FOR WANT OF A NAIL

[Little Star]

Gin and Tacos


(January 16, 2033. A fire-lit cabin in the hills of Brezhnev City, Stalinton – formerly Boise, Idaho. A man sitting on a shattered milk crate looks older than his 53 years. His rumpled, malnourished grandson sits at his feet.)

"Grandpa? My friend Sergei says that this used to be the most powerful country in the world. Is that true? I thought it sounded silly."

Grandpa looked around cautiously. They are alone. "Actually, your friend is right, Vlad. It used to be called 'America'." His eyes glimmer briefly. "Now there's a word I haven't heard in ages."

http://www.ginandtacos.com/category/rants/

Beautifully written, clever satire.

[Octafish]

1. That is literature.

Meaning through art it provides truth.

Thank you, Little Star. G&T is outstanding.

[Little Star]

2. That's the first time I ever visited there....

I found it through Memeorandum. Saved it in my favorites folder cause I intend to visit more often. Great site.

[Octafish]

6. Dopamine's Only Natural Predator

Great writing, for an academic... or anybody.

From the comments section:

Repetitive and/or irritating trolls will be added to the spam filter. Sorry. Unlike the rest of my professional and academic life, this website is a place in which I don't have to suffer stupidity."

[libodem]

3. I don't get it

And I didn't care for the story at all. I missed something in that 'satire'.

[daleanime]

4. Well there's the idea that if their guns had a few more rounds...

the teabag militia could defeat the US Army.




Not really to my taste either,the satire is too subtle.

[libodem]

7. Those kind of people

Are not my kind of people, I can't identify with the lifestyle. Is it fantasy futuristic? As in post apocalypse?

[daleanime]

8. Post Apocalypse in the extreme....

to the point where Evil Inhuman Socialist Incarnate Obama has people consuming their own dead offspring.



Sadly I think too many(most?) teabaggers would miss the sarcasm. Not blunt enough.

[MineralMan]

5. Sounds like a right wing dystopian view of the future to me.

Now, I didn't read more of it, so perhaps your sample isn't representative, but I'm not prompted to go read more, either.