As for this particular attempt at satire, I think it hit the target in a few places (in terms of nailing what's going on behind the original propaganda), and th

As for this particular attempt at satire, I think it hit the target in a few places (in terms of nailing what's going on behind the original propaganda), and the rest of it reads like pretty much every other Zed Shaw blog post Zed's no Mark Twain. He took something that was almost a perfect self-parody and then made it less funny. When I read his version I get the same uneasy feeling I get when I worked with some guys from Long Island that would download Howard Stern episodes and listen to them on repeat all day. I wonder why he bothered to expend any energy on this. It's like making fun of retarded people.