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Gene Lalor | June 28, 2010
Black humor and dark comedy have nothing to do with race, although racial agitators probably construe those terms as racial just as they did some years back with the word ”niggardly” which simply means stingy or miserly.
Rather, black humor involves finding something darkly, ironically amusing in what are very serious issues. Three examples follow.
Our nation is under attack, whether most people want to concede that or not.
So we institute such measures as “no fly lists” which are supposed to protect us from Islamic or other terrorists by denying them passage on airlines which could be commandeered by those terrorists who could then turn those jetliners into missiles and hurl them into the White House and other targets.
The chief problem with that anti-terrorist “strategy” is that it assumes the crazies will employ the same tactics as they did on 9/11.
Notwithstanding that empty-headed assumption, a 6 year old Ohio girl, Alyssa Thomas, turned up on the terror watch list. Airport officials in Cleveland magnanimously allowed her to fly but warned her parents to be cognizant of Alyssa’s terrorist inclinations: http://tiny.cc/cc8uh
Meanwhile the “underwear bomber,” Umar Farouk Abdulmutellab, flew into United States airspace with impunity on Christmas Day and only his ineptitude prevented a disaster; even the GAO has cited numerous failures on the part of DHS agents.
Another instance of dark humor emanates from the Lake Michigan area where an invasive species of voracious Asian bigheaded carp promises to devour domestic carp and any other fish in its path.
That’s in no way funny to Michigan fishermen although one solution for the predicament could be considered mildly amusing. Illinois Senator Dick Durban, Senate majority whip, is proposing the appointment of yet another federal czar to deal with the threat to Lake Michigan’s ecosystem.
Bad enough that this carp czar would add another layer of needless bureaucracy to Obama’s already overflowing boatload of czars but Durbin is also proposing a study of “a massive engineering feat” (read multibillion dollar boondoggle).
This feat would be conducted by the Army Corps of Engineers which is expected ”to deliver its report within eighteen months:” http://tiny.cc/cueme
Based on its rapid reproduction rate, a year and a half from now the bigheaded carp could very well have eaten most of the domestic sea life in Lake Michigan, rendering Durbin’s carp czar idea as superfluous as it is ridiculous.
Finally, regarding the sick tale of the “alleged sexual assault” charge filed against former VP Al Mr. Rectitude Gore, which is being buried by the MSM as fast as it can get its weasley paws on shovels, got an additional shot of veracity this past weekend.
(See “Gropey Gore, the MSM, and the Mad Masseuse,” http://tiny.cc/vjq2r)
The Goreacle is accused of letting his hair, and his pants, down in a Portland, Oregon hotel in 2006 when he called for a masseuse to massage his stresses away. As reported on TheSmokingGun.com, the masseuse described Big Al as a giggling “crazed sex poodle. . . a tipsy, handsy predator who forced her to drink Grand Marnier, pinned her to a bed, and forcibly French kissed her.”
This past weekend, the Portland Police Bureau released the complete half hour+ audio tape of the complainant’s allegations against Gore, which tape makes it vividly clear that Al went much further than drunken groping of the 54 year old masseuse.
Listen to the full audio here: http://tiny.cc/c7t2y. To me, they’re the words of an honest woman.
She suggests she was on the verge of being raped by a man who knew that his status and reputation would far outweigh any claims she could make since it would be a “he says, she says” situation.
The black humor here is not meant to make light of sexual abuse.
It’s humorous in that the tape reveals Gore caught in an inconvenient lie, showing that this uptight, humorless, liberal icon of rectitude is nothing more than “a big lummox” who, when he gets a snootful, is a horn dawg, “a crazed sex poodle” who would try to take advantage of a defenseless woman.
It’s not laughable but as with a misused terror list and a carp czar, it’s wickedly and wryly ironic. Then, again, humor like beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.
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