As the late, great A.J. Liebling pointed out, Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one. Blogging and online journalism has given new meaning to this.

1/2 a century young Assie Parish seems to have a knack for sinning against great Trot/stans (smile)

Just because you swallowed a fucking dictionary when you were about 15 doesn't give you the right to pour a bucket of shit over the rest of us...
The answer is that the sense of humour comes from a libertarian understanding of the world. Statists see a world of oppression and pain, and get depressed because of global warming and evil multinationals. Libertarians see the world in a different way, seeing the bad in the world, but also seeing the great advances that humankind has experienced over the past few hundred years. They have greater confidence in humanity, progress and the future. So they can afford to not take life completely seriously. The sense of humour is profoundly libertarian.
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