Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Do any thing but but this thou doest. Empty
Old receptacles, or common shores, of filth;
Serve by indenture to the common hangman:
Any of these ways are yet better than this;
For what thou professest, a babboon, could he speak,
Would own a name to dear.” —Pericles, 4.6.173-78
Meanwhile, Back in the 19th Century…
In three southern states, the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is a joint holiday:
In Arkansas, Alabama and Mississippi, the slain civil rights leader shares a state holiday with Robert E. Lee, commanding officer of the Confederate Army…
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the state’s largest newspaper, typically runs a long editorial noting the general’s birthday each [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Dost thou mock me?” —Othello, 4.1.61
Watch List
Great. US treatment of prisoners has gotten us on the list:
The United States has been listed as a country where prisoners are at risk of torture in a training document produced by the Canadian foreign ministry.
It also classifies some US interrogation techniques as torture.
The manual - part of a training course on torture awareness [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Most ungentle fortune
Have plac’d me in this sty, where, since I came,
Diseases have been sold dearer than physic.”
—Pericles, 4.6.95-97
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“They are like to gnats
Which make a sound, but kill’d are wonder’d at.”
—Pericles, 2.3.62-63
All You Need to Know
GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee finally sticks his neck out:
The United States Constitution never uses the word “God” or makes mention of any religion, drawing its sole authority from “We the People.” However, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee thinks it’s time to put an end to that.
“I have opponents in this race who do [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“We would purge the land of these drones, that rob the bee
of her honey.” —Pericles, 2.1.46-47
Gratuitous Video Feed (George Bush Edition)
Monty Python: “Upperclass Twit of the Year”
Conflict of Interest in California
California workers’ case has been effectively squashed by rampant conflict of interest on the state’s Supreme Court:
SAN FRANCISCO - For years, Braxton Berkley was exposed to chemicals while helping build top-secret military planes at Lockheed Martin’s storied Skunk Works plant. He says those chemicals made him ill — but his case reached a dead end [...]
