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In the series finale of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, our heroine takes the fight into the Hellmouth, leading a small band of barely-trained potential Slayers against the uber-vamp horde. Meanwhile, Willow works a spell to share all this grrl power freely. It’s beautiful.
Looking back a couple of seasons, there was the notorious musical [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“To show an unfelt sorrow is an office
Which the false man does easy.” –Macbeth, 2.3.136-37
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels
of chaff; you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when
you have them, they are not worth the search.”
–The Merchant of Venice, 1.1.115-18
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Filths savour but of themselves.” –King Lear, 4.2.39
The Shadow of the Torturer
A SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape) instructor and student speak out against the use of waterboarding, which they regard unambiguously as torture. The instructor reveals:
I ran a waterboard team at SERE and administered dozens of students through the process as a tool to show what the worst looks like, short of death. This [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Sorrow on thee and all the pack of you
That triumph thus upon my misery!” –The Taming of the Shrew, 4.3.33-34
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Sense sure you have,
Else could you not have motion; but sure that sense
Is apoplex’d.” –Hamlet, 3.4.71-73
John Murtha, Stung (Time Warp Edition)
In 1980, Congressman John Murtha (D-PA) met with gentlemen purporting to represent a sheik named Abdul, and asked them for back-door money in exchange for legislative favors (a grant of asylum to the fictitious and eponymous sheik Abdul). He was later to discover that he met FBI agents, and that their successful pseudo-bribery attempt [...]
A New Senator on the Class War
Virginia’s Senator-elect Jim Webb points a finger at the American class struggle as few of his peers ever have:
The most important–and unfortunately the least debated–issue in politics today is our society’s steady drift toward a class-based system, the likes of which we have not seen since the 19th century. America’s top tier has grown infinitely [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“A terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged
off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof
itself would have earned him.” –Twelfth Night, 3.4.180-83
