Friday, December 7, 2012

Vere-ing Off Course?

Despite my initial aversion to the movie, I rented "Anonymous" and enjoyed it. It makes Elizabeth I into a ninny and Shakespeare into a fool, but it's fun. That said, the Oxford position has no legs to stand on; like most conspiracy theories, it's evidenced by a *lack* of evidence, by unproven assertions that depend on a string of other unproven assertions, pieced together like a Rube Goldberg machine. Sure, it's possible DeVere authored "Shakespeare," just as it's possible God created a universe that only *appears,* to all objective persons, billions of years old. Possible but illogical. Still, I commend "Anonymous" as fair entertainment and the Oxford debate as fun mental floss.