Holding on to sanity

I wonder if you’re like me and think we might be living in some kind of crazy alternative universe where the inmates have taken over the asylum. And perhaps that’s why the only people who seem to be making sense these days are our comedians. I mean really, have you watched one of the so-called morning “news shows” lately? You don’t have to take a digital trip over to the likes of Malkin or Drudge or Fox News to feel like your head is spinning with the crazies. Because, while

the current occupation in Iraq continues and Cheney has his sites set on Iran,
the best the Dems can do on healthcare reform excludes even legal immigrant children from coverage, and then that gets vetoed,
the Dem-contolled congress gets ready to pass yet another bill approving spying on US citizens,
global warming threatens to destroy the planet,
the Supreme Court continues to uphold the concept of executive priviledge,
New Orleans residents contine to either suffer at home or remain in the diaspora,
we continue to legalize torture and strip habeus corpus of any meaning,
our economy teeters on the brink of disaster, and
one of the biggest “growth industries” is prisons for the marginalized in our society (be they brown immigrants or black youth)…

we get fed lines of dribble about the importance of the most inane “news” stories one could ever imagine. Frankly, sometimes I feel like I’m loosing my mind. And were it not for the blogs where I can touch base with other “crazy folks” and the television comics like Stewart, Colbert, Black, and Maher, I’m sure I’d be locked up by now. Here’s a prime example of one of my links to sanity:

This is the line that sent me over the edge:

I’m not comfortable with any idea that can’t be expressed in the form of men’s jewelry. If it takes more than two cufflinks to say it…you lost me. Now that’s some funny (oh, but only because its so heart-breakingly true).

I’d love it if folks would share some of your sanity-saving devices, especially the ones that make you laugh!!