Letter to Imagination Library Graduates

Dolly Parton’s touching final message to children is going viral following her death at 80.

The note is included with the last book children receive from her Imagination Library when they turn five, encouraging them to keep reading, dream big, learn everything they can and care… pic.twitter.com/LzAgUR0dPo

— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 31, 2026

What a beautiful message!

Salman Rushdie Outlives Ayatollahs

It’s cool that Salman Rushdie has outlived 2 Ayatollahs. pic.twitter.com/f39JJ3nFpQ

— Carl (@HistoryBoomer) March 1, 2026

Arthur Conan Doyle - 166

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE - born 166yrs ago today - talks in 1929 about what inspired him to write the Sherlock Holmes stories.

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— Michael Warburton (@TheMonologist) May 22, 2025

Amazing film.

Wicked - 'Every Day In the Emerald City Is a Pride Parade'

Ariana Grande doesn't know her linguistic history: when Baum wrote Oz "queer" meant "strange or peculiar," not homosexual.

Also when did eccentric fashion become only the purview of homosexuality? Absurd. pic.twitter.com/ZIdQHDswAh

— Libby Emmons (@libbyemmons) November 25, 2024

Sad.

Biden: 'DON'T'

"Don't" pic.twitter.com/4DSFRHbSYt

— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) April 16, 2024

The scarecrow in search of a brain in The Wizard of Oz was dramatically more intelligent and wise than Biden. He was stronger and more compassionate. The scarecrow showed concern for others.

In short, I would rather have the scarecrow in the Oval Office than Biden.

'Diary of Anne Frank' Removed By Ontario School Board

An Ontario school board has removed all books published in 2008 or earlier from libraries in the name of "equity"https://t.co/yfhhBMyzOy

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) September 14, 2023

Western civilization is under attack.

Sherlock Holmes Day - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Birthday

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on this day in 1859.

Remembering author, physician and spiritualist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, born today in 1859 and seen here discussing his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes, in a frank and funny interview from 1927. pic.twitter.com/WuJ8OFQnvm

— Marshall Julius (@MarshallJulius) May 22, 2023

J.K. Rowling - Sympathy Royalties

Then thank you to everyone who gave me sympathy royalties. Very kind. pic.twitter.com/bHwmckMFte

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) May 11, 2023

Very funny.

I admire J.K. Rowling for refusing to back down.

April Fools' Day

It’s April Fool’s Day. Geoffrey Chaucer’s, The Canterbury Tales (1392), contains the first recorded link between 1st of April and foolishness. pic.twitter.com/t1H18Uam2W

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) April 1, 2023

1 April 1957. BBC TV broadcasted the April Fool “Spaghetti Tree Hoax” on Panorama, which was convincingly presented by Richard Dimbleby, who claimed spaghetti grew on trees. In the days before cheap air travel, many TV viewers believed this was true. pic.twitter.com/SBg6wxsZ18

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) April 1, 2023

Rewriting Children's Books

CHILDREN'S BOOKS REWRITTEN TO BE MORE INCLUSIVE... changes to Roald Dahl's books include:

- 'the tiny men' to 'the little people'
- 'his face white w/ horror' to 'his face agog w/ horror'
- 'fat juicy little child' to 'juicy little child'@BillHemmer @DanaPerino @JimmyFailla pic.twitter.com/YOq8OAJxzi

— America's Newsroom (@AmericaNewsroom) February 20, 2023

This is ridiculous.

Purging allegedly offensive words from books will protect kids. Meanwhile, children are being mentally and physically tortured at school by bullies.

The woke crap is presented as important but it accomplishes nothing.

Anne Frank - 92

12 June 1929 | A German Jewish girl, Anne Frank, was born in Frankfurt.

In 1942 on her 13th birthday she received an empty diary. She perished in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.

'Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character & goodness.' (A.Frank) pic.twitter.com/2r7T8TMN2K

— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) June 12, 2021

Dr. Seuss - Bestsellers on Amazon

Who knew Joe Biden was such a great book seller. pic.twitter.com/7SNmUOQGaB

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 3, 2021

Making America great again one Dr. Seuss book at a time.

Dr. Seuss: Oh, the Books You'll Burn!

Six Dr. Seuss Books To Stop Being Printed As Biden Cuts Author From Read Across America Day https://t.co/YppzEBksX2 pic.twitter.com/e9F7BB8k3U

— The Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) March 2, 2021

From The Daily Wire:

The company that publishes Dr. Seuss books will stop selling six titles, citing racist and insensitive imagery.

“These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” Dr. Seuss Enterprises told The Associated Press in a statement.

“Ceasing sales of these books is only part of our commitment and our broader plan to ensure Dr. Seuss Enterprises’ catalog represents and supports all communities and families,” the company told the outlet in a statement Tuesday, which just happens to be the birthday of Dr. Seuss, whose real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel.

The company that seeks to preserve and protect the author’s works said they will no longer publish “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,” “If I Ran the Zoo,” “McElligot’s Pool,” “On Beyond Zebra!,” “Scrambled Eggs Super!,” and “The Cat’s Quizzer.”

...President Joe Biden on Monday avoided mentioning Dr. Seuss in his presidential proclamation for Read Across America Day, which is celebrated on the author’s birthday. The move was a far cry from his former boss, Barack Obama.

In the former president’s 2014 proclamation, he said Dr. Seuss’ stories “challenge dictators and discrimination. They call us to open our minds, to take responsibility for ourselves and our planet.”

In 2015, Obama said: “The works of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known to us as Dr. Seuss, have sparked a love for reading in generations of students. His whimsical wordplay and curious characters inspire children to dream big and remind readers of all ages that ‘a person’s a person no matter how small.”

And in 2016, Obama said Seuss was “one of America’s revered wordsmiths” who “used his incredible talent to instill in his most impressionable readers universal values we all hold dear.”

Quite a dramatic about-face!

https://t.co/X8OSGDodHU pic.twitter.com/XO9XiqputJ

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) March 2, 2021

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss, you purveyor of hurtful and wrong images!

Andrea Mitchell Fails Literature

Andrea Mitchell made a complete fool of herself when attempted to bash Sen. Ted Cruz. In her stunningly stupid tweet, Mitchell showed her lack of basic knowledge of HIGH SCHOOL literature.

I clearly studied too much American literature and not enough Macbeth. My apologies to Sen. Cruz.

— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) February 11, 2021

I was able to identify that passage from Macbeth when I was a HIGH SCHOOL freshman.

Of course, Cruz fact checked the poorly educated Mitchell and her Cabal colleagues.

Methinks she doth protest too much.

One would think NBC would know the Bard. Andrea, take a look at Macbeth act 5, scene 5:

“[Life] struts & frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound & fury,
Signifying nothing.” pic.twitter.com/3GbvoLSJTh

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) February 11, 2021

Between NBC & the Washington Post, you’d think somebody would have read Macbeth. pic.twitter.com/RvTgHyTVIg

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) February 11, 2021

Sean Davis offers a good analysis of Mitchell and Rubin's intellectual failings.

And for all the dunking on Mitchell here, the real superstar of that thread is Jennifer Rubin, far and away the dumbest pundit in all of American politics, rolling in for the high five and immediately stepping on a rake. https://t.co/m5SUzQuCLk

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) February 11, 2021

Here is some icing on the cake:

Not a great look for the UPenn English department pic.twitter.com/SqtihLDbJL

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) February 11, 2021

In 1967, Mitchell received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania. Her degree was in English lit and she can't identify some of the most well-known lines ever written.

That is embarrassing.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, History, and Flawed People

If literature that depicts prejudice is to be banned, I don’t know if even the Bible can survive, writes @CardinalDolan https://t.co/rCyuEOVFyb

— Brit Hume (@brithume) June 29, 2020

Flawed characters fuel literature and history.

