Tag Archives: Jean de la Fontaine

Fox News and Its Crow(vid) Victims

By Robin Bates | Published: October 7, 2021

La Fontaine’s “The Fox and the Crow” captures how Fox News is bilking its viewers.

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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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Cinderella vs. Jane Eyre in Soccer Final

By Robin Bates | Published: July 16, 2011

In tomorrow’s World Cup finals, Japan is Cinderella going up against America’s Jane Eyre.

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