> If you want to write an article, you must first send 10 headline ideas and a sample piece of satire to: Ideas@TheHardTimes.net.

I can't imagine how insufferable a job it is checking that mailbox every day.

The piece feels like a first draft. The editor in me is screaming that it needs to go back to the author with a note that says "this is at level 1. What can we do to take it up to level 2?"

(But nobody is willing to pay editors anymore, so everything we read tops out at level 1. Sigh.)

I thought it was hilarious.