It occurred to me that the following might afford some amusement to a few
Mark Twain fans and might possibly be read as a commentary on interpreting
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court as an endorsement of
Connecticut Yankee values. I wrote it as a commentary on a Senate Race in
Oregon between Jeff Merkeley, incumbent, overwhelming favorite, and, a dyed
in the wool liberal Democrat, and a cynical Libertarian who is running his
campaign as satire. It follows the form of a common type of social media
post.

Anyone who suggests that mandatory employer paid health insurance should
NOT be required to cover abortion services is an enemy of women and
supports unwarranted, unconstitutional  interference in the separation of
church and state, black lives matter unless they are in other countries it
is convenient to bomb, it is mean-spirited to scrutinize tax bills passed
with the claim that they will equalize a tax structure in order to examine
what their actual effect has been, and racist to boot if the legislation in
question dates from the Obama administration, student loans have been a
great boon to the American working class and should be expanded,  you
absolutely must wear a face mask in public at all times to prevent
spreading Covid-19 to vulnerable populations, doubting science as currently
reported in the popular press is a sign of ignorance and prejudice,
reducing carbon emissions in America by rewarding companies that export
manufacturing jobs overseas where standards are lower helps reduce global
warming, and instituting term limits for public office should be expanded
as a way to reduce corruption and make legislators more receptive to the
needs of their constituents. Moreover, Jeff Merkely is collaborating with
perverted space aliens to make Medford the child prostitution capital of
America. There is at least one absurd and patently untrue statement in this
paragraph; let’s see how many people will read through to the end to find
it.

Martha Sherwood

Internationally recognized expert on fossil fungus