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The Bay of Pigs

Posted on April 21, 2016 by jimmie

What seest thou else in the dark backward and abysm of time? The Tempest, act 1. During this April 2016, an anniversary escaped the notice of most – 55 years have run their course since the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. All events gradually sink under the accumulating dust of antique time (1), and Read More

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Stalin, Opinions & the Video Series

Posted on April 14, 2016 by jimmie

Good my Lord, be cured Of this diseased opinion, and betimes, For it is most dangerous.” (1)   The recent video production in the series “Historical Sketches” had to do with five episodes covering the life of Stalin. The very popular blog/website thesaker.is has published the links to the various episodes. (those interested can also Read More

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The Trouble with Trump

Posted on March 16, 2016 by jimmie

“If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.” (Twelfth Night, act 3, sc. 4) By general consent, in American elections there is no kingdom for a stage, there are no princes to act, nor monarchs to behold the swelling scene (1). By tacit agreement, elections stand midway Read More

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Arab Winters

Posted on February 4, 2016 by jimmie

“Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York…” King Richard III, act 1, sc. 1 Five years elapsed since the first of the widely acclaimed “Arab Springs”, though it does not seem that long, as the inaudible and noiseless foot of time (1) conceals its own advance. By Read More

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Atom Bombs, Babes & Cakes

Posted on August 25, 2015 by jimmie

“You are too shallow, Hastings, much too shallow, To sound the bottom of the after-times.” (K. Henry IV part 2) Given Obama’s visit to Hiroshima, I am re-publishing this post from last year. (May 2016) I think it is relevant, for the accepted vulgata does not tell the whole story. (The year 2015 has already 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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Shakespeare, Torture, Ideology and Ridicule

Posted on December 16, 2014 by jimmie

“If that be right which Warwick says is right, There is no wrong, but everything is right.” (King Henry VI part 3, act 2, sc. 2) Historians have written at length on the ideas that inspired great events. Take the 18th century, for example – when there grew, at large, a diffused sensibility towards nature. Read More

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Shakespeare, Patriotism and Exceptionalism

Posted on June 2, 2014 by jimmie

“…there’s not one wise man among twenty that will praise himself.” Much Ado About Nothing, act 5, sc. 2 The term “Patria” or homeland is, of course, of Latin origin, meaning “land of the fathers”. In turn, presidents’ patriotic speeches celebrate the achievements of the inhabitants of their respective “land of the fathers” and, by Read More

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Shakespeare, Godfathers and Radars among the Oranges

Posted on March 21, 2014 by jimmie

“… deal mildly with his youth; For young hot colts being raged do rage the more.” (King Richard II, act 2, sc. 1) Less than 1000 miles West-South-West of Ukraine and Crimea lies the island of Sicily. Where there is no desire for a referendum to join Russia or any other nation. Hence there is Read More

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