On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 9:13 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > There are lots of jokes to be made about this, I have been making some > myself. But also true that lots of people are going to be hurt pretty bad > by this (one example, WIC payments will be suspended after a week or so). > > This is completely not a shot at PG, but I have found absolutely nothing funny about this, and generally have responded with blank stares when people try to make a joke about it because of not just the reasons noted above (and the fact I have a friend who is now on furlough with State), but because the underlying issue is too serious and underdiscussed to "earn" the right to make a joke (which, interestingly, is the same reason I generally didn't laugh when people talk about the sequester "not making a difference" or when people making global warming weather jokes when it gets cold/hot). It's not that you *can't* make jokes about it: they just better be about the underlying problem/issue and not a gross oversimplification.
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