is like claiming that it was "a winner" at the Special Olympics. Camino is terrible and unstable - Internet Exploder needs that little confidence booster, I guess. M$IE is useless, Camino is less than that (but it has a cool icon), and I'm glad I don't run either of them...
Although the site itself is parody, the letter does not appear to be so - parody requires comic distortion via amplification of a culturally perceived trait or practice. Whitehouse.org fits the description, but this letter doesn't distort or amplify, it just reverses position. Satire might fit, but that's a stretch as well.
I love parody - I'm a regular visitor to Whitehouse.org and many of the other Chickenhead sites. The problem is, parody is a misunderstood concept - lying or masquerading as another, when the adopted persona does not amplify a particular aspect of the real, is not parody, it's defamation of character. This is an important issue: dead tree parodies have lawyers to tell them when they've stepped over the line into libel or defamation (and it is a fine line to tread). We don't - which means we need to be careful when posting this kind of thing.
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is like claiming that it was "a winner" at the Special Olympics. Camino is terrible and unstable - Internet Exploder needs that little confidence booster, I guess. M$IE is useless, Camino is less than that (but it has a cool icon), and I'm glad I don't run either of them...
Although the site itself is parody, the letter does not appear to be so - parody requires comic distortion via amplification of a culturally perceived trait or practice. Whitehouse.org fits the description, but this letter doesn't distort or amplify, it just reverses position. Satire might fit, but that's a stretch as well. I love parody - I'm a regular visitor to Whitehouse.org and many of the other Chickenhead sites. The problem is, parody is a misunderstood concept - lying or masquerading as another, when the adopted persona does not amplify a particular aspect of the real, is not parody, it's defamation of character. This is an important issue: dead tree parodies have lawyers to tell them when they've stepped over the line into libel or defamation (and it is a fine line to tread). We don't - which means we need to be careful when posting this kind of thing.