A new Facebook friend from Belgium (not otherwise known to me) has as her motto on the site a quotation from the Belle Epoque writer Alphonse Allais (also previously unknown to me):
Les gens qui ne rient jamais ne sont pas des gens serieux.
[People who never laugh aren't serious people.]
Could there be a better comment on our current humorless, un-serious politics?
A few Found Art artists have observed something a bit similar - If you’re not serious, you can’t afford to be funny! Serious people are the most funny. Clowns are the most serious people on the planet!
Jon Stewart and Stephen Tyrone Colbert (three names, like an assassin) are, thus, the demi-gods of political punditry.
Brilliant quote - but am I perhaps missing the laugh about why it’s filed under “Affordable Care Act”?
Nope. Just a typo. Fixed now.