Relating to Darleen’s post, yesterday, from Jake Tapper.
CAESAR
Let me have men about me that are fat;
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o’ nights:
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
ANTONY
Fear him not, Caesar; he’s not dangerous;
He is a noble Roman and well given.
CAESAR
Also, he is swarthy and has an odd name.
Wherefore sent him us Central Casting?
JC I.ii.
Comment by Sdferr on 8/6 @ 9:15 am #
“…Your blindness to subtle racism is really pathetic. …”
Commenter JerfyT addressing Jake Tapper
Comment by Cerus UU on 8/6 @ 9:16 am #
Thou ask’d for a “President Allstate” type…
Comment by Barrett Brown on 8/6 @ 9:27 am #
Obama: “I strike quickly, being moved.”
Clinton: “But thou art not quickly moved to strike.”
Obama: “A dog of the house of Bush moves me.”
Comment by BJTexs on 8/6 @ 9:54 am #
When is thy suggestion wrought with peril? Whilst thy suggest thy intention to twist, nay, wring thy meaning from ether and fume? It is thy regal vision of thyself that slays thy sense of meaning.
Thou art cuckolded by thine own visage, me thinks.
Comment by Dan Collins on 8/6 @ 9:57 am #
At the least he is who hath horns put upon me a handsome bastard, BJ.
Comment by BJTexs on 8/6 @ 10:02 am #
I really fell in love with the word “thy” in that thing, didn’t I?
That last was directed at cleo, BTW. Your visage is da bomb.
Comment by Sdferr on 8/6 @ 10:06 am #
Mightn’t that be “thine” intention to twist? and perhaps “suggesteth” just prior?
Comment by BJTexs on 8/6 @ 10:13 am #
Definition of irony: A literary critic at PW.
Perchance if thou werst to receiveth a suggestion to crammeth thy head uppeth thine ass? Forsooth? :-)
Comment by Dan Collins on 8/6 @ 10:14 am #
Technically, that’s called “encrambment.”
Comment by Sdferr on 8/6 @ 10:14 am #
Check.
You don’t take to jokes.
Double check.
Comment by McGehee on 8/6 @ 10:17 am #
What do you get when you cross a crab with a woolly mammoth?
I’ll take “Jokes Based on Elizabethan English” for $800, BJ.
Comment by Minister Jack X Klompus Africa-Muhammad Ali Shabazz on 8/6 @ 10:27 am #
“Oh, princess fair, willth thou grant thy dainty hoof in marriage?”
Comment by Barrett Brown on 8/6 @ 10:35 am #
“Ha, ha, ha, ha! That’s great! I can’t remember when I’ve heard a funnier anecdote! Now *you* tell one!”
Comment by serr8d on 8/6 @ 10:39 am #
“Word up, son”
Comment by BJTexs on 8/6 @ 10:49 am #
Sdferr: All in fun, none of it serious, hope the smiley thing was a clue.
McGehee: I think I need to retire from Elizabethan English, to save the English. And senses of humor everywhere!
Comment by Sdferr on 8/6 @ 11:19 am #
No es problema, BJ, f’norring kein littery ckritick’s asspirattions doon heyah. Ner spreckkking duh spansh nider fer dat madder. (Jes’tee’tickulatin’ wildey, so.)
Comment by SevenEleventy on 8/6 @ 11:26 am #
The “Malachi Crunch”! Hahahahaha! Fucking hysterical. How desperate do you have to be to prove a point by referencing a “Happy Days” episode?
Look out perfesser caricature, Mr. Noah is moving in on your “incoherence” territory.
BTW, Anson Williams was teh gay. Sorry Donny Most!
Comment by Salt Lick on 8/6 @ 12:43 pm #
“…Your blindness to subtle racism is really pathetic. …â€Â
One of the things I noticed while working in academia was how many white liberals fear that they are racist. Many haven’t known too many people of color and feel awkward around them. Others see blacks not as people, but only as blacks, “the other,” and so they overcompensate, sometimes creating bizarre episode like this one (or “And how was your Kwaanza?!” — said to a startled Kenyan exchange student who only knew “kwaanza” as the swahili word for “first”), but always adopting the most extreme anti-racist stance in hopes of creating enough smoke to hide, even from themselves, the terrible suspicion of what they can’t escape inside themselves.
Comment by Dan Collins on 8/6 @ 12:53 pm #
Tim Noah is now No, Timmah!
Comment by BJTexs on 8/6 @ 12:59 pm #
Salt Lick: My wife and I were married by a Baptist minster and professor, an old family friend and one of the kindest, gentlest people I knew. He and his lovely wife were also very liberal (he was a bit shocked when we joined a “conservative” PCUSA church.) One day, many years ago, we were having a discussion about race relations. He proceeded to tell me about a series of seminars that he hosted at his church on “racism as reality” or some such. The single most important thing he got out of the eight seminars was that all white people are racist in their hearts and if we can’t find it, we are not looking hard enough.
I actually chuckled at the joke and then looked up into his eyes and realized that he was dead serious. He went on describing the process of “stripping away the layers of bias denial” (yep, “bias denial”) to come to his own epiphany of his inherent racism.
I was everlastingly gobsmacked.
This gentle, Godly man who raised two pacifist children while allowing them to play war games with toy guns; this eminent scholar and teacher had just fallen hook, line and sinker for the “all white people are racist oppressors” bait and was agonizing over the “realization” of his own racial failings.
It was all I could do not the throw up. That was the point when I realized the power of victimization and it’s ability to sway and hold in thrall otherwise intelligent, thoughtful liberals.
Comment by Salt Lick on 8/6 @ 4:02 pm #
…this eminent scholar and teacher had just fallen hook, line and sinker for the “all white people are racist oppressors 
Yep, BJT, it’s kind of scary, like the person is possessed. They no longer see people, but race.
I was evil one time and asked one of these fellows the following — If you go to listen to a debate on affirmative action, and the panel consists of Clarence Thomas, Linda Chavez, Dinesh Disouza, William F. Buckley, Michelle Malkin, and Bobby Jindal, does that panel satisfy our university requirment for Diversity? His mouth dropped open as if he’d pooped in his pants and he proceeded to cogitate on it. Never did answer.
Comment by Cassius on 8/6 @ 5:57 pm #
How many times do I have to tell you?
My. Name. Is. Muhammad!
(stolen joke, for which I denounce myself)