Mark Twain died 100 years ago today

[thefactor]

“All generalizations are false, including this one.” -MT

[a fool in paradise]

What do you think he’d make of our current House, Senate and Oval Office occupants?

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain

[Larry Lucido]

That rumor has been exaggerated.

[jessduntno]

My boys and I are going to see Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain sometime in the nest couple of weeks. We had tickets that were canceled because of the death of his lovely and talented wife. Twain was an American original.

[JennysCool]

In with the comet, out with the comet ...

A once-in-a-millennium man.

Thanks for the reminder, Borges.

[bamahead]

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
— Mark Twain

[Non-Sequitur]

What do you think he’d make of our current House, Senate and Oval Office occupants?

"All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity."

- and -

"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress."

[CPOSharky]

He is alive and well on “River World.”

[Borges]

Twain became pretty politically outspoken in the last decade of his life, notably in his opoosition to the American actions in the Philipines. He is sort of the pioneer of celebrities speaking out on political matters.

[Tanniker Smith]

I used to think that Carter and Holbrook were an odd couple, but then I didn’t realize just how old Carter was back in those “Designing Women” days.

[antceecee]

"To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals." - Mark Twain's Autobiography

"...when you are in politics you are in a wasp's nest with a short shirt-tail, as the saying is." - "The Chronicle of Young Satan"

"I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's." - Mark Twain in Eruption

[definitelynotaliberal]

“America has no native criminal class save Congress.”

[VRW Conspirator]

bump

[definitelynotaliberal]

Thank you for posting this. The man and his literature have meant so much to me in my transition from liberal to conservative.

[green pastures]

Halley Came to Jackson

(Mary-Chapin Carpenter)

Late one night when the wind was still
Daddy brought the baby to the windowsill
To see a bit of heaven shoot across the sky
The one and only time Daddy saw it fly.


It came from the East just as bright as a torch
The neighbors had a party on their porch
Daddy rocked the baby, Mother said "Amen"
When Halley came to visit in 1910.


Now back then Jackson was a real small town
And it's not every night a comet comes around
It was almost 80 years since its last time thru
So I bet your mother would have said "Amen" too.


As its tail stretched out like a stardust streak
The papers wrote about it every day for a week
It wondered where it's going and where it's been
When Halley came to Jackson in 1910.


Daddy told the baby sleeping in his arms
To dream a little dream of the comet's charms
And he made a little wish as she slept so sound
In 1986 that old wish came round.


It came from the East just as bright as a torch
She saw it in the sky from her Daddy's porch
It was heavenly sent as it was back then
When Halley came to Jackson in 1910.


Late one night when the wind was still. . .

[definitelynotaliberal]

Oops, I quoted him incorrectly. I will memorize it correctly.

[stefanbatory]

ping!

[a fool in paradise]

In a book on beatniks (with a socialist bent) the writer was trying to make a case for Mark Twain supporting labor causes.