Un Funny

Despite the loss of comic relief, I am relieved that Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Herman Cain, Michelle Bachmann and Rick Perry are no longer candidates for the presidency of the United States.  The laughs were always nervous laughs, because we knew that there was a real possibility

Un Inspiring

that one of them would actually become president of the United States, a position in which they would actually have enough power to bring about the destruction of life on this earth as we know it.

All of them, except Trump and Cain, had been elected to high political office.  Perry had achieved that feat numerous times.  Besides, just look at who’s still in  the race.  You have dog abuser Willard Mitt Romney, the Cayman candidate; serial adulterer and world’s most blatant hypocrite Newton Leroy Gingrich; Rick “scientists are immoral” Santorum; and crazy old man Ron Paul.  They’re no different from Palin, Bachmann and Perry, that is, good for a laugh but the thought of them being in charge of the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear weapons is not a comforting one.

The U.S. does not have a monopoly, however, on politicians who are simultaneously comical and terrifying.

A case in point is North Korean dictator and demi-god Kim Jong Un.  When his daddy, Kim Jong Il (who Rick Perry called Kim Jong 2, because that’s how stupid Rick Perry is) croaked, I thought maybe this would be a good time for reconciliation – we’ve got ace negotiatior Hillary Clinton at State, North Korea would  reap many advantages, such as not all starving to death, if they embraced the South,  the South would welcome any such thawing of relationships, because they would not have to live in fear of their crazy cousin Kim sending a nuclear missile Seoulward just to enjoy the fireworks display, and Un does not look quite as bizarre and extraterrestrial as his father.

But it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen.  In fact, just about his first official act was to order the arrest of anybody who didn’t look sincere enough during the public mourning for famous funny fat man Kim Jong Il.  Those who stayed home, or whose crying seemed insincere, will be sent off to labor camps, where they will meditate on the error of their  ways.  Have you seen those videos?  Seemed like pretty genuine – even exaggerated- grief to me.  Fear is a powerful motivator.  Imagine a director saying to an actor “look upset or I will send you away to a labor camp where you will be starved and beaten and perhaps worked to death.”  That actor would turn in an Oscar worthy performance, I’ll bet.

But the comical part is, as with Rick Santorum, his name.  So far, I have seen healines reading “Kim Jong Un Impressed By….(something or other)”,  “Kim Jong Un Prepared…” and then today “Kim Jong Un Frightened…”

We can look forward to this cheap pun being abused by headline writers every where, as long as Kim Jong Un Popular Leader of North Korea.