Adam Magazine on the Crazy Years

Looting, killing and raping -- by twisting their words they call it "empire"; and wherever they have created a wilderness they call it "peace" -- Tacitus

Wednesday, October 2

Football and Shakespeare -- Two of my favorite things

ESPN.com - Page2 - Always read the fine print
So Donovan McNabb signed a "12-year, $115 million contract." TMQ has two observations. First, wasn't "McNabb" a minor character in Hamlet?

Page: Rosencranz, Gildenstern and McNabb are here to see you, sire.

Claudius: Privily bring them unto me, that I may examine their contracts.

Later, upon the parapet:

Hamlet How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, seem to me all the uses of this world. Fie on it, ah, fie! 'Tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature possess it merely.

McNabb Bunch right! Twenty-six strong! Blue! Hut one! Hut two!

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