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

“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 Read More

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

“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 Read More

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

“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 Read More

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Shakespeare on Courage and Julian Assange’s Christmas Message

“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 Read More

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Shakespeare, Murdoch, and the Conspiracy of Silence

“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 Read More

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Shakespeare on Europe’s Shameful Slavery to the Empire

 “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 Read More

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Shakespeare on Confusion, Law, Terrorism and Terrorist Experts

 “… 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 Read More

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Shakespeare on Hypocrisy or Blindness to Facts or Both

POLONIUS 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 Read More

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Shakespeare on Injustice or Justice Unequally Applied

“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 Read More

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Shakespeare on Law, its Administration and Imperialist Anarchy

“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 Read More

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