For Auld Lang Syne

I could have started the new year without getting all achey again and getting sick. That would have been okay.

However, we got to watch My Man Godfrey. It tickles me just how socialist that film is, especially for 1939.

Making Twain less dangerous

Apparently, a new edition of Huckleberry Finn is being released, without that uncomfortable N word, or the I word.

Unsurprisingly, there are already those who are yelling “Censorship!” as well as others with thesauruses yelling “Bowdlerization!” and “Comstockery!”

Or, as Will Shetterly puts it, Huckleberry Finn is about a white boy learning what lies under words like "nigger" and "injun". Take those words away, and you gut its profoundly antiracist meaning.