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It's All About Pipe-Weed

Jesse Walker | 4.28.2003 12:40 PM

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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 Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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  1. Mark   22 years ago

    Jesse, I'm glad to see you, unlike Glenn Reynolds, have no trouble recognizing this piece as satire--rather heavy-handed satire, at that.

  2. Jesse Walker   22 years ago

    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.

  3. Frenk   22 years ago

    Yep, definitely funny.

    "Chomsky: I think the Hobbits are criminals, essentially."

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