Category Archives: Fighting your Adversary

Shakespeare, Pretense and the Second Presidential Debate

Posted on October 17, 2012 by jimmie

“So, my good window of lattice, fare thee well; thy casement I need not open, for I look through thee.” (All’s Well That Ends Well act 2, sc. 3) Comments.  Talk about pretense! We can see through the window of words, indeed we do not need to open the casement (of the two presidential candidates). Read More

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Shakespeare, Conspiracy and US Foreign Policy

Posted on October 15, 2012 by jimmie

“…O conspiracy! Sham’st thou to show thy dangerous brow by night, When evils are most free? O, then by day Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough To mask thy monstrous visage? Seek none, Conspiracy; Hide it in smiles and affability: For if thou have thy native semblance on, Not Erebus itself were dim Read More

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Shakespeare on the Unbelievable, Were it not True

Posted on October 1, 2012 by jimmie

“Or sleep I now and think I hear all this? What error drives our eyes and ears amiss?” (Comedy of Errors, act 2, sc. 2) Comments.  Unbelievable! This, I am pretty sure, will be the reaction of viewers of this entry when they will watch the reasonably short video, listed at the end of the Read More

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Shakespeare on Having Had Enough

Posted on September 30, 2012 by jimmie

“I do condemn mine ears that have So long attended thee.” (Cymbeline act 1, sc. 6) Comments.  The line accurately reflects how many people feel about the presidential debates or about whoever talks, comments, extols, criticizes, pontificates about one or the other candidate in the presidential election. Politics is kept issue-less; the promise of political Read More

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Shakespeare on Zero Tolerance

Posted on September 25, 2012 by jimmie

“I will be deaf to pleading and excuses; Nor tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses” (Romeo and Juliet, act 3, sc. 1) Comments.  Interesting expression, “Zero Tolerance”. It projects absolute and unyielding determination. That ‘zero’ brings the precision of mathematics into human affairs. Determination to stamp-out Tolerance and, by inference, to carry out Intolerance. Read More

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Shakespeare on Anger and a Desire for Rebellion

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jimmie

“O, that my tongue were in the thunder’s mouth! Then with a passion would I shake the world.” (King John, act 3, sc. 4) Tips for Use and Comments. A most appropriate quote when you feel helpless about a series of events on which you have no control or power. You feel only anger and Read More

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Shakespeare and how Lobbying Works

Posted on September 18, 2012 by jimmie

“Comest thou with deep premeditated lines, With written pamphlets studiously devised Humphrey of Gloucester?” (King Henry VI part 1, act 3, sc.1) Comments.  In the instance, the bishop of Winchester accuses the duke of Gloucester of using “studiously devised” documentation so as to deprive the bishop of his rights, whatever they may be. Today, the Read More

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Shakespeare on Equivocation, Confusion and Meaning

Posted on September 9, 2012 by jimmie

“We must speak by the card or equivocation will undo us.” (Hamlet, act 5, sc. 1) Comments. Two historians separated in time by millennia said the same thing, A historian must describe things “as they happened” (wie es eigentlich gewesen), according to Ranke (author of the monumental History of the Popes). Much earlier on Herodotus Read More

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Shakespeare on the State of the Union

Posted on September 8, 2012 by jimmie

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” (Hamlet, act 1, sc. 4) Tips for Use.   Apply to place, company, state, nation or organization where you firmly believe that rot outweighs soundness. Not long ago, he who writes here was plying the waters of the Willamette River at the helm, or rather the paddles of Read More

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Shakespeare on the Difference between Democrats and Republicans

Posted on September 7, 2012 by jimmie

“… you weigh equally; a feather will turn the scale.” (Measure For Measure, act 4, sc. 2) Tips for Use.   Perfectly applicable line to the alleged differences between Democrats and Republicans. With the techniques of George Bernay’s (his booklet “Propaganda” should be mandatory reading in any educational institution), every effort is made to maintain the Read More

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