The handwashing scene, “All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand…” is Act 5 Scene 1 of MacBeth. It may come up in conversation this week, if it hasn’t already. –
Frank Schaefer, author of “Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back” has a great piece about the “counterintuitive contradictions” of the tea partiers bringing down their movement: Thank God For Sarah Palin’s Picks! (Good …