LOL

Now this is what I'm talking about. 

My post on The Audacity To Laugh was featured on the Faithful Democrats website earlier this week. Readers commented that I was maybe making a mistake by not taking the McCain campaign's underhanded, malicious, and all out nasty tactics seriously enough. One of the other writers at FD spelled out the evidence that McCain really IS trying to paint Obama as the Anti-Christ in scary detail. I responded that, even if that's true and the McCain campaign is serious, it just won't help to turn all self-righteous. Nobody likes a prude.

Well, it turns out that, by refusing to get his boxers in a bunch, Obama has allowed McCain's junior high-school advertising campaign to backfire.

The Chicago Tribune's editorial board (not exactly a bunch of liberal lovers) today endorsed Paris Hilton for a Cabinet position. Mild-mannered Garrison Keillor is lol at the old guy's gaffes, including the self-revelation McCain made recently that's he's never sent an email or Googled something. "My 94-year old mother has sent an email," Keillor gaffawed. And, with the help of the guys over at Funny or Die, the AP is reporting that Paris Hilton has launched her own presidential campaign: 

 

My endorphin level couldn't be higher today. And McCain, poor guy, has never looked sillier. 

I'm thinking that maintaining a sense of humor would be a good spiritual discipline for a lot of us Christians to practice, in all kinds of settings, about all kinds of issues. I think part of the reason the mainline is in such a stalemate over GLBT issues, for example, is that people on both sides of it are just so SERIOUS. The people in the middle look from right to left and don't want to move in EITHER direction because all they see are a bunch of scowls. The grass looks plenty green right where I'm standing, thank you very much!, they say to themselves.

Here's my prediction: The winner on every issue that divides us will be the bunch who loves easily and laughs quickly and doesn't take themselves too seriously. 

Kind of like I imagine Jesus was. 

The Chicago Tribune's editorial board (not exactly a bunch of liberal lovers) today endorsed Paris Hilton for a Cabinet position. Mild-mannered Garrison Keillor is lol at the old guy's gaffes, including the self-revelation McCain made recently that's he's never sent an email or Googled something. "My 94-year old mother has sent an email," Keillor gaffawed. And, with the help of the guys over at Funny or Die, the AP is reporting that Paris Hilton has launched her own presidential campaign: