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Now We shall See...
Jan. 5th, 2011 11:27 pmSigh. Yet another halfwit has popped up to produce a bowdlerized version of "Huck Finn". O, Despair that tires the world!
People were doing this when I was in high school, and they'll prolly keep on doing it after I'm dead. What on earth is the point of making literature "accessible" if in the process you obscure the actual point of the story?
It's a great shame Twain's dead, as fools like these were pretty much grist for his mill.
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Tomorrow, the House will read the Constitution aloud on the floor. I'm honestly kind of horrified that that's never been done before. It seems like the sort of thing that ought to start a session.
They're apparently taking turns by order of precedence. There's a small but non-zero chance that Pelosi will burst into sulphurous flames when she touches the document. I hope someone from the Tea Party gets to read the Tenth Amendment, although they're pretty junior to get that, I think.
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Yes, we are...
People were doing this when I was in high school, and they'll prolly keep on doing it after I'm dead. What on earth is the point of making literature "accessible" if in the process you obscure the actual point of the story?
It's a great shame Twain's dead, as fools like these were pretty much grist for his mill.
*****
Tomorrow, the House will read the Constitution aloud on the floor. I'm honestly kind of horrified that that's never been done before. It seems like the sort of thing that ought to start a session.
They're apparently taking turns by order of precedence. There's a small but non-zero chance that Pelosi will burst into sulphurous flames when she touches the document. I hope someone from the Tea Party gets to read the Tenth Amendment, although they're pretty junior to get that, I think.
*****
Yes, we are...
