Blame Democracy!

And more to the point: by blaming democracy, the people who have gotten everything wrong are letting themselves off the hook. The elites on both sides of the Atlantic have messed up catastrophically, and need to face that fact. More

Oh noes, not Hamlet!

It ain't only the raft, it's "To be or not to be" via OSC

HAMLET'S FATHER
Orson Scott Card
Subterranean ($35)
by William Alexander

Orson Scott Card has rewritten Hamlet. The back of this slim novella boasts that once we have read this "revelatory version of the Hamlet story, Shakespeare's play will be much more fun to watch—because now you'll know what's really going on." The author has previously updated other Shakespearean plays, rendering them more intelligible to modern audiences while supposedly retaining the “flavor” of the originals.

Shamelessly Stolen from james_nicoll