Crossposted: http://theheretik.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/02/why_laugh_when_.html
I overheard sombody down here asking why people on earth laugh when the world is so screwed? It sounded like Belushi, but I think it was one of the workers heading to finish the Leno Suite.
Why laugh indeed? Sometimes even The Heretik has had enough of the demonic laughter. It's not just hot down here at the mouth of hell, it's also noisy. When I can't stand it anymore and before my mouse melts, I click here: thismodeernworld.com, and here: bettybowers.com, and here: patriotboy.blogspot.com for some small comic, satiric relief.
Then before my laptop melts and goes molten in the river Styx, I think about the role of satire. How can you laugh lightly in these dark times? Heretik, Heretik, Heretik, five years in, is there really no hope for the new millenium?
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