“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all
the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” Abraham Lincoln
According to Wikipedia, satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and
shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming
individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.
The United States has had a rich tradition of
satire. Some of the country’s most notable satirists have been Ben Franklin,
Mark Twain, and Will Rogers. The late Art Buchwald and P.J. O’Rourke are two of
our more recent satirists. Television shows like Saturday Night Live, The
Daily Show, and many others present satire as well. Mad Magazine, Cracked, and
National Lampoon have all put a great deal of satire into print. The Wittenburg
Door, which published some of my satire, billed itself as “The world’s pretty much only religious satire magazine.”
