“Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.”
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.
Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
