Although I've never thought of this author as a comedian, while reading this fantastic article I kept waiting for a final punch line like "just kidding!", etc. Then I wondered if he was suffering from some type of mental illness or had just taken some type of hallucinatory drug.
But, look at his resumé:
Franklin Lamb, former Assistant Counsel, US House Judiciary Committee and Professor of International Law at Northwestern College of Law in Oregon, earned his Law Degree at Boston University and his LLM, M.Phil., and PhD degrees at the London School of Economics. Following three years at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Lamb was visiting fellow at the Harvard Law School’s East Asian Legal Studies Center.It has been picked up by a variety of other websites, most notably Foreign Policy Journal. Anyway, read it and see if you believe it.