--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it takes a special kind of insight and > sensibility to be able to satirize tragedy, in > a way that gets to you more profoundly than any > amount of hand-wringing.
Yep. A bonus for The Onion is the non-FalsiFiability of its "coverage". It lampoons in a dozen directions at once, yet can hardly be attacked. It's not mean. It's just clear. If it were mean, it wouldn't sink in as deep -- we'd be defensive against it.
