Posted 1:25 PM by Gene

Today on an apartment elevator some -- well, I never write of private citizens, so I'll keep quiet now -- boarded bearing an instrument case plastered with a bumper sticker facing me:

I ♥ TO FART

Were I more quick-witted and even more of a grouch than I am I could have let loose with any of a hundred different insulting retorts, but I held my tongue, which seemed the right thing to do.

Today it is a mortal sin not to have A SENSE OF HUMOR. Hence hack pols must tell "jokes" for which with any justice they'll cringe the rest of their lives. Hence I suspect more mourners tell jokes at funerals than ever. Hence people wear t-shirts they imagine funny. Hence cretinous bumper stickers. Sometimes it may not be apt to be funny. What is more, your sense of humor may not be mine. And while jokes may not start wars it is best to be cautious where kindling lurks; and prudence need not be the same as PC.

I'd like to think I have a sense of humor -- tempered by life, but still there. I believe this post among others shows it. At least it's not an idiotic bumper sticker.