Category Archives: Insults Shakespeare-style

Shakespeare, Truth and Malaysian Flight MH17

Posted on August 28, 2014 by jimmie

“… he will lie, sir, with such volubility,that you would think truth were a fool” All’s Well That Ends Well, act 4, sc. 3 Readers will no doubt have noticed the stony silence of both the regime media and of the Administration about the investigation on how flight MH17 was brought down and by whom.

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Shakespeare, Ferguson and Crowds

Posted on August 19, 2014 by jimmie

“I will no more trust him when he leers, than I will a serpent when he hisses.” Troilus and Cressida, act 5, sc. 1 Dr. Johnson used to say that the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and Read More

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Ukraine and a Repeat of Lithuania

Posted on March 15, 2014 by jimmie

“Are there no stones in heaven But what serve for thunder?” (Othello, act 5, sc. 2) In traditional history, it was the slaves who rebelled against the masters. But in the revised Huxley’s edition of our brave new world it is the masters who revolt against the slaves. Which, more or less, is what happened Read More

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Shakespeare, Ukraine and the Smoking Gun

Posted on February 20, 2014 by jimmie

I will no more trust him when he leers, than I will a serpent when he hisses.” (Troilus and Cressida, act 5, sc. 1) The expression “smoking gun”, as we know, is intended to represent incontrovertible evidence of a crime, or of a generic act of lawlessness. The term is derived from Conan Doyle’s story Read More

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Shakespeare, America and the Superbowl

Posted on February 1, 2014 by jimmie

“Mad I call it; for, to define true madness, What is ‘t but to be nothing else but mad? But let that go.” (Hamlet, act 2, sc. 2) This article may irritate or alienate some American Internauts who regularly visit this site. If so, I am sorry but the information is based on publicly available Read More

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Shakespeare and the Shenanigans of the New Jersey’s Governor

Posted on January 14, 2014 by jimmie

“… and you shall not sin, If you do say we think him over-proud And under-honest; in self-assumption greater Than in the note of judgment.” (Troilus and Cressida, act 2, sc. 3) That history repeats itself is an adage with multiple contributors. It started with the biblical Ecclesiastes “Nothing new under the sun”  (Nihil sub Read More

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Shakespeare, Mandela and Immeasurable Hypocrisy

Posted on December 7, 2013 by jimmie

“A huge translation of hypocrisy, Vilely compiled, profound simplicity” (Love’s Labours Lost, act 5, sc. 2) If it were possible to invent a hypocrisiometer (hypocrisy meter), from now to the day of Mandela’s funeral, the indicator would go out of range. Still, a virtual measurement that would demonstrate a few truths, however self-evident, and dealt Read More

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Shakespeare and Lies that Stretch to the Crack of Doom

Posted on September 9, 2013 by jimmie

Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy: the bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores And make a sop of all this solid globe: Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead: Force should Read More

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Shakespeare and the Sanitization of History at Purdue University

Posted on August 5, 2013 by jimmie

“… woe upon ye, And all such false professors!” (King Henry VIII, act 3, sc. 1) In the distant 1940 Bertrand Russell wrote, “Academic freedom in this country is threatened from two sources: the plutocracy and the churches, which endeavor between them to establish an economic and a theological censorship’” 73 years later the strength Read More

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The “Niggerization” of the Plantation

Posted on July 25, 2013 by jimmie

 “… like one Who having unto truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.” (Tempest, act 2, sc. 2) Hypocrisy is a flattering tribute to power. Occasionally political power must pretend to take into account the other power from which (theoretically) draws its source. Hypocrisy is Read More

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