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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (21721)	8/14/2001 11:42:08 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I'm sure the lefties feel that it tips toward the right. Most people are more inclined to see humour in those they agree with. I think there's a fair amount of humour on both sides, but the farther you go from the center the more sophomoric the humour becomes. Real wit requires intelligence and a degree of detachment, things sorely missing among most ideologues.

To: Bill who wrote (21721)	8/15/2001 9:21:01 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

<<But it seems to me, admittedly without statistical evidence, that the humorless scale tips decidedly to the left. >> My impression is that the most humorless of all are the far left, the PC-left. I guess i'm thinking of white types who would have been Stalinists a generation ago. (I suspect that whatever his faults, and they are myriad, Al Sharpton isn't humorless.) That far left constituency seems to run a continual scan to decide what they are allowed to laugh at. I have a feeling that the correspondingly far right laughs, but I have no idea at what it is they laugh at, besides, i suspect, Gallagher. I suspect it would disturb me, but can't be sure. My impression is that people who call themselves liberals and conservatives are about balanced in humor- ous/less -ness, though thinking different things are funny, often. Just impressions....