Saturday Shakespeare

Faith, as you say, there's small choice in rotten apples.

The Taming of the Shrew 1.1.131

So was it Judas or National Geographic?

A new article in The Chronicle of Higher Education sums up the controversy of the Gospel of Judas as a bungled translation provoked and perpetuated by The National Geographic Society in a drive to maximize its revenue.

Is an emphasis on scholarship over popular spectacle too much to ask?

Well, yes apparently.

Saturday Shakespeare

I prithee, vent thy folly somewhere else. Thou know'st not me.

Twelfth Night 4.1.8

Nerds

As a self-identified nerd, I immediately noticed the title "The Alpha Geeks" on the David Brooks
op-ed piece in The New York Times. In my experience, nerd and geek tend to be rough synonyms, and Brooks reverses the definitions I'm used to. Still, he helped me feel good on a rough day: the last day of school where I teach.

Thank you, Mr. Brooks.

In one fell swoop

I found this ad in one of my inboxes this morning.







If I ever need to fell myself, I'll have a safe option.

How nice.

Saturday Shakespeare

Well said. That was laid on with a trowel.

As You Like It 1.2.86

It's about time someone said it

George W. Bush is the Percy Bysshe Shelley of educational romantics

Read the article here: NCLB.

Saturday Shakespeare

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.

The Merchant of Venice 1.2.11-12

Degree paper

Master likes degree paper.

Me likes master.

Me scampers with glee.

Tee hee.