How about if someone posts a satirical article, let us know before you

[paulbibeau]

19. I respectfully disagree.

I write satire. Sometimes I try to make it bone dry. I like to explore that point where it becomes disorienting. I wrote a piece in which someone was describing how Michele Bachmann was actually making a few reasonable points recently, and embedded in the text were clues that the writer was having some kind of neurological event. NO ONE got it. I wish I'd connected with more readers - I like sharing the joke, when people surface from the insanity of the prose, and realize what I am actually saying. But I wouldn't change it.

Here's what I'm trying to do, successfully or not: Make you pay attention. Make you cling to the words, like you're trying to figure out the code to disarm the bomb that every, absolutely every, worthwhile message contains.

Here's what I'm trying to avoid, and this occurs on many, many political websites: That moment where you can't stop agreeing with me long enough to think about what I really mean.

I'm not perfect at what I do. Sometimes I'm not even good at it. But shortcuts like you describe spoil it. And it's worth doing.