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Shakespeare on Health-care and the Bad Effect of Sugars

Posted on March 2, 2013 by jimmie

“… a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings.” (Midsummer Night’s Dream act 2, sc. 2) Comment. This site is not specifically targeting health, but it is worth pointing out that no expensive “discoveries” and expensive “researches” are necessary to rediscover what is intuitive. Take this statement, chosen at random Read More

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Shakespeare and Ed Koch

Posted on February 7, 2013 by jimmie

“…the tears live in an onion that should water this sorrow.” (Antony and Cleopatra, act 1, sc. 2)   Comment.  I am referring to the political persona, not to the human being. The death of Ed Koch, three times mayor of New York has brought in the usual flood of tributes from the establishment and Read More

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Shakespeare, Italian Cities and the Mystery of Things

Posted on February 2, 2013 by jimmie

… And take upon’s the mystery of things (King Lear, act 5, sc. 3) It is good to be home in Portland, after a fast trip with three presentations in Genoa, Turin and Milan – presentations of my book, (title translated), “Our Daily Dante – 3500 ways to get away with it with Dante”. This Read More

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Shakespeare on the Pope Blessing the CIA Director

Posted on January 20, 2013 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) Comments. If the director of the CIA, Leon Panetta, can get a blessing from the Pope, it is high time to dial up Milton and from his Paradise Lost call up Read More

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Shakespeare and the Hounding to Death of a Noble Heart

Posted on January 15, 2013 by jimmie

“Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince: And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!”  (Hamlet, act 5 sc. 2) Aaron Swartz, Internet pioneer, crusader for open access and a social justice activist, took his life last week in Brooklyn, NY. He was 26 and the victim of a malicious and vindictive Read More

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Shakespeare on the Afghans’ Point of View

Posted on January 6, 2013 by jimmie

“In time we hate that which we often fear. ” (Antony and Cleopatra, act 1, sc. 3) The news from the corporate media is such that, should they declare that today Jan 6, 2013 is Sunday, it is advisable to check for yourself that it is really so. It follows that many (or rather that Read More

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Shakespeare on Courage and Julian Assange’s Christmas Message

Posted on December 23, 2012 by jimmie

“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 on Europe’s Shameful Slavery to the Empire

Posted on December 19, 2012 by jimmie

 “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

Posted on December 17, 2012 by jimmie

 “… 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

Posted on December 15, 2012 by jimmie

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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