Darryl Mockridge

Why God Gave Us Guns Darryl Mockridge

Recently, I read somewhere that Calvin Trillin once said (something like): 'The problem with writing satire in America, is that it's difficult to invent something so completely bizarre that it might not actually occur before what you've written is published.' That fear has haunted me since the day I began work on this piece. Though, clearly, whoever is grinding out the idiocy these days doesn't need any help from me. But, it is becoming more difficult to find humor in the fact that a great nation is being held hostage by a tiny handful of hyper-sensitive lamebrains, who have gotten themselves into the position where what they say is taken seriously rather than ridiculed loudly, laughed at openly, dismissed entirely, and quickly forgotten. When it comes to politics, of course most of us prefer dreaming to almost anything reality might offer, but, it's time to wake up.