As a college student I wrote a similarly sarcastic piece in support of “blue laws” as God’s day of rest and did, in fact, get thank you letters from people who actually agreed with every word. Tricky thing, dry wit.
Is it me, or is the fact that “Holy Lies” are going to be “forced down” throats make it absurdly obvious what side he’s on, no matter how skewed your perceptions are. I can’t imagine a creationist reading this and saying, “Yeah, those kids aren’t getting enough Holy Lies! Thanks for writing this.” How is the sarcasm not obvious?
That being said, because the sarcasm is so obvious, I find it a bit weak. I prefer my sarcasm both subtle and cutting. Maybe you can mention how facts have a well-known liberal bias?
As I remarked elsewhere…
And as for the howling, vicious, ugly cretins who can’t take a joke over in the GD Letter to the Editor satire about ID, and who’ve been being so moronically “droll” and abusing me for nothing more serious than a fun little lark of a letter to the god-damned editorial page of a small city in the Midwest?
I have a few things to say about that:
(1) The attackers are unbelievably childish and juvenile and lack any adult sense of humor – though they pretend to have one far superior to everyone else’s, and I feel the style is moderately reminiscent of the Onion,
(2) On those attack responses, I’m inclined to the level of cynicism I’ve seen around here; i.e, who the fuck cares what they think? I didn’t post in in GD for a debate on humor for Bob’s sake! I posted it there to see if some Creationist took exception and wanted to argue with me!
(3) After two exceptional biological scientists, known for their own exceptional wit – one of them the famed Stanford microbiology and ecology professor and expert on Book of Mormon authorship, Dr. Craig Criddle, who has written a well-known humorous yet accurate book on chemistry – say things including:
… I really can’t imagine that any criticism is justified in the least!
They’re just being juvenile, petty, assholes. Let ‘em have their fun at my expense. Unless I melt from their oh so witty, ever-so-valid and well-informed brainpiss, I think I’ll stand with those respected scientists’ opinions…
Decaf.
You’ve missed the edit window, of course, but I think you misspelled "to say ‘Look at me, I’m wonderful!’ "
When I write a brilliant letter to a newspaper or magazine, I don’t find it necessary to run off to the Dope to brag about it. :rolleyes:
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