Okay, so Mark Steyn is making me laugh out loud. His latest column imagines the BBC reporting on the death of Mussolini, featuring interviews with Harold Pinter, Robert Fisk, Michel Foucault (HA) and others.

The first paragraph gives you an idea of the irreverent tone of the piece:

Good evening. Reports that the former Italian leader Benito Mussolini is "dead" and "hanging" "upside down" at a petrol station were received with scepticism in Rome today. Our "reporter" - whoops, scrub the inverted commas round "reporter", the scare-quotes key on the typewriter's jammed again. Anyway our reporter Andrew "Gilligan" is "on" the scene "in" Milan. Andrew...

Putting scare quotes around "on" and "in" is quite a nice touch.

At the end, Foucault responds to a question with: "Ah, mon cher BBC ami, the very concept of time is a social construct intended to produce effects of reality within a false chronological discourse."

Steyn has such a nice logical hostile sense of humor. Which I, clearly, enjoy.