Shakespearean Daily Diss
Posted on | January 6, 2009
“Farewell!
The day frowns more and more:–thou’rt like to have
A lullaby too rough.” —The Winter’s Tale, 3.3.54-56
Shakespearean Daily Diss
Posted on | January 5, 2009
“Weep I cannot,
But my heart bleeds: and most accurs’d am I
To be by oath enjoin’d to this.” —The Winter’s Tale, 3.3.52-54
Shakespearean Daily Diss
Posted on | January 2, 2009
“Affrighted much,
I did in time collect myself and thought
This was so and no slumber.” —The Winter’s Tale, 3.3.38-40
Shakespearean Daily Diss
Posted on | January 1, 2009
“For this ungentle business
Put on thee by my lord, thou ne’er shalt see
Thy wife Paulina more.” —The Winter’s Tale, 3.3.35-37
Different Day
Posted on | December 31, 2008
Is it still news when we discover a Bush appointee who’s highly unsuitable for his job? Video at the link:
Quote, “In 2006, Bush‘s first OSHA director, a former Monsanto employee was replaced by Edwin G. Foulke Jr., a South Carolina lawyer and former Bush fundraiser who spent years defending companies cited by OSHA for safety and health violations. Foulke quickly acquired a reputation inside the Labor Department as a man who literally fell asleep on the job.
Eyewitnesses said they saw him suddenly doze off at staff meetings, during teleconferences, in one-on-one briefings, at retreats involving senior deputies, on the dais at the conference, at an awards ceremony for a corporation, and during an interview with candidate for deputy regional administrator.
His top aides said they rustled papers, wore attention-getting garb, they pounded the table for emphasis or gently kicked his leg, all to keep him awake. But if these tactics failed, sometimes they just continued talking as if he were awake - ‘We‘ll be sitting there and things will fall out of his hands; people will go on talking like nothing ever happened,‘ said a career official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to a reporter.
In an interview, Foulke denied falling asleep at work, although he said he was often tired and sometimes listened with his eyes closed,” end quote.
Listening with his eyes closed? The man George Bush put in charge or keeping your workplace safe, America. Twenty-one days left - 21 days.
Twenty days, people, until the adults take charge.
Shakespearean Daily Diss
Posted on | December 31, 2008
“I never saw a vessel of like sorrow.” —The Winter’s Tale, 3.3.22
An Oral History of the Bush White House
Posted on | December 30, 2008
Vanity Fair presents a portrait of the Bush White House as arrogant, insular, irresponsible and uninterested in national or world affairs:
Jesselyn Radack, ethics adviser at the Department of Justice: I was called with the specific question of whether or not the F.B.I. on the ground could interrogate [American Taliban John W. Lindh] without counsel. And I had been told unambiguously that Lindh’s parents had retained counsel for him. I gave that advice on a Friday, and the same attorney at Justice who inquired called back on Monday and said essentially, Oops, they did it anyway. They interrogated him anyway. What should we do now? My office was there to help correct mistakes. And I said, Well, this is an unethical interrogation, so you should seal it off and use it only for intelligence-gathering purposes or national security, but not for criminal prosecution.
A few weeks later, Attorney General Ashcroft held one of his dramatic press conferences, in which he announced a complaint being filed against Lindh. He was asked if Lindh had been permitted counsel. And he said, in effect, To our knowledge, the subject has not requested counsel. That was just completely false. About two weeks after that he held another press conference, because this was the first high-profile terrorism prosecution after 9/11. And in that press conference he was asked again about Lindh’s rights, and he said that Lindh’s rights had been carefully, scrupulously guarded, which, again, was contrary to the facts, and contrary to the picture that was circulating around the world of Lindh blindfolded, gagged, naked, bound to a board.
Joschka Fischer, German foreign minister and vice-chancellor: I was invited to a conference in Saudi Arabia on Iraq, and a Saudi said to me, Look, Mr. Fischer, when President Bush wants to visit Baghdad, it’s a state secret, and he has to enter the country in the middle of the night and through the back door. When President Ahmadinejad wants to visit Baghdad, it’s announced two weeks beforehand or three weeks. He arrives in the brightest sunshine and travels in an open car through a cheering crowd to downtown Baghdad. Now, tell me, Mr. Fischer, who is running the country?
Inauguration Day can’t come too soon.
Shakespearean Daily Diss
Posted on | December 30, 2008
“I am glad at heart
To be so rid o’ the business.“ —The Winter’s Tale, 3.3.16-17
Shakespearean Daily Diss
Posted on | December 29, 2008
“We have landed in ill time: the skies look grimly
And threaten present blusters. In my conscience,
The heavens with that we have in hand are angry
And frown upon ’s.“ —The Winter’s Tale, 3.3.3-6
Shakespearean Daily Diss
Posted on | December 26, 2008
“What studied torments, tyrant, hast for me?
What wheels? racks? fires? What flaying? or what boiling
In leads, or oils?” —The Winter’s Tale, 3.2.177-79
