“Leavitt the Liar Takes Her Leave”

Richard III, Duke of Gloucester, from Shakepeare’s Henry VI, Part III (Act III, Scene 2): “Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile,And cry ‘Content’ to that which grieves my heart,And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,And frame my face to all occasions.I’ll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall;I’ll slay more gazers thanContinue reading ““Leavitt the Liar Takes Her Leave””

“Let your Jesus-freak flag fly!”

And Jesus said to his disciples, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross, and have made many small banners that bear my name to be dispersed throughout the villages and towns of the land. All the better if you collect a fewContinue reading ““Let your Jesus-freak flag fly!””

Worth repeating, early and often…

“The larger the mob, the harder the test. In small areas, before small electorates, a first-rate man occasionally fights his way through, carrying even the mob with him by force of his personality. But when the field is nationwide, and the fight must be waged chiefly at second and third hand, and the force ofContinue reading “Worth repeating, early and often…”