"On another occasion, the proliferation of nuclear power plants throughout the United States resulted in the accidental destruction of several major cities. "

"The New Deal continued to snowball until 90 percent of the U.S. workforce was digging trenches and putting on Eugene O’Neill plays under the Works Progress Administration.

"... in the inevitable rise of a global government, itself led by a New Age tyrant who demands to be worshiped alongside some unspecified mother goddess. "

"Mega-corporations replaced most remaining national governments in the late ’90s. Everyone is now a crack addict"

"Eight hundred thousand years from now, the human race will be divided into two species—one shall live on the surface, and the other beneath the ground."

What else could these sentences be but irony/satire? An alternate world sci fi story? (the last line is basically morlocks/eloi, the rest sounds like the plot of Soylent green or Network or something - aside from maybe the mega-corporations/90s bit, which is sort of true (as in network: 'the world is a business mr beale' etc).

Satire is hinted at in the blurb in goodreads: 'Brown shows us just how lazy, stupid, and corrupt almost of all our nation’s most beloved columnists have become. I’m now fully convinced that this entire generation of over-published bullshit artists deserve to be tasered in the face, one at a time, preferably on live television.' Not really important either way