why I'm laughing while grading midterms

I can't reproduce their responses, of course, but just imagine the field day my students had when I asked them to rhetorically analyze a letter to the editor that included the following paragraph:

"While I disagree with most of what this person says, I am grateful that she admits that off-leash dogs harass and taunt dogs that are on leashes, that drug dealers and vagrants roam the park, and that fires are often set in the bark mulch that often remains unspread and in piles for months on end. I would add to this the used condoms, homosexual activity at night and piles of poop that most dogs not on a leash leave behind."

It's almost too good for words, as though a bad textbook writer came up with this to demonstrate the rhetorical effects of bad grammar. Or of a citizen hell-bent on lumping unleashed dogs in with homosexuals, cuz, well, we all know how bad those two groups are. How downright dangerous. Egads. This is our public.