Posted on 10/15/2014 5:31:52 PM PDT by Sean_Anthony
We reside in a culture where the cognitive dissonance gets ever more obvious, yet ever larger numbers are choosing not to see. It leaves one wondering whether to laugh or cry
Have you heard the one about the Rabbi, the Imam and the fat chick? Me neither. In fact, it’s been so long since I’ve heard a good joke that I almost forgot what it feels like to laugh. It seems this is somewhat of a universal experience, as many of my friends and acquaintances have similar plaints.
But then, what would you expect from a culture that carefully monitors every utterance in search of some hint of racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia or whatever the phobia du jour might be. There was a time that we could laugh at each other and ourselves. Regretfully that time has gone the way of the passenger pigeon, as culturally we seem to have devolved into a grim, sovietised, humourless society obsessed with watching other peoples’ Ps and Qs
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Gallows humor seems to be the norm these days.
Dunno about the rabbi and imam, but I saw Meghan McCain on TV last night
What do you get when you cross an insomniac, an atheist and a dislexic?
Someone who lies awake at night wondering if there’s a dog.
Did you hear the police put an APB out on the midget fortune teller?
They are saying it is a small medium at large.
Took me a moment, but I got it. Good one!
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