The problem with it, for me, is that the context is hard to ascertain. I surely understand effective satire, and perhaps the point was to leave the context ambiguous in order to cause one to look inside and flesh out the story. All it does for me is cause resentment, but I absolutely will be reading the article so that I can get to that.

On a related subject though, Americans (no matter their political stripes) are so tied to their preconceived notions, stereotypes, and cliche' driven politics, that everything looks like an attack. We move immediately to defending our position no matter what the issues being raised are. It makes for a stratified political debate with very little hope of effective solutions and progress. We seek out only that evidence that buttresses our own positions. Judging from the "proof" that comes everyday in the email, otherwise good people on the right and the left are perfectly willing to manufacture lies to do this. Time to wake up, folks. For the first time in our history, we have a real chance to make progress using 100% of our talent and brain trust. For all the impact this land has made on the world, most of it for the better, some not for the better, it has been accomplished using these timeless ideals, a novel new version of democracy, and only 40 to 45% of our braintrust, namely white males. For us to turn this moment into a seminal time, we must drop our cliche's, look to real solutions, understand that demonizing one another simply blocks real progress, and fight like hell for the soul of our nation.

Sorry for the digression.

All the best,

Mick