CLINICAL DEPRESSION. HOW LOW CAN IT GO?
How about something funny? Not like Stephen Colbert, or John Oliver, or Jimmy Kimmel, or any of the No-Talents currently schilling for the Hysterical Left. No, something genuinely FUNNY.
As a follow up to yesterday's post about Mike Royko, there's something about the 24 hour news cycle which has crushed the daily columnist.
In 2005 a radio host (Not that one) described the abundance of material on the internet as the noise floor. Nothing rises above it, but it's always there below you. The uniqueness of writers such as Royko, Caen, Barry, Rice, and Archerd disappeared as the decibel level increased.
See above to view what remains as column writing. The screen capture accompanying this column is what appears on just ONE of my news feeds. I like Real Clear Politics because it represents the loonies on both sides of the argument.
What doesn't proliferate on the internet is Erma Bombeck, or Dave Barry, or Hints from Heloise. Our balkanized country, and world, is WAY too cynical to give any of those Polly Annas room on the noise floor.
At this point Joe Bob Briggs, one of the most brilliant short-form writers of the last 75 years, can't gain a toehold in our bloated Blathersphere.
Which leaves us where we are.
Nowhere.
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