Today I learned…

Mark Twain was a Senate staffer (?!?)

Mark Twain has been a hero of mind since my boyhood when I first learned to read and write while playing in the same creek bottoms and hearing the same Pike County accents all around me that my fellow Missourian wrote so perfectly in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.

After I lifetime of study I’m still learning new things about the great Samuel Clemens like this factoid about him that I learned reading the Senate Daily Press website:

Perhaps Mark Twain owed some of his…