It’s all about tweeting history

If our outgoing President can reduce his traditional farewell address to 15 minutes of revisionist history and “Th-th-that’s all, folks,” why can’t the rest of history be reduced to fit the Twitter format?

With only 140 characters to work with, it would be a cross between haiku and headlines.

In fact, back in the day when newspapers employed teams of professional copy editors with facile vocabularies to check facts, spelling and grammar, write headlines and cut copy to fit the space allotted, one of the ways to pass the time between stories was to…