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Shakespeare in a Corporation or Job Interview

Posted on January 21, 2014 by jimmie

 “…there are throats to be cut and works to be done.” (King Henry V, act 3, sc. 4) Probably, Shakespeare would not fare well today in a job interview. For example, it is assumed, especially in a sales or marketing position, that the candidate must “like people”. Silly words for a silly concept. Some people Read More

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Shakespeare and the Shenanigans of the New Jersey’s Governor

Posted on January 14, 2014 by jimmie

“… and you shall not sin, If you do say we think him over-proud And under-honest; in self-assumption greater Than in the note of judgment.” (Troilus and Cressida, act 2, sc. 3) That history repeats itself is an adage with multiple contributors. It started with the biblical Ecclesiastes “Nothing new under the sun”  (Nihil sub Read More

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Shakespeare, Health Care, Doctors and ADHD

Posted on December 20, 2013 by jimmie

“And thou, too careless patient as thou art, Commit’st thy anointed body to the cure Of those physicians that first wounded thee” (King Richard II, act 2, sc. 1) Call it suspension of disbelief, or rather suspension of belief. But disbelief is called for when, on sundry TV snippets, dedicated to health, we listen to Read More

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Shakespeare, False Smiles and a Document from the Bankers’ Magazine

Posted on December 14, 2013 by jimmie

“… he does smile his face into more lines than are in the new map, with the augmentation of the Indies.” (Twelfth Night, act 3, sc. 2) Visitors to this site are well aware of the veneer of courtesy usually appearing on the face of economic and political pundits – praising democracy as a pretense Read More

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Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky and the Brothers Karamazov

Posted on December 11, 2013 by jimmie

“When I consider everything that grows, Holds in perfection but a little moment, That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows, Whereon the stars in secret influence comment.” (SON.15) While considering the lies (except one), uttered by Obama at Mandela’s funeral, I returned to the “Brothers Karamazov”, as a kind of “phylosophy’s sweet milk” and Read More

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Shakespeare and the Defeat of the Swiss Referendum on Compensations

Posted on November 26, 2013 by jimmie

“Do they all deny her? An they were sons of mine, I’d have them whipped; or I would send them to the Turk, to make eunuchs of.“ (All’s Well That Ends Well, act 2, sc. 5) When it became known that Switzerland would hold a referendum – limiting the spread between the lowest and the Read More

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Shakespeare on History of Man extended to Art

Posted on October 10, 2013 by jimmie

“There is a history in all men’s lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased; The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of Read More

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Shakespeare and Lies that Stretch to the Crack of Doom

Posted on September 9, 2013 by jimmie

Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy: the bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores And make a sop of all this solid globe: Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead: Force should Read More

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American Football and Absurdity

Posted on September 5, 2013 by jimmie

“This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,–often the surfeit of our own behavior,–we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; … an admirable evasion Read More

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Shakespeare and the Treason of Public Trust. Who is the criminal?

Posted on June 25, 2013 by jimmie

“Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either’s purpose” (King Henry V, act 2, sc. 2) Comment.  Rarely an episode shows the symbolic meaning of things and the current patterns of society as the recent developments arising from Edward Snowden’s revelations. Revelations about the immense spying operation by the US Government Read More

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