Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Avon Calling

Here's an article about how Justice Stevens believes Edward de Vere, the earl of Oxford, wrote the plays attributed to William Shakespeare. Just as surprising, Justice Scalia agrees.

It creeps me out to know that (at least) two of the nine people sitting on the Supreme Court support this crackpot theory.

Makes me hope they stick to the law and never use any outside knowledge to help them decide a case.

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

At least they don't buy crackpot theories like the unitary executive.

6:10 AM, April 21, 2009  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think that's supposed to be clever.

8:28 AM, April 21, 2009  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"It was only necessary for him to know that something could be done, and he could do it without looking to see how other people did it. He didn't have very many books, and he didn't take notes. Of course, his mind was completely different from all of his contemporaries."

That's an academic describing Stephen Hawking. Do people question his work because he doesn't have books or take notes, or because he doesn't look like what we think a theoretical physicist should look like? Genius is genius, folks. Deal with it. If the Oxfordians come up with something better than "he didn't leave any books in his will" I'll pay more attention. Until then, they all need to STFU.

12:44 PM, April 21, 2009  

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