Time for a little dark humor? an opened thread

I don't get to watch the Jon Stewart show, though I've heard it's hilarious. Thanks for the link -- it was outstanding. I don't think too many Westerners really think about how our policies must sound to others.

I can't really think of any dark comedy pieces -- except, of course, for the two current occupants of the Blight House.*

*blight, n. Something that impairs growth, withers hopes and ambitions, or impedes progress and prosperity.

Flying by the seat of my rants...

Subject: A big victory for Redrock Wilderness!

Dear NRDC BioGems Defender,

We've scored a landmark legal victory against the Bush Administration's relentless drive to put oil and gas rigs in some of Utah's most spectacular canyonlands.

NRDC went to federal court on your behalf to stop the Bureau of Land Management from selling oil and gas leases on 16 parcels of wilderness-quality lands in southern Utah.

Now that court has ruled that the BLM broke the law by rushing to put these lands on the auction block without considering the environmental impacts.

At stake are magnificent wildlands in Desolation Canyon, the Book Cliffs and the Flat Tops wilderness areas. They are home to bighorn sheep, elk, cougars, peregrine falcons, endangered black-footed ferrets and bald eagles.

Since 2003, the Bush Administration has opened more than 100 parcels of such wild land in Utah alone -- despite conceding that these gems are worthy of strict wilderness protection.

Thanks to our legal victory, every one of those lease sales has been thrown into question. And the court's decision could reverberate in other western states, such as Colorado, where the BLM has been controversially selling off lands deserving of wilderness protection.

BioGems Defenders like you have advanced our Redrock campaign by urging Congress to pass "America's Redrock Wilderness Act," which would protect millions of acres of southern Utah's most spectacular mountains, canyons and rivers. Our victory in court underscores, now more than ever, the importance of
that proposed legislation.

Thank you for helping to protect America's Redrock Wilderness!

Sincerely,

Frances Beinecke
President
Natural Resources Defense Council

Not dark humor, but with the potential to improve one's general humor...

I was reading Susie Madrak's blog on Huffington Post. She has some background and a link to the Draft Al Gore site. I'd seen the site before, though not recently. What Susie makes clear in her post is the importance of a plan, and that there really is a plan.

Boy, I would really love to see a successful drafting of Al Gore for 2008! Anyone else?

Here's the link at Huffington Post; it has the link to Draft Gore.

Karen M ~ Bread Crumbs and Lyssa Strada

...is one shiny-happy brown person.

If there was ever any doubt this administration is doing the Lord's Work, I hope this finally puts those doubts to rest. What a great people we could be if our entire country could learn to look at adversity in the same, positive, way those people do...

I thought this article in the New York Times was, maybe not dark humor, but for sure some pretty pathetic humor.

Basically it's saying that Bush is surprised that the Iraqis and the new government aren't showing a little more appreciation for the United States' efforts.

Hey, maybe he didn't see the Daily Show clip! Yeah, that must be it.

Flying by the seat of my rants...