To: laotzu
Now I know how Jonathan Swift felt when his satirical proposal that the Irish should eat their own children was accepted as a realistic suggestion to ease hunger. It is increasingly difficult to distinguish satire from faithful reporting.
12 posted on
06/04/2014 8:08:32 AM PDT by
muir_redwoods
(When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
To: muir_redwoods
Now I know how Jonathan Swift felt when his satirical proposal that the Irish should eat their own children was accepted as a realistic suggestion to ease hunger. It is increasingly difficult to distinguish satire from faithful reporting. For a while my tagline was " I am so immune to satire that I ate three Irish children after reading Swift's A Modest Proposal".
27 posted on
06/04/2014 8:35:36 AM PDT by
KarlInOhio
(Republican amnesty supporters don't care whether their own homes are called mansions or haciendas.)
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