People do get a little humorless sometimes. I guess I have my trollish moments, too. A couple of months ago Drumbeat was working itself up to the No Knothing position in reguards to the Mexican illegal immigants, the Lou Dobbsian pro Minuteman stuff. I got in a couple of serious arguments calling a spade a spade about the Minutemen-they are a bunch of drunken thugs, carrying guns and intimidating Latinos here in Texas and elsewhere. Allowing that kind of Militia was one of the primary causes of the American Civil War.

I think the immigration situation is a result of our energy and climate change situation, combined with Thomas Malthus. Spanish and Portugese speaking America is a real seat of the world population growth and climate change is hurting the productivity of the lands with chronic drought in the Amazon and the Chihuahuan desert. And, its only going to get worse if we don't help them out to become prosperous at home. At any rate, I started calling the illegal immigrants "Documentationally Challenged", which I thought was pretty funny and a pretty fair ribbing of the politicially correct verbal conventions we all adhere to these days.

Only on problem, nobody laughed or even acted as thougth I might be kidding . Oh shit, we are entirely too serious. And that's not a joke.
Bob Ebersole

The comedian Don Novello had a great series of books in his personna of Lazlo Toth, where he published his letters and replies from various places. I would love to read this set you describe.

Phil Hendrie on the radio does this in real-time where he fakes out his callers by creating fictitious guests with his own voice. But everyone knows the joke except for a few clueless that call in. But unlike oil, there is an unlimited supply of cluelessness.