What voters and a lot of commentators don’t seem to understand is that we do, in effect, already have term limits. It is up to the voters to keep track of how long somebody has been in office and eject them when they have been in too long.

Who knows what history will decide to venerate as being true literature?

I am grateful that such authors’ efforts have increased the interest in reading for adults and children alike. In a country that must apologize for a functional illiteracy level of close to 25%, it is that type of easily digestible fare that improves the attention span of readers enough so that they might actually absorb a 60-page piece of non-fiction that has, luckily, been rendered eco-friendly by its publishing format.

A friend of mine is a Shakespeare professor and she always uses contemporary movie versions to introduce her students. For one thing it makes it more relevant (something Shakespeare also did by putting Antony and Cleopatra in Elizabethan attire or updating other stories that had roots in history or mythology). And since the plays were designed to be performed and not read, that also is a more appropriate delivery format for the audience. I have used the same devices myself in teaching - we cannot afford to be purists at the beginning when we grab the attention of the audience.

With the popularity of electronic media and its more widespread availability and increasing economy, we can hope that it will become the preferred media of choice soon.

Until then, regardless of the type of messenger used, I say get them in the door and hope they will become addicted enough to information or knowledge that they will become more discriminating about the content later.