I may be old enough to read through your piece and chuckle.  No, not old
enough to have read Twain's first edition.  I know Twain's is much longer,
and he was Mark Twain. I've written some locally relevant satire,  but I
only aspired to reflect James Thurber.  Perhaps yours could use a lighter
hand.

Art Tegger

On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 4:22 PM Martha Sherwood <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> 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
>