Frog Hospital's Fred Owens & Pax On Both Houses Examine Power, Small-Mindedness & Humor

Fred Owens

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We have the pre check deal so airport security is not a problem, but I don't begin to enjoy the journey until we are past security. I call it the No Joke Zone.

Giving power to people unaccustomed to it is risky business. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/08/abraham-lincoln-on-adversity-and-power.html A tangent... I once came upon an Islamic saying: "The gates of heaven will swing wide for those who make their fellows laugh." Catholic boy that you are, you'll remember how saints were categorized as "martyrs," "virgins," "bishops," "confessors," etc. I propose new categories of "comedian" and "humorist." Laughter is a dependable antidote for the "power-grouches" who make it their business to create No Joke Zones. Notably, the internet abounds with images of Mussolini and Trump, not only looking like identical twins but stiking poses that are deliberately grumpy and hard-nosed - like self-preening adolescents in Springsteen's "Born To Run" - "And the boys try to look so hard."