I’ve taken the day off from the news in order to better enjoy (and digest) the traditional food orgy that we Americans look forward to during the other 364 days of the year. But a daily quotation wouldn’t be daily if I missed a day, would it? So, very briefly, here is my Thanksgiving offering to you, good readers.

Who is, or ever has been, more quotable than Shakespeare? In my estimation, no one. So he’s back for an encore performance today.

Even on a day off, world events are never far from my mind; and this year, those naturally include — in addition to the plethora of international conflicts that never seem to disappear completely — the political turmoil in my own country. So, on that subject, I would like to offer a little . . . well, I was going to say “advice”; but I’m not naive enough to think that the people for whom it’s intended would ever give it a second thought. Let’s just say, then, that this is an almost prescient word of caution from the Bard himself to the 21st-century Washington Billionaires’ Club . . . and most particularly to their exalted leader:

“Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. . . .

“O God! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times make mountains level, and the continent, weary of solid firmness, melt itself into the sea. . . .

“‘The time shall come’ — thus did he follow it — ‘The time will come that foul sin, gathering head, shall break into corruption,’ so went on, foretelling this same time’s condition and the division of our amity.”

– King Henry IV, Part Two, Act III, Scene 1

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
11/27/25

And one more time: