"I am sitting in the smallest room in my house. Your letter is before me. It will soon be beneath me.”The American First people are obsessed with domestic policy decisions made by foreign governments. I guess we don’t have any issues here in the US to work on. pic.twitter.com/YFMmkVtPWS
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) January 10, 2026
—-Nina Workin, Federal Ministry of Health, Germany [channeling Mark Twain.*]
*A possibly apocryphal attribution, but one meant to honor the Master.
I read it was the composer Max Reger who was commenting on a bad review in a letter to the newspaper.
ReplyDeleteProbably more accurate. Twain gets tagged when nobody knows where it started. I’d hear Twain, but doubted the attribution.
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