Todd 

When writing a satire it is important to make sure that you have all of the possible pieces in your satire to make it legit. In the flying spaghetti monster the author usings exaggeration in his writing by saying things like the fact that you don't need anything to back up your beliefs because they are just that, your beliefs. In the modest proposal on the other hand he throws out random facts backing up his original belief on what he is writing about. In the flying spaghetti monster the author is trying to show how idiotic people look when they are trying to support religious beliefs with nothing factual to back it up so he feels that it is more important to use science over belief. And no i do not feel that there are any issues that should never be satirically talked about because you can make a joke of anything if the people who is your audience can handle other opinions besides their own. Everything that can be debated should be able to be satirized because satires were made to make very serious or unapproachable hot topics to be more easy to talk about without offending someone.

Electronic cigarettes are one of the hot topics in america right now and they really due leaded to smoking real tobacco in the future. The flavors given with the e-cigs are flavors commonly thought of to be "children flavors". I feel that they also should be governed by the FDA to make sure that the product is harmful or not the human body as they are so portrayed. In 5-10 the teens will be using E-cigs regardless of it being legal or not but the numbers will go down a little if it becomes regulated by the FDA.

The Goodman of Paris: The two of them would not be a happy couple whatsoever. He is about the importance of being with someone that you truly care about and she is more of a free spirit when it comes to sexual activity as well as relationships. Now some may say that differences in a couple is a good thing, which is a valid point, but when I comes to issues as important as the sanctity of a relationship things like sex life and such tend to become a very hot topic. I just do not think that someone as open-minded as her would be happy with a man who is not closed-minded but rather just someone with traditional values.

I feel that if restaurants want to track people with their wifi they have the right to do so to help their business. In the past most restaurants did not have wifi but now it is so common that customers cannot get mad when businesses take advantage of an opportunity to market directly to certain cliental. If people feel that it is an evasion of privacy they can opt out of using the free wifi given to them so it is all up to the customer at that point.