Shrinking the Alito opening statements
Wherein I callback to one of my first posts.
MS Word is the software product most likely to give me an anueryism; however, it does have at least one entertaining feature - Autosummarize. Notice I said entertaining, not useful. Here’s how Microsoft describes it:
The lower the percentage you select, the lower the coherency you’ll get back. So I’ve taken the opening statements for Judge Alito and summarized each to 10% of the original.
I’ve used the transcripts published by the NY Times. Sure, you can find more insightful cmmentary, but no where can you find shorter commentary that took so long to produce.
Click to see how each senator survived the shrinking:
MS Word is the software product most likely to give me an anueryism; however, it does have at least one entertaining feature - Autosummarize. Notice I said entertaining, not useful. Here’s how Microsoft describes it:
AutoSummarize determines key points by analyzing the document and assigning a score to each sentence. Sentences that contain words used frequently in the document are given a higher score. You then choose a percentage of the highest-scoring sentences to display in the summary.
The lower the percentage you select, the lower the coherency you’ll get back. So I’ve taken the opening statements for Judge Alito and summarized each to 10% of the original.
I’ve used the transcripts published by the NY Times. Sure, you can find more insightful cmmentary, but no where can you find shorter commentary that took so long to produce.
Click to see how each senator survived the shrinking:
- Arlen Specter (R-PA) CHAIRMAN I expect abortion to be mentioned a couple times and the Supreme Court should bow down before congress
- Orrin Hatch (R-UT) judges judge
- Charles Grassley (R-IA) He's smart, that's enough for me
- Jon Kyl (R-AZ) I have nothing to say
- Mike DeWine (R-OH) Uppity court
- Jeff Sessions (R-AL) I'd like to buy that man a drink
- Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Republicans are not mainstream
- John Cornyn (R-TX) The Supreme Court has gotten a bit uppity and liberal
- Sam Brownback (R-KS) The Supreme Court has gotten a bit uppity
- Tom Coburn (R-OK) Abortion
- Patrick Leahy (D-VT) You do not look like America
- Edward Kennedy (D-MA) I'm not wearing any pants
- Joseph Biden (D-DE) States rights and I've just noticed you are not a woman
- Herbert Kohl (D-WI) Abortion and poor people
- Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) Abortion
- Russell Feingold (D-WI) We will ask you tough questions
- Charles Schumer (D-NY) You aren't a women and you think like a conservative; therefore wrong
- Richard Durbin (D-IL) Judge Alito hates women and civil rights
- Judge Alito I am the very model of a modern judgie judgie judge
1 Comments:
LOL! You're right. That's pretty entertaining.
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