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One of my favorite blogs to read is Snide Remarks. I like it because it is satire. And funny. And funny satire. Sometimes it is not satirical, but it is always funny.

Satire is great. Did you know that not everyone appreciates satire? True. Some people don't even realize that it exists. This is something that has happened since the beginning of time. One example comes from WAY back in the eighteenth century. Jonathan Swift wrote this treatise on how to solve the hunger crisis in Ireland. He called it "A Modest Proposal." It was about eating babies.
"A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout."

The reason it was satire was because that proposal is not modest, but AWESOME. Swift, as many of you will know, was the founder of the understatement. Irish babies, before the famine, were totally living on potatoes and beer. Have you ever had grain-fed cattle? Delish.

Even earlier, though, the Latins had a whole format for satire. They frequently used straight-out humor to get the reader over the hump that occurs when the reader is subjected to a lot of preaching and dogma at one time. Sometimes it makes a better point to just use satire instead of saying something like "Man. I wish people would shut their pie holes about how awesome something (SOMEONE) is. " Those crazy Latins. You may also see some of their satire on Univision. Especially on Sabado Gigante.

More recently, satire has become a real tool in exposing real tools. Or tool-like situations. Have you read Catch-22? It is filled with satire and tools. My favorite part is that there is a character who is dead. His name is "The Dead Man in Yossarian's Tent." He is completely dead throughout the entire book. But Army still keeps him around. Because he is not dead on their rosters. It's funny because it's true! Except Army would not be that way today, because they are not bogged down in mindless bureaucracy and paperwork.

Some people don't like to read satire. It makes them feel uncomfortable. Some of these people are also the ones that take offense for people that are not them. Like when I say I want to canonize someone and, maybe, attend CourtneyCon that W is starting at the Provo Marriott. They get all "You are just hero worshiping and trying to make her love you."

For those people, I would suggest Lolcats.

(But not Rolcats. Because that is Satire.)