And it's just. not. funny.

And as soon as I get up off the floor and stop giggling I will write a Very Angry Letter to someone.

91/1, indeed...LOL

Love me some Gina Gershon!

Keep it up, if you want McCain to win.

Unofficially: My favorite part is the subhead - Will you love Trig?

Anyone have an inkling that this might actually be posted by a right winger to make us look bad? Classic Roveian politics.

WHY WUS I BORNED LIBRUL???

I just don't get how people who would never ridicule someone for their race would ridicule someone for being "retarded." Last I checked, non-white people have the ability to fight back and the emotional development to let racist comments roll of their backs. No so easy for a little girl at the playground when someone yells that he doesn't want to be near her because she's funny looking and can't walk right.

God this shit pisses me off.

Some of us have to laugh at the very darkest stuff in life, in order to survive. Some of us, if we didn't find that blog to be mindbendingly hilarious, would be forced to leap from the Aurora bridge.

The fact that your daughter has a disability isn't funny. But laughing about the EXISTENCE of disability. . . if that doesn't work for you, cool, but understand that it does for some of us. It's not malicious, and it's not personal.

And, well, "Pee Oh Dubya" is objectively hilarious.

Who would adopt a retard? That's retarded.

I haven't looked at the blog itself, but that specific entry makes much more fun of "tarded 'Merica" and our obsession with POWs, fist jabs, and arugula than the developmentally disabled.

And, yeah, exactly. The blog isn't making fun of disabled people.

It is using a disabled child to make fun of other people. Specifically, that child's mother.

Surely nobody could have a problem with THAT. ;)

Well, avoiding talking about issues and focusing solely on personality sure seems to work for the GOP now, doesn't it?

It simply ain't funny, so why say it except to denigrate others -- and that is really unnecessary.

The point is, it IS funny to some of us! If people say un-politically-correct things about race that are based in some kind of intelligent satire, I'm likely to laugh at that is well. The fact that you don't get how decent people can find such things funny isn't really relevant to the comedy factor, as you are not the arbiter of what is funny.

Honest to gawd, I think there is a satire gene, and many (most?) people don't have it.

Just sayin'.

Additionally, yes, it is funny. Glad we could settle this.

Furthermore, it just gives the Republicans ammunition.

Ok, you win. Savage was right. It's not funny, and nobody should read it. Thank gawd SOMEbody knows what good satire looks like.

But I don't see how this gives the Repubs ammo. It's just some idiot blogger. Nobody is going to think that Obama would encourage this kind of terrible, horrible, unfunny behavior. How about all of the racist crackers on the other side? Are we really blaming McCain for what they say (aside from the racist cracker who he as chosen as his veep)? I don't think so.

And I tell you what, the next time a little disabled girl crys and can't understand why people refuse to sit at a lunch table with her and prefer to laugh and point at her while she is alone at that table, I'll explain that people with hipster and irreverant senses of humor created a climate where jokes about disabilities are acceptable, but never meant the sense of humor to extend to the lunch room.

No, this irreverent hipster gets it. And what I would say is, the kids in the lunchroom aren't reading the Slog. Kids (aka humans) are inherently mean, nasty creatures, and anybody who is different will be made fun of. It is up to parents and teachers to teach kids to be kind.

If the parents and teachers are too dumb to recognize the difference between something like Trig's blog, and allowing the kids in their care to be mean to each other. . . well, the kids are all fucked, then.

You obviously DON'T get it. People with disabilities and their families know all too well what it is like to live in this world.

In other news, Stephen Colbert is really conservative, every story in the Onion is true, and Jonathon Swift really wants to cook and eat children.

I was wondering if someone was going to cross in to this territory.

I laughed because it's so beyond the pale that it gives me something like a release. Whenever I see a joke that is so far removed from what is acceptable I'm moved to hysterical laughter. I think this can probably be explained scientifically but what the fuck do I know? Maybe I'm just awful.