OK, Now This I Didn't Really Want to Expect...

[ltmurnau]

...but these days, Reality is so much like Satire I think I'll give up trying to create either.

The United States Senate, by a 2 to 1 margin, has voted to make English the official and sole language of the country, making further nonsense of my facetious post of April 28: http://ltmurnau.livejournal.com/105761.html

Bob Harris puts it well:

"Over two centuries of constant immigration, and never once has an official language been important enough to bother with. And in these days of the Internet, massive multilingual communication, and translation tools at our fingertips, never has an official language been less necessary. Not even close.

But it's an election year. And for about 30% of this country, fear is an emotion that overrides everything else."

http://www.bobharris.com/content/view/935/1/

Comments

[cherdt.livejournal.com]

Perhaps a nation divided cannot stand, but legislators without backbones cannot walk upright.

This sort of election-year shenanigans is exactly the opposite of what John F. Kennedy wrote about in Profiles in Courage, and reminds me of the inane legislation to criminalize flag-burning in 1992. With the exception, of course, that that legislation did not pass.

It took me a while to find it, but now I know how the individual senators voted. I want my old state back!

[bruxists.livejournal.com]

Reality is so much like Satire...

Funny, chilling and true.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Normally, good Satire is close enough to Reality that it can (and often does) fool the unsuspecting. But these days Reality has overtaken that and is now closer to bad Satire, in that not even the Onion can keep up with it....