The problem is that one can't distinguish the news from the satire, simply because reality is bad enough that the situation as described is so believable (but for Mr. Bing's comments). For example, there used to be private coach buses through the more dilapidated sections of the Haight Ashbury in San Francisco for the tourists to take pictures of real hippies). I'd have to do a bunch of searching to make the determination and would then find a frustrating waste of time. It's the old, "truth is stranger than fiction" problem. Accordingly, a few links with which to make those distinctions would make the read more pleasurable.
Nicely crafted though.
All good satire contains a grain of truth. John's usually contains several large grains. Thanks, John for putting me on ping.
I recently watched "Detropia", a kind of documentary about the current state of decay of Detroit. It was highly rated, but kind of poorly edited, nonetheless, IMHO. One of the reasons I watched it was because it was like a travelogue of the ruins of Detroit. I could see what the destruction that socialism always causes, without having to risk getting shot.
My point is that, as usual, your posts are a brilliant refracting lens of reality. Amazing.