There’s a popular misconception that in Romeo and Juliet, when Juliet asks, “O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?”, she’s wondering where he is. “Wherefore” means “why”, not “where”.
In other words, she’s saying, “Of all the guys I could’ve fallen in love with, why did it have to be Romeo?”
Hope this sets things straight.
Politico has an article, compiled from advice from prominent Republicans, on how to save the GOP, if not from its current implosion, then at least in the long run:
For those who’ve somehow managed to miss it, The Secret is a bit of recent woo that says that if you just wish hard enough, you can create a pony that farts rainbows.
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According to the Wall Street Journal, the Alliance Defense Fund, a nonprofit organization in Arizona, is unhappy about the IRS rules saying that churches can’t endorse political candidates. They’re asking preachers to engage in acts of civil disobedience by preaching about politics. Then, the plan is to get sued and have the IRS rule declared unconstitutional, on the grounds that churches have the right to free speech, and the government shouldn’t be telling them what they can and can’t say.
Back in High School, when I got interested in computers, I naturally started out writing toy programs: four-function calculators, Hanoi towers, and so forth. And I looked up to the people who wrote tools like compilers and operating systems: they were demigods who bestrode the earth like colossi. The day when my friend and I learned how to make operating system calls and get the name of the current user so that our program could greet him by name, it was as if we had learned to tap into some source of deep magic bestowed upon us mere mortals by the benevolent gods of the data center.