to the Cambridge King’s College Choir’ Christmas Concert. This time I didn’t and opted instead to tune in to the Spanish-Mexican Radio Station of Portland, Oregon – where even Silent Night and Auld Lang Sine are played with mariachi trumpets in the typical chicabum-chicabum rhythm of south-of-the-border. Not to leave out the lyrics of various songs, in which, typically, a jilted boyfriend wishes a Merry Christmas to his ex, suggesting, however, that should she change her mind, she knows where to find him.
Why the switch? The matter Continue reading →

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Shakespeare on Courage and Julian Assange’s Christmas Message

Posted on December 23, 2012 by jimmie

courage mpunteth with occasion“Courage mounteth with occasion: Let them be welcome then, we are prepared.”

(King John, act 2, sc. 1)

Comments. Of the many forthcoming or already pronounced “Christmas” messages, the truest to the spirit of the season and the temper of the times comes from Julian Assange, holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy, besieged by the representatives of evil (the real axis of evil). Here it is reported in full: Continue reading →

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Shakespeare, Murdoch, and the Conspiracy of Silence

Posted on December 21, 2012 by jimmie

While you here do snoring lie, Open-eyed conspiracy His time doth take If of life you keep a care, Shake off slumber, and beware:“While you here do snoring lie,
Open-eyed conspiracy
His time doth take.
If of life you keep a care,
Shake off slumber, and beware:
Awake, awake!”

(Tempest, act.2, sc. 2)

Comments. Early in 2011 Rupert Murdoch sent the head of his media outlet Fox News to Afghanistan to persuade the now disgraced Gen. Petaeus to run against Obama as the Republican Candidate in the 2012 elections. Murdoch promised to bankroll Petraeus’ campaign and commit Fox News to provide the general with money and of course with media support. Continue reading →

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Shakespeare on Europe’s Shameful Slavery to the Empire

Posted on December 19, 2012 by jimmie

... you are all recreants and dastards, and delight to live in slavery to the nobility “I thought ye would never have given out these arms till you had recovered your ancient freedom: but you are all recreants and dastards, and delight to live in slavery to the nobility”

(King Henry VI part 2, act 4, sc. 8)

Comments. The Obama administration has already declared war on Syria, even if it isn’t “official” yet. The facts are, the U.S. now recognizes a group of Syrian exiles to be the official government of Syria; the U.S. is providing direct support for rebels Continue reading →

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Shakespeare on Confusion, Law, Terrorism and Terrorist Experts

Posted on December 17, 2012 by jimmie

confusion's cure lives not In these confusions, romeo and juliet “… confusion’s cure lives not
In these confusions.”

(Romeo and Juliet, act 4, sc. 5)

Comments. Sometimes interesting revelations are found when and where they are least expected – in the instance by the ruling by the New York Court of Appeals, in the criminal case of People v. Edgar Morales, last week. Morales, after a christening party, had killed in a gang shooting a rival gang member and, accidentally, a bystander, a young girl.
To the charges of murder and related crimes the prosecutors Continue reading →

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Shakespeare on Hypocrisy or Blindness to Facts or Both

Posted on December 15, 2012 by jimmie

polonius, with devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himselfPOLONIUS We are oft to blame in this, –
‘Tis too much proved–that with devotion’s visage
And pious action we do sugar o’er
The devil himself.
KING CLAUDIUS [Aside] O, ’tis too true!
How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience!

(Hamlet, act 3, sc. 1)

Comments. The massacre at the school in Newton, Connecticut requires no description. It follows, in the same week, another such shooting at a shopping mall in Portland, Oregon with three victims. As (regrettably) usual the media provides non-stop coverage but never an attempt to an explanation, other than over worn adjectives such as “inexplicable” Continue reading →

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Shakespeare on Injustice or Justice Unequally Applied

Posted on December 13, 2012 by jimmie

some rise by sin and some by virtue fall“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall:
Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none:
And some condemned for a fault alone.”

(Measure For Measure, act 2, sc. 1)

Comments. The US incarcerates more of its citizens than any nation on earth, both in absolute numbers and proportionally. But the law is flexible when the nation’s most powerful actors are caught breaking the law. With few exceptions, they are gifted not merely with leniency, but full-scale immunity from criminal punishment. In fact t Continue reading →

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Shakespeare on Law, its Administration and Imperialist Anarchy

Posted on December 11, 2012 by jimmie

When law can do no right, Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong“When law can do no right,
let it be lawful that law bar no wrong”

(King John act 3, sc. 1)

Comments. This is the information that you will NOT find in the corporate media. In April 2011, the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY) found Croatian general Ante Gotovina and Assistant Interior Minister Mladen Markac guilty of war crimes committed during 1995’s Operation Storm military offensive and sentenced them to 24 years’ and 18 years’ imprisonment, respectively. Continue reading →

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