Actually, if A Modest Proposal was published today it would be taken literally by the general populace, acknowledged as good, satirical reading by a few, and th

Actually, if A Modest Proposal was published today it would be taken literally by the general populace, acknowledged as good, satirical reading by a few, and then it would be promptly ignored by every major news outlet because they would be too busy talking about Snowden's girlfriend or Paula Deen.