To clarify: the title is excerpted from Act 1 of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. The full quote goes: "Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile; So ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes." It's a warning against spending too much of your life in scholarly pursuits.
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
Monkey Business
So the New York Post runs a cartoon referencing the Stimulus Bill and the rampaging chimpanzee and the race hustlers cry "Racism". This is standard lefty horse hockey. As some commentators have written, invoking Freud's observations about cigars: "sometimes a monkey is just a monkey". I might also point out that over the past eight years several cartoonists on the left have portrayed President Bush as an ape.
Read about it here.