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 >