Seven Golden Rules

You got to love an article starting with the sentences: "My name is Gregor Stronach, and I am a satirist. It's not a full time occupation – I doubt that anyone, aside from George Carlin and perhaps George Bush, is making a living out of full time satire in the world today." What's more, you got to love the article in question because of its very clear (and also funny) descriptions on how to write satire on different topics (the author calls them the Seven Golden Rules), ranging from religion to a tragic event (yes). I think that you ought to read the article if you want to use satire, since it approaches the topic in a very pedagogical way. Moreover, it takes up one possible satirical topic that I haven't discussed that much on this blog; namely yourself. By showing that you acknowledge that you are not a perfect person (which you can do by satirizing yourself), you make people more prone to listen to other points you make in your satire (an example from the article is: "Mother Theresa was an old whore with no morals! But I have a small dick – how funny is that?”). Remember, nobody wants to listen to a besserwisser.