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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (11830)	4/18/2001 12:59:42 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Doesn't make it any less satire. Look at the Landover Baptist Church "satire." Not satire of the authors, for sure, but celebrated here as satire. And your satire invoked the SI administration and implicitly threatened to have people punished, which goes far beyond you. I, at least, didn't make any threats. So in some ways yours was more cruel than I. More consistene with the X persona which may or may not have been temporarily abandoned. Actually, I'm not even sure satirizing oneself really counts as satire. Did you really think you were holding yourself up to scorn, derision, or ridicule? (My dictionary's definition of satire.) If you were doing that, which I don't think you were, it would be better defined as self-flagellation than self-satire. Where's Joan when we need her?