President Biden has expunged the legality of biological women in an executive order that re-defines the legal category of “woman” to include whoever presents themselves to the world as a woman. At least the British pop singer Harry Styles, when he wore a dress designed by Gucci for a Vogue photo shoot, knew he was a man having a little fun. But when the question is, who wore it better? – the answer is Shakespeare. It’s not only women who cross-dress in Shakespeare; there are at least two instances of …

‘There is no woman’s gown big enough’: Cross-Dressing, Falstaff, and Biden’s Canceling of Women Read More »

I just learned, as so many of you have, of the death of Rush Limbaugh. I don’t need to underscore what a great loss this is. We each have our own story of how we learned about his show, which for many of us was a revelation, and I will quickly tell mine. I was living in Japan in the early 1990s, a conservative isolated in my views both by geography, and by a media landscape that was a left-wing monoculture. But then I learned that the U.S. Military radio …

‘Fear no more the heat o’ the sun’: A Eulogy for Rush Limbaugh – Rest in Peace Read More »

How shall a man proceed, when he must begin to do so without the aid of his father? That was Hamlet’s challenge, and now it it ours. We have learned that our orange-haired political father was betrayed when, sleeping in his orchard in Florida after four years of faithful service to the nation, the king’s brother Claudius, that is, the democrat party and quite a few republicans, rigged the electoral process to thwart his re-election, and then, not content with that foul achievement, assembled a few extra nails for their …

‘If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not.’: For the Left, Trump is now King Hamlet’s Ghost Read More »

America needs two healthy political parties to maintain itself, and we haven’t been in that condition since perhaps JFK. If you want to argue that the democrat party retained some semblance of love of the country it periodically governed until Carter or perhaps Clinton, be my guest; in any case, that semblance is now clearly gone. The American ship of state is listing. Mom and dad are fighting. Yin and Yang are out of balance. Shakespeare covers exactly this situation with the falling out that occurs between Oberon and Titania …

‘Ill met by moonlight’: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Titania, and Our Current Civil Discord Read More »

In a darkened den of thieves, democrat party operatives, aided by more than a few key corrupt republicans, dream of dividing a valiant but gullible nation, portrayed by Count Claudio, from its stalwart, fair-haired leader, President Trump, portrayed a bit incongruously by the blushing maiden Hero.  It may be a heavy lift to equate President Trump with the virginal maiden in Much Ado About Nothing, but if the wedding dress fits, we should wear it. Today’s bard’s eye view of the present-day mayhem is an ambitious one, so buckle up… …

Trump’s Trumped-up charges and Hero’s slander in Much Ado About Nothing Read More »