when even despair is no fun anymore...

Stuff like this used to have a real gallows humor payoff for me, or might at least inspire wonder and fascination (shock and awe?) at our ability as a Nation to absorb the g-forces of our death-defying, shrieking-like-little-girls plummet, but this time, somehow, it just leaves me feeling hollow... as if these little nuggets of comic relief are hardly even worth mentioning anymore.