REPOST: The New England Journal of Haughtiness

 Several of the first posts to this blog no longer have the satire pieces visible through Blogger, though I can see them on the edit pages.  Since it was 12 years ago, I am reposting them. 

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Of all of the Alcott's, only Louisa May understood that just as there should be a place for everything, and everything in place. So it should be with great unwashed.

New England Journal of Haughtiness, May 1909

Month in, month out, this staid journal never was one to cross any line in the sand that it had drawn for others.  In May, 1909, the Editorial Board launched an ill-fated war on contractions, feeling that they were at the root of society's ills.