After my last post I received an email from Kath Bell a bit surprised that I didn't realize that her Letter to the Editor about Senator Burch was satirical.
I'm a fan of satire, but that one went over my head, and a few others, none of us who could decide whether it was serious or not. In hindsight the first paragraph is obviously satirical, but I have heard people seriously argue some of her later comments, and the last sentence of the first paragraph isn't satire, it's demonstrably true:
We could dispense with the rest of his colleagues in Cabinet - most of them haven't the slightest notion what they are doing anyway.
