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Don’t Cry For Me Venezuela

Posted on June 28, 2017 by jimmie

According to the great Dr. Johnson, “Men can be estimated by those who know them not, only as they are represented by those who know them.” An unavoidable universal contingency – for, indeed, we don’t know most of the people we judge. And the same, but for a few much-travelled individuals, applies to nations. We Read More

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Basket of Deplorables

Posted on January 26, 2017 by jimmie

…a dialog with deplorables… I was walking home after a moderate jog in the park, looking at the barren trees and the boughs where late the sweet birds sang… – thinking ahead about the daffodils that come before the swallows dare…, when I heard a voice calling me. It was Alexis, the son of Callimacus, Read More

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Erdowin, Erdowon, Erdogan

Posted on July 23, 2016 by jimmie

… hing, hang, hog… Hang hog is Latin for bacon, I warrant you. (Merry Wives of Windsor, act 4, sc.1) To the articulate speculations of many analysts on the failed coup in Turkey I will not add the vanity of my conjectures – for, clearly, everything and its opposite seem equally possible. I cannot guess Read More

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Chicago Burning

Posted on June 9, 2016 by jimmie

“…a man’s life’s no more than to say ‘One.’ ” Hamlet, act V, sc. 1 During the recent Memorial Day week-end in Chicago, eight people were killed, and at least 57 more wounded. For somewhat  folkloristically funereal reasons, it is a tradition to count the murdered, the shot and the wounded  during this quintessential American Read More

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Mass-shootings and False Consciousness

Posted on October 29, 2015 by jimmie

“… The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveler returns – puzzles the will. And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of.” (Hamlet, act 3, sc. 1) Roseburg is the approximate equivalent of a continental European small provincial town. It is the seat of Douglas Read More

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Unofficial Charleston

Posted on June 24, 2015 by jimmie

A man’s life is no more than to say “one” (Hamlet, act 5, sc. 2)   Given the massive media coverage, to further expostulate on the Charleston murders, why day is day, night is night and time is time, were nothing but to waste night, day and time, to borrow from Polonius. Call for indignation? Read More

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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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Comedy of Terrors

Posted on January 23, 2015 by jimmie

“Madness in great ones must not unwatch’d go.” Hamlet, act 3, sc. 1   While “misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows”(1), the FBI looks for strange bed-fellows to increase their misery – in the name of the war on terror and terrors. Some background for our international readers. The

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Charlie Hebdo, Ali Aba and 40 Hypocrites

Posted on January 15, 2015 by jimmie

” ‘Tis too much proved – that with devotion’s visage And pious action we do sugar o’er the devil himself.” Hamlet, act 3, sc. 1 Ali Baba had to deal with forty thieves. After the Charlie Hebdo attack, Paris dealt with forty heads of state. But while the thieves in the tale practiced thievery, the Read More

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Shakespeare, Courage & a Fallen Hero

Posted on November 20, 2014 by jimmie

“…there’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is’t to leave betimes? Read More

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