for some reason, it strikes me that laughter is not the proper response to the news. oh, i've tried--really tried--to be humorous over these last 14 hours or so, but i hope i've said something more than just punchlines. i really like jon stewart, but i can't help but feel that he's become constrained by 'the daily show.'

i'm just thinking about the average 'daily show' audience member, and what he or she is thinking when they see mike brown being lampooned. does laughing at him put them at some remove from the subject, or does it bring them closer? do they think "oh, jon stewart will take care of him" or "how am i implicated in all of this?" (or, worst of all--as much, though, as we'd like to forget him--who's mike brown? my thinking is closer to the former, but i'd love to think otherwise and encourage all attempts to change my mind.

btw, sam jackson is on. (one can't help but feel that the political content comes to a crashing halt, first, w/ the skit, and then, unless the s/he is political, w/ the guest.)

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