I don't know what's wrong with my funnybone these days, jks. I look at the news this morning and it's a laff-riot, yet I find myself oddly mirthless:
Item: "Warplanes have bombed a government clinic in the centre of Falluja [where at least 100,000 civilians are trapped] as US ground forces engaged in pitched battles with fighters defending the city."
Item: "'I got myself a real juicy target,' shouted Sgt James Anyett [participating in the assault on Falluja] .... A dozen loud booms rattle the sky and smoke rose as mortars rained down on the co-ordinates the sergeant had given. 'Yeah,' he yelled. 'Battle Damage Assessment - nothing. Building's gone. I got my kills, I'm coming down. I just love my job.'"
Item (which I posted earlier): "The knives are out, all right, [in the Administration] but it isn't for the neocons: instead, it is the 'realists' who are falling on their own swords."
Boffo stuff. Not since the Marx Brothers were in full stride has there been so much hellzapoppin' hilarity around -- and all because a pack of Bible Belt maniacs hijacked the country. So where-oh-where has my sense of humor gone?
You're right; I didn't ask you for advice. But I shall certainly consult you on comedic matters in the future. Your posts are consistently the funniest on the LBO list <suitable emoticon here>.
Carl
>--- Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > >From: Jon Johanning <jjohanning at igc.org>
> > >
> > >On Nov 8, 2004, at 9:28 AM, Carl Remick wrote:
> > >
> > >>... If you let that toxic stew simmer for decades,
> > it's really no wonder
> > >>that holy rollers are running the country now.
> > The electorate will be
> > >>baying at the moon next.
> > >
> > >I think it's a gross exaggeration to say that holy
> > rollers are running the
> > >country. I think that the statistics will show that
> > the majority of Bush's
> > >voters were in fact not "holy rollers" (whatever
> > you mean by that) ...
> >
> > Nothing good.
> >
> > >... and of course nearly half the electorate, and a
> > lot of the non-voters,
> > >don't support Bush. The holy rollers have more
> > political clout than they
> > >did some decades ago, but they are far from being
> > in complete charge of the
> > >country.
> >
> > I'd say the circumstantial evidence is strong that
> > religious loonies are in
> > complete charge of the country. Above all else, the
> > election results
> > represent adamant denial of reality -- belief that
> > Iraq was responsible for
> > 9/11, that Bush has alleviated rather than worsened
> > the potential for
> > terrorism, that the US can pile up endless external
> > debt while telling other
> > nations to go fuck themselves, etc., etc. That
> > amount of fantasy is
> > compatible only with a thoroughgoing religious
> > worldview. Faith, as Mark
> > Twain memorably observed, is believing what you know
> > ain't so.
> >
> > Carl