Shakespeare Anagram: Richard II
From Richard II: Four lagging winters and four wanton springs End in a word: such is the breath of kings. Shift around the letters, and it becomes: We learn to get through this sordid windbag in...
View ArticleShakespeare Anagram: Macbeth
Lacking the necessary votes, the Republicans have pulled their health care bill from the House floor. It’s hard to tell what the future will bring, but Paul Ryan seems to be backing off for now. From...
View ArticleShakespeare Anagram: As You Like It
Happy April Fools’ Day! This week’s anagram comes from Touchstone, one of Shakespeare’s wittiest fools. From As You Like It: Why, thou sayest well. I do now remember a saying, ‘The fool doth think he...
View ArticleSean Spicer Does Shakespeare
In honor of Shakespeare’s birthday, I am pleased to share with you an out-take from one of his most popular histories, King Richard III. Historians remember that Richard had a press secretary named...
View ArticleShakespeare Anagram: Henry IV, Part Two
President Trump says he “thought it would be easier.” Who knew? From Henry IV, Part Two: Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. Shift around the letters, and it becomes: He wants a recount. Yeah,...
View ArticleShakespeare Anagram: Twelfth Night
From Twelfth Night: If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. Shift around the letters, and it becomes: Idiocy politics: FBI bloop? A sentence for a laugh? A...
View ArticleShakespeare Anagram: Richard III
From Richard III: And is it thus? Repays he my deep service With such contempt? Made I him king for this? Shift around the letters, and it becomes: Trump’s mad they think the timing which he fired...
View ArticleShakespeare Anagram: Henry VI, Part Two
The hits just keep on coming this week, but I suppose the top story is President Trump leaking classified information to the Russians in a meeting held in the Oval Office. From Henry VI, Part Two: This...
View ArticleShakespeare Anagram: Richard III
There’s a lot going on this week, but the story that stands out most for me is Montana Republican Greg Gianforte being elected to the United States House of Representatives a day after witnesses...
View ArticleShakespeare Anagram: Troilus and Cressida
This week, President Trump announced that he is withdrawing us from the Paris Climate Accord. Now, in all likelihood, Trump is using this as a starting position for a renegotiation. That doesn’t mean...
View ArticleShakespeare Anagram: Henry VI, Part Three
This week, former FBI director James Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee. I’m not here to provide an analysis of that testimony. The current level of discourse is so far beyond...
View ArticleShakespeare Anagram: Julius Caesar
The NRA put out a frightening new ad this week: From Julius Caesar: Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up To such a sudden flood of mutiny. Shift around the letters, and it becomes: NRA’s...
View ArticleShakespeare Anagram: Much Ado about Nothing
Well, so much for politics stopping at the water’s edge. Speaking in Warsaw, while on his way the G20 summit in Hamburg, President Trump was asked about Russian hacking, and he used the opportunity to...
View ArticleShakespeare Anagram: Henry V
After months and months of indignant denials, the Trump administration is finally being made to confront hard evidence of their campaign’s collusion with the Russians. To be clear, there’s not any...
View ArticleShakespeare Anagram: Macbeth
From Macbeth: Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in love; now does he feel his title Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe Upon a dwarfish thief. Shift around the letters, and it...
View ArticleShakespeare Anagram: The Merry Wives of Windsor
This week, President Trump was caught lying about receiving phone calls from the leaders of Mexico and of the Boy Scouts, both to pay him compliments they would be unlikely to deliver. And while this...
View ArticleShakespeare Anagram: The Taming of the Shrew
From The Taming of the Shrew: And awful rule and right supremacy Shift around the letters, and it becomes: Uh… Trump defends an ugly racial war? Here is the video of Tuesday’s press conference. I...
View ArticleShakespeare Anagram: Twelfth Night
Let’s call it the strange case of Dr. Jekyll and President Hyde. It all started last weekend, when a coalition of white supremacist organizations staged a demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia....
View ArticleShakespeare Anagram: Twelfth Night
What the great ones tweet, the less will anagram of. From Twelfth Night: Why, thou sayest well. I do now remember a saying, “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a...
View ArticleShakespeare Anagram: Sir Thomas More
From Sir Thomas More: Nay, it has infected it with the palsey; for these bastards of dung, as you know they grow in dung, have infected us, and it is our infection will make the city shake, which...
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