<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Buttle&#039;s World]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://buttle.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[clgood]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://buttle.wordpress.com/author/buttle/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Eviscerating Twain]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Ron Powers <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/01/06/powers.huck.finn/index.html" target="_blank">grinds his heels</a> on the morons who want to disfigure &#8220;one of the most challenging, and instructive works of art ever published.&#8221; Powers asks:</p>
<blockquote><p>Is Twain&#8217;s inspired irony really so hard to grasp? And are today&#8217;s public school teachers really so enfeebled and so intimidated that they cannot teach it?</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;m afraid the answer is yes.</p>
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