Satire

I plan to spend a good portion of my night writing about my experience in Grant Park, why I think Obama will be such a good president, and closing the books on the 2008 presidential campaign as much as I can. However, as I am a dutiful son of the Lutheran tradition of senseless devotion to work for the sake of work, I decided to cut short my "sick" day and come into the office, so I can't really do that right now.

However, I do want to say something briefly to temper my optimism. I received a text message this morning that read as follows: "Let us pause to lament the passing of decent political satire in the forthcoming four years."

1) Have faith in your comedians, America.
2) A large part of political satire is giving us the ability to laugh at our crappy circumstances. And while we've taken the first step onto a better road, our national and global circumstances remain pretty crappy.
3) Let's be realistic. No world leader has EVER been so perfect as to avoid becoming a target for satire.
4) For as liberal as the comedic realm generally is, they have to make a living making fun of something.

For example...