WESTMORELAND. O that we now had here 
    But one ten thousand of those men in England 
    That do no work to-day! 
  
KING. What's he that wishes so? 
    My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin; 
    If we are mark'd to die, we are enow 

   To do our country loss; and if to live, 

    The fewer men, the greater share of honour. 
    God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more. 
    By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, 
    Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; 
    It yearns me not if men my garments wear; 
    Such outward things dwell not in my desires. 
    But if it be a sin to covet honour, 
    I am the most offending soul alive. 
    No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England. 
    God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour 
    As one man more methinks would share from me 
    For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more! 
    Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, 
    That he which hath no stomach to this fight, 
    Let him depart; his passport shall be made, 
    And crowns for convoy put into his purse; 
    We would not die in that man's company 
    That fears his fellowship to die with us. 
    This day is call'd the feast of Crispian. 
    He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, 
    Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd, 
    And rouse him at the name of Crispian. 
    He that shall live this day, and see old age, 
    Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, 
    And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian.' 
    Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, 
    And say 'These wounds I had on Crispian's day.' 
    Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,

(ME*)

Actually this might be taken in part from a dialogue between LBJ and General Westmorland, but what the heck! I mean I thought why not take this piece of history and make it into a play?

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), facing multiple allegations of plagiarism, told the New York Times in an interview Tuesday that his demanding schedule is partially to blame for him signing off on poorly vetted or sourced speeches and op-eds. ..

“Things are done quickly and in a hurry, and sometimes I get some things sent to me while giving a speech — I’m looking down at my phone saying ‘read this for approval in 20 minutes,'” he added. “We write something every week for The Washington Times, and I literally am riding around in a car in between things trying to figure out if I can approve it."

I do things quickly at times. I mean I have to keep washing my kitchen counter and attempt to sweep the kitchen floor once a month and vaccuum the rug and keep the toilet from overflowing and get outside and feed the pigeons and ducks and...

I mean, I get busy.

But I read and get ideas and then I write them down after a cocktail or two...

Vladeck: I disagree with that. If a tree falls in the forest, it makes a noise whether you're there to see it or not.

I mean, everyone makes mistakes and this Vladeck guy (Russian Mafia?) is talking about seeing noises? WTF?

According to Politico, Paul told a crowd of Cuccinelli supporters that “I’ve been working on the assumption that nullification is going to come. It’s going to be a de facto nullification. It’s ugly, but pretty soon things are going to get so bad that we’re just going to ignore the feds and live our own lives in our own states."

HOUSTON HOMELESS MAN

The term “class struggle” may sound arcane to 21st century ears, but that struggle is at play everywhere in society. Take the typical workplace dispute, such as the recent rash of fast-food worker protests: At root is the contradiction between the interest of the employer to make the workday longer, wages lower and the pace of work quicker and the interest of workers to shorten the workday, increase wages and slow down the pace of work. This conflict has become increasingly one-sided, with so-called “right-to-work” laws and the rise of precarious labor all benefiting owners and hurting workers.

Now this guy seems more pissed off at the present stage of things in this country than me and Ramona for chrissakes!

Thomas Jefferson directly alluded to that fear in the initial draft of the Declaration of Independence in the summer of 1776. In his list of grievances against the British, Jefferson, a Virginian slave-owner, included the crime of “exciting those very people”—slaves—“to rise in arms among us.” The outrage that Jefferson and many like him expressed at the arming of slaves has led historians like Woody Holton to argue that what slaves did at Hampton “indirectly helped motivate white Virginians to declare independence from Britain."

I have no idea, really, why I include this item in this essay but I was struck by how the Brits had attempted to use Slaves in their military attack on the Colonists; foreshadowing the actions of Lincoln some four score and seven years (or so) following the Revolutionary War. (I am thinking of copyrighting the four score idea but I have to check Wiki first!

A bright spot in the recent spate of body blows to reproductive rights: the Supreme Court has affirmed the unconstitutionality of Oklahoma’s absolute ban on medication abortion, dismissing the state’s appeal of the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling striking down the law and ending a long legal battle over women’s access to medication abortion and the non-surgical treatment of ectopic pregnancies in the state.

See? All we are attempting to do is reproduce!

PARANORMAL RADIO HOST MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARS.

(SEE? RES IPSA LOQUITOR! I kind of made that Latin clause up?)

PS*

After speaking to Kenneth Branagh, I guess I did not write that poem I included at the top. I had been reading this Shakespeare guy and I had been researching the relationship between LBJ and General Westmoreland and I guess I got carried away!)

That is why it is always of import to check Wiki.