Black Humor

Black Humor

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. . .
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