These characters can't be purged and wiped away. Literature and historical accounts cannot and should not be sanitized. No true stories would be left.

Human beings are flawed.

Deal with it.

Psychedelic Warlord - Beto O'Rourke: 'The Song of the Cow'

Beto O'Rourke's writings are embarrassingly weird.

From the Daily Caller:

Beto O’Rourke’s recently unearthed membership in the hacking group “Cult of the Dead Cow” may not have included the “edgiest sorts of hacking activity,” but it did, apparently, include writing murder fantasies and exceptionally bad poetry.

Writing under the now-exposed pseudonym “Psychedelic Warlord,” a teen-aged O’Rourke appears to be the author of a poem titled “The Song of the Cow,” published in 1988 by “cDc (Cult of the Dead Cow) communications.”

I need a butt-shine,
Right now
You are holy,
Oh, sacred Cow
I thirst for you,
Provide Milk.

Buff my balls,
Love the Cow,
Good fortune for those that do.
Love me, breathe my feet,
The Cow has risen.

Wax my ass,
Scrub my balls.
The Cow has risen,
Provide Milk.

This sounds like lyrics from a Rick and Morty song.

Here's the rest of the poem, "The Song of the Cow."

Oh, Milky Wonder, sing for us once more,
Live your life, everlusting joy.
Thrust your hooves up my analytic passage,
Enjoy my fruits

Provider of Cheese and other wonderful dairy products,
We will cleanse your inner intestines.
We will bathe in your Pungent Odor,
Gather cotton.

Count my eyes,
Smell my skin,
Love the Scarecrow and the Milkman.
I live only for eternity,
Thirst for the undrinkable.
Hold the heat,
Praise the dough boy at the pizza shop.
Love the Oxen dung!

Beto must come to Wisconsin and do a reading of "The Song of the Cow."

"Provider of Cheese and other wonderful dairy products."

The State Fair coliseum would be the perfect place for him to wax eloquent about the beloved cow.

More on Beto's writings, from the Washington Examiner:

"The Song of the Cow" isn't the only odd piece of written work recently excavated from the former Texas congressman's past. As part of a Reuters investigation published Friday, it was discovered that O'Rourke — who was a member of the hacking group "Cult of the Dead Cow" — wrote a short story about deliberately running over a group of children in his car.

“As I neared the young ones, I put all my weight on my right foot, keeping the accelerator pedal on the floor until I heard the crashing of the two children on the hood, and then the sharp cry of pain from one of the two. I was so fascinated for a moment, that when after I had stopped my vehicle, I just sat in a daze, sweet visions filling my head," O'Rourke wrote.

The poem was funny, but there's nothing funny about running over children. That's really creepy, though it's fiction, right?

Psychedelic Warlord is a good pseudonym for Beto, almost as good as Anthony Weiner's Carlos Danger.

Almost.

Bob Woodward's New Novel

This is funny.

"Bob Woodward's explosive new novel released on Tuesday provides a glimpse into the often-private relationship between President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump."

Explosive new NOVEL.

Fiction.

Yes.

Tom Wolfe R.I.P.

Remembering Tom Wolfe, one of the central makers of modern American prose: https://t.co/jk16oeYADY pic.twitter.com/vf4oHVm7Ic

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) May 15, 2018

We are saddened to hear of Tom Wolfe’s passing & would like to extend our condolences to the Wolfe family. Author Tom Wolfe coined the term the "right stuff" in describing the fearless makeup of early test pilots @ Edwards AFB, home of @NASAArmstrong. Image/ X-15 Pilots #TomWolfe pic.twitter.com/rRmPc7FQsP

— NASA Armstrong (@NASAArmstrong) May 15, 2018

Rest in peace.

Jack Kerouac

Bob Dylan and beat poet Allen Ginsberg sitting at Jack Kerouac’s grave in 1975. pic.twitter.com/P7dbkkrqTq

— History In Pictures (@HistoryInPix) August 6, 2017