Tag: Shakespeare
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Republican Kabuki: An Appreciation
On the one hand, the entire Republican Party is utterly full of shit. But, on the other, aren’t all actors? The GOP bailed on governing eons ago. It’s just not their thing. A sizeable chunk of the Trumpian base – the white supremacist core – only ever liked democracy when only they took part in…
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It’s Holocaust Remembrance Day – A Good Day To Remember “What A Piece Of Work Is Man?”
That damned Shakespeare — he always seemed to nail us humans with all the irony due us. Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. 76 years ago today, the Russian army liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the Nazi’s death camps. 1.1 million people, most of them Jews, died within Auschwitz’s razor-wired fences. Some were openly murdered —…
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America’s Love Affair With “Stupid”, Part II: “Donald Trump, Super Star”
A thought experiment. Put these two things in your mind together — Donald Trump & the word “stupid”. Aside from drawing the direct connection — “Donald Trump is stupid” (an inescapable fact) — let the two things sit for a moment. Yes, Donald Trump is stupid… but how is Donald Trump stupid? In what ways…