Jesse Walker | April 28, 2003
The boys at McSweeney's have fun with Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, imagining how they might analyze The Fellowship of the Ring.
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Jesse, I'm glad to see you, unlike Glenn Reynolds, have no trouble recognizing this piece as satire--rather heavy-handed satire, at that.
Heavy-handed, yes -- but still funny. I mean, I was against the war, but I still got a few good chuckles out of the piece.
Yep, definitely funny.
"Chomsky: I think the Hobbits are criminals, essentially."
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