zonewombat | another polictical comment, this one for the eggheads

From my e-mail:

I'm teaching Hamlet, and today we worked with Hamlet's soliloquy about Fortinbrass' attack upon --- in the Norwegian's captain's words -- the "little patch of ground/That hath in it no profit but the name./To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it...."

Hamlet's ironic words about Fortinbrass and his war hit the mark:

....Examples gross as earth exhort me.
Witness this army of such mass and charge,
Led by a delicate and tender prince,
Whose spirit, with divine ambition puffed,
Makes mouths at the invisible event,
Exposing what is mortal and unsure
To all that fortune, death, and danger dare,
Even for an eggshell. Rightly to be great
Is not to stir without great argument,
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
When honor's at the stake....

I'm not sure I would call Dubya "delicate and tender" but he is a prince "Whose spirit [is] with divine ambition puffed."