Scammers and Schemers
Driverless Waymo I recently read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for the first time and was somewhat horrified by what passed for humor in Mark Twain’s work. Huck and Jim are glad when they think they have seen the last of the “King” and the “Duke,” who have been traveling up and down the Mississippi, making Huck and Jim serve them, and duping the residents of small towns with bogus entertainment. But Huck feels sad for them when, in the end, he sees that they have been tarred and feathered and are leaving town on a rail. Tom Sawyer’s cruelty is even worse when he insists on making an adventure out of freeing Jim from captivity, based on the romantic literature he has read. He fills the small cabin where Jim is chained with snakes, spiders and rats and when the rats bite him, gets Jim to write characters in his blood on a shirt Tom has stolen off his aunt’s clothesline. He makes a rope ladder out of a sheet and serves it in a pie, though there is no need for it. He, Huck and Jim go...
