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Murder Most Foul

Posted on June 3, 2015 by jimmie

“Murder most foul, as in the best it is”… but the murder of yet another innocent family in Gorlovka, East Ukraine, properly qualifies for being “most foul, strange and unnatural.” And, given that brevity is the soul of wit (1), in the short video, linked to this blog, brevity is the soul of horror. We Read More

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License to Kill

Posted on May 29, 2015 by jimmie

“ Out, damned spot! out, I say! … What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? — Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him.” (Macbeth, act 5, sc. 1) That policemen have a license to kill sounds a somewhat Read More

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Osama, or You Only Die Twice

Posted on May 19, 2015 by jimmie

… a double plunge into… “the undiscovered country, from whose bourn no traveller returns.” (Hamlet 3.1) Recent American history proves that various successive Administrations expect the populace to believe anything, provided it is quite incredible.

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Words and Nothingness

Posted on May 5, 2015 by jimmie

A fine volley of words, gentlemen, and quickly shot off. Two Gentlemen from Verona Some agree that it is possible to measure a character from his appearance (“… costly thy habit as thy purse can buy….” (1)), from his demeanor (“So may the outward shows be least themselves, the world is still deceived with ornament” Read More

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Literature, Life & Baltimore Riots

Posted on April 29, 2015 by jimmie

“Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment.” Hamlet, 1.3 Articles published on this site are occasionally posted on other social media outlets, such as, for example, the “LITERATURE” Linked-in group. Some critics in that group have objected to the unwarranted intrusion, on the grounds that the blogs in the “Your Daily Shakespeare” website are Read More

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Prelude to the Farce, Farewell to the Truth

Posted on April 24, 2015 by jimmie

“Time’s glory is… to unmask falsehood and bring truth to light…” Rape of Lucrece That Hillary Rodham Clinton would attempt to, and probably will be, the next president of the United States, is the best un-kept secret of the last few years, whose confirmation has just become official.

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Victory in the War on Terror

Posted on April 7, 2015 by jimmie

“… out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety” King Henry IV, part 1 The FBI has stealthily uncovered and arrested two dangerous New York terrorists of the gentler sex, who were conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction – another victory in the war on terror. The originality of the case Read More

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Ukraine, Shakespeare & the Oligarchs

Posted on March 23, 2015 by jimmie

“…all is uneven and every thing is left at six and seven.” King Richard II, act 2, sc. 2 It is hard to imagine how the chroniclers of the mainstream media can still maintain that the Ukraine coup of February 2014 had anything to do with democracy. It is an endeavor similar to mingling oil Read More

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Syriza, Not So Greek to Us

Posted on March 6, 2015 by jimmie

CASSIUS Did Cicero say any thing? CASCA Ay, he spoke Greek. CASSIUS  To what effect? CASCA (I don’t know)… but those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but, for mine own part, it was Greek to me. Julius Caesar, act 1, sc. 2 It was almost inevitable that the meteoric Read More

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Shakespeare & Valentine Quotes

Posted on February 11, 2015 by jimmie

He who watches the mainstream news, or alternative sources, with  videos showing beheadings by Isis, and the slaughter of civilians in Novorussia by the army of democracy, has reasons for pessimism. The news may prompt a mood where this goodly frame the earth seems a sterile promontory, and this most excellent canopy, the air, this Read More

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