“I will Twitter the Constitution of the United States of America. And the Bill of Rights.”

- PJ O’Rourke: Giving politicians a Twitter-ready version of the U.S. Constitution to send to voters in place of the politicians’ own thoughts will raise the tone of America’s political discourse while sparing us the pain and humiliation of learning anything more about our dreadful elected representatives, their idiot ideas, or their unwelcome whereabouts.

He’s joking, but it’s not a bad idea. I mean, there is even this:

Nineteen-year-old roommates Alex Aciman and Emmett Rensin will rewrite classics by Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Dante and other literary greats, and plan to do so in 20 or fewer 140-character tweets.

Dickens published in newspapers, one chapter at a time, and completed novels over a couple of years in this way. It’s really not so terrible an idea.

Okay, you’re right, it probably is a terrible idea.

Update: Maybe we should Tweet bills for lawmakers, “Lawmakers, read the bills before you vote.” But, that would be like actual work, wouldn’t it?