Recently, I read somewhere that Calvin Trillin once said (something like): 'The problem with writing satire in America, is that it's difficult to invent something so completely bizarre that it might not actually occur before what you've written is published.' That fear has haunted me since the day I began work on this piece. Though, clearly, whoever is grinding out the idiocy these days doesn't need any help from me. But, it is becoming more difficult...