I love dark, sharp humor

Post #304,432 by mhuber 2/21/09 12:08:28 AM Reply	I love dark, sharp humor That ain't it, that's just being nasty. I like humor that is obnoxious. But it has to be funny, obnoxious isn't enough. I'll laugh at a good fart joke, but not at somebody who just makes fart noises. The comics in question are the visual equivalent of somebody making fart noises. I think I might just start wearing the little electric chair even though it didn't quite go down that way. That's dark humor. And it's even funnier because it's historically wrong.
Post #304,532 by boxley 2/22/09 10:14:18 PM Reply	well, wearing a syringe would prolly get you busted and 3 thousand pictures of george chimp bush is funny and one of congress is racist?
Post #304,544 by mhuber 2/23/09 2:47:16 AM Reply	Two things 1) W actually does look kind of like a chimp. 2) black person <=> chimp is a classic bit from the golden age of racism.
Post #304,552 by boxley 2/23/09 9:11:49 AM Reply	on 2 obama didnt write the stimulus, white legislature did you look for racist stuff you generally find it.
Post #304,586 by mhuber 2/23/09 11:26:39 PM Reply	you know that & I know that but the cartoonist's intended audience doesn't get the idea that Obama isn't the entire United States government except when they sit down and think about it, which is rare. A substantial part of this guy's ouvre depends on using a boneless leg-flip to signal "gay". Compared to that, the distinction between legislative and administrative functions, particularly when the administrative is rockstar and the legislative has been hiding under a rock, is a bit sophisticated. If the cartoonist mean the chimp to represent Congress, it's like explaining relativity using choo-choo metaphors because the word "train" is too big.
Post #304,588 by Ashton 2/24/09 5:26:18 AM Reply	;^> The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. -- H.L. Mencken

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