Tag Archives: Aesop

Warning to Fans of Authoritarianism

By Robin Bates | Published: June 6, 2023

Applying “The Frogs Who Wished for a King” to the U.S., Biden is King Log and Trump King Crane.

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Trump as Aesop’s Frog

By Robin Bates | Published: August 10, 2020

Aesop’s fable of the frog and the ox, versified by La Fontaine and Scott Bates, applies only too well to Donald Trump.

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Analyzing Loughner’s Booklist

By Robin Bates | Published: January 10, 2011

Like much of America, I am still in a state of shock over Saturday’s shooting of a Congresswoman, a judge, and 16 others. Like many I wonder if this was an example of a disturbed mind encountering the inflamed political rhetoric that has come to characterize American political discourse. (Add Arizona’s permissive gun laws into […]

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