Who's Afraid of the Morning News?

There are the days that all the news makes me so limp with despair that I almost cannot function. And then there are the days, like today, when reading back-to-back headlines like these: Security Council OKs Mideast peace deal , and Israel triples troop levels in Lebanon, makes me realize that we are living in an absurdist world where nothing is ever going to make sense again.

And these are the days when things like this, Liquids on a Plane, can elicit a laugh from me (and, I hope, maybe you too). Tomorrow I myself will board a plane, which thankfully I am not doing in the state of California, where:

Governor Schwarzenneger has deployed 300 National Guardswomen and men to California's airports to ensure that if liquid/gel/iPod terrorists escape from a British prison and fly to San Diego (without blowing up the plane), and then get off and start hijacking the entire airport, they can be shot.(Boing-Boing)

It's an interstate flight only, so I'll be able to take my cell phone and laptop, though I'll certainly miss my personal hygiene products, especially my Progest, the natural hormone cream that gets me through life semi-sanely, and can't be easily picked up in the local drugstore. As I'm traveling to a family trainwreck of overwhelming proportion in Rhode Island, personal problems at the moment overshadow global problems and all sinks into a different perspective. Leaving me essentially numb, but still able to laugh. So this post is about passing along some things I have found humorous this morning. A few more: Today's Borowitz Report, Bush Seeks Exit Strategy at Mapquest Vows to Find Most Direct Route from Iraq to U.S., and the Luckovich cartoon at the top of the post.

I'll be out of the blogging loop for an unknown period of time, so I say a temporary farwell: laugh, pray, protest, blog, love everyone you can. Try to keep whatever faith you may have.

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