Wednesday, March 16, 2011
“I make jokes because it’s the only way I can open my mouth without screaming.”
– Hawkeye Pierce, M*A*S*H
Sometimes, in the face of tragedy, we make jokes. It’s just our nature. We made jokes after the Challenger disaster. We made jokes about Hurricane Katrina. There have been jokes about AIDS, though I bristle when I hear them, and once got a co-worker into trouble when I reported him for making one. Some, I’m sure, have even made jokes about the September 11 attack on New York City and the Pentagon, though thankfully I’ve never heard any of them.
It’s called by various synonymous names: black comedy, dark humor … it’s a …
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
“The Ides of March have come.” ”Aye, Caesar, but not gone.”
William Shakespeare Julius Caesar Act III Scene 1
This date most certainly did not bode well for Julius Caesar, at least in 44 BCE. Being assassinated can really ruin a person’s day, as Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy can both attest too. (Well, actually, they can’t.)
Though it usually bodes very well here in Minnesota, where spring is just around the corner. Technically, it starts this coming Sunday at 6:21 p.m., when the sun crosses the equator in its trek northward toward the Tropic of Cancer. It can’t start soon enough for me. This has been a brutal winter for …
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