Kill Tony 

Have You Seen the Kill Tony podcast? I hadn’t until JM recommended it to me, saying, “It’s political satire, but you’ll like it.”

I did like it.

It has the three necessary elements to make political satire do its job (which is to open our minds by reducing our fears and prejudices):

* It must be timely – about topics people care about.

* It must hold a mirror up to life, as the Bard said – i.e., it must depict the target realistically.

* Its fundamental mission is to unify, not divide.

* Its fundamental emotion is tolerance, not derision.

Here’s a recent example.