The Strange Case of Clarence Thomas (Part Three)

I am going to close out my coverage of Jeffrey Toobin's article on Justice Clarence Thomas with his own closing section that draws the general conclusion about Thomas and the real threat that such reactionary jurisprudence has for us, as being the judicial path of wiping out all the progress we have seen with FDR and the New Deal, herding us back to the Raw Deal of the rule of money, as though such would be the true realization of liberty in our country, as though the only faithful measure of liberty is the freedom of the wealthiest people to do as they please with their property, without regard to the social welfare of the general population.

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The Strange Case of Clarence Thomas (Part Three)

I am going to close out my coverage of Jeffrey Toobin's article on Justice Clarence Thomas with his own closing section that draws the general conclusion about Thomas and the real threat that such reactionary jurisprudence has for us, as being the judicial path of wiping out all the progress we have seen with FDR and the New Deal, herding us back to the Raw Deal of the rule of money, as though such would be the true realization of liberty in our country, as though the only faithful measure of liberty is the freedom of the wealthiest people to do as they please with their property, without regard to the social welfare of the general population.

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Hamlet (1,1) Horatio, speak to it

Barnardo begins to relate the experience with the ghost, but when you speak of the devil, the devil often appears, and so does this ghost.

_ _ _

M:
Peace, break thee off. Look where it comes again!

B:
In the same figure like the king that’s dead.

M:
Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio.

B:
Looks ‘a not like the king? Mark it, Horatio.

H:
Most like. It harrows me with fear and wonder.

[...]

H:
What art thou that usurp’st this time of night,
Together with that fair and warlike form
In which the majesty of buried Denmark
Did sometimes March? By heaven I charge thee, speak!

M:
It is offended.

B:
See, it stalks away!

-- Hamlet (1,1)

_ _ _

Every time I read this scene my mind detours into a comedy sketch, when Marcellus urges Horatio, “Thou art a scholar; speak to it Horatio.” I always imagine Horatio turning to Marcellus in some irritation and saying something like: “I must have missed that day when they taught us how to talk to ghosts.”

In any case, Horatio does not have the answer to get the ghost to unlock its mystery, as the ghost only stalks away. After Barnardo and Marcellus give Horatio some ‘I told you soes’, Horatio concedes and concludes, “In what particular thought to work I know not; But in the gross and scope of my opinion, This bodes some strange eruption to our state.” Well, Horatio is a scholar.

Hamlet (1,1) Horatio, speak to it

Barnardo begins to relate the experience with the ghost, but when you speak of the devil, the devil often appears, and so does this ghost.

_ _ _

M:
Peace, break thee off. Look where it comes again!

B:
In the same figure like the king that’s dead.

M:
Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio.

B:
Looks ‘a not like the king? Mark it, Horatio.

H:
Most like. It harrows me with fear and wonder.

[...]

H:
What art thou that usurp’st this time of night,
Together with that fair and warlike form
In which the majesty of buried Denmark
Did sometimes March? By heaven I charge thee, speak!

M:
It is offended.

B:
See, it stalks away!

-- Hamlet (1,1)

_ _ _

Every time I read this scene my mind detours into a comedy sketch, when Marcellus urges Horatio, “Thou art a scholar; speak to it Horatio.” I always imagine Horatio turning to Marcellus in some irritation and saying something like: “I must have missed that day when they taught us how to talk to ghosts.”

In any case, Horatio does not have the answer to get the ghost to unlock its mystery, as the ghost only stalks away. After Barnardo and Marcellus give Horatio some ‘I told you soes’, Horatio concedes and concludes, “In what particular thought to work I know not; But in the gross and scope of my opinion, This bodes some strange eruption to our state.” Well, Horatio is a scholar.