Haven't any of you read Shakespeare?

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I have to laugh at the criticisms expressed against John McCain for saying "You do not have to be afraid of a President Obama". Can't you understand the suggestion? Have none of you read Othello? "Beware, my lord, of jealousy -" which nobody had thus far so much as mentioned. Or Julius Caesar? "For so are they all - all honourable men." John McCain is smarter than you think; and he is fighting meaner than you can imagine.

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At my daughter's otherwise elite engineering/marine/naval Science high school, and at all others high schools in our district, Senior Year English Lit has just been scrapped in favor of modern, 'vocationally relevant' literature. Which means all kids can now leave high school with only Romeo & Juliet to represent Shakespeare and never having even heard the names of Chaucer, Beowulf, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, etc, etc.

We have become a people without a past.