Monday, March 8, 2004

On Authorship, a Grinch and Forward-Thinking Just in time for the Seusscentennial, my e-mail brought a poem titled, "The Grinch Revisited (with thanks to Dr. Seuss)." Maybe you're seen it. It begins like this... The Whos down in Whoville liked this country a lot, But the Grinch in the White House most certainly did not. He didn't arrive there by the will of the Whos, But stole the election that he really did lose. Vowed to "rule from the middle," then installed his regime. (Did this really happen or is it just a bad dream?) Like so much "have you seen this..." or "I heard a good one..." e-mail, the copy I received didn't say who wrote the original. Always looking for new ways to eat up a few minutes online, I decided to find out... The result was an extended essay on e-mail forwarding, authorship, Google, liberalism and (by implication) Attention Deficit Disorder. OK, so I got carried away, but there are a few good links. If you're more interested in just reading the whole poem, here it is. Otherwise, here's my longer version of this story, which I wish I'd titled Grinch brings an epiphany, as odd as that might sound so far from Christmas. At least a green Grinch would be the right color for St. Patrick's Day. 12:57:28 PM    comment []

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