OTHELLOS AND IAGOS WE’VE LOVED AND HATED PART 1
CULTURAL NAIF I’VE ALWAYS BEEN (Moby-Dick is about this big whale), Shakespeare’s Othello is a good-guy Moor, albeit prone to jealousy and homocide; Iago is a bad-guy all-around-conniving ensign. Imagine … Continue reading
TRUMPIAN INANITIES
FOR A “VERY STABLE GENIUS,” OUR QUEENS FELON seems to be coming up with some lamebrain actions. Here are several. Image by abc7.com The Tariffs. Despite many learned economists professing … Continue reading
SKEPTICAL OF SUPERMAN??
HA! THIS BEGAN WITH A MOMENTARY SKEPTICISM of the Man of Steel, faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single … Continue reading
APRIL 5 PROTEST POSTERS
THIS PAST SATURDAY WAS A NATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST against the chaos of Trump and his administration. The New York Times, April 5, 2025, reported “Mass Protests Across the Country … Continue reading
THE ACTIONS OF A QUEENS FELON
SUCCINCTLY, THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES have elected a Queens felon to our highest office. He demands utter loyalty. (Read about Gen. Timothy D. Haugh below; recall James Comey.) … Continue reading
TRUMP ON AUTOMOTIVE EMISSIONS
I CONFESS I KNOW LITTLE about politics. But I surely know about automotive emissions. I understand their evolution from tetraethyllead additives introduced in the 1920s, through the mid-1960s assessments of … Continue reading
ENOUGH OF THE TRUMPKRIEG!
TODAY, APRIL 5, 2025, MANY AROUND THE COUNTRY will express their objection to the chaos caused by the Trump administration. We have witnessed injustices heaped upon injustices, some so immense … Continue reading
ROMEO, WHO ART THOU? JULIET DITTO PART 2
THIS ALL STARTED WITH MY VIEWING the 1936 flick Romeo and Juliet on TMC. Today in Part 2 we finally get down to Act I Scene 5 at a Capulet … Continue reading
WHEREVER ARE DEMOCRATS GOING?
LISA LERER, NATIONAL POLITICS CORRESPONDENT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES, recently described “four categories to explain how to make sense of the fractured Democratic opposition.” I found her analysis particularly … Continue reading
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ROMEO, WHO ART THOU? JULIET DITTO PART 1
TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES HAS BEEN FEATURING Romeo and Juliet, the 1936 flick of this Shakespeare classic. Its viewing encouraged me into gleaning tidbits from Rowse’s The Annotated Shakespeare as well … Continue reading →