There's a cover article in the Viewpoints section of today's Dallas Morning News, which has the funniest short comic bit I've read in a long time. The article is by Brian C. Anderson, who has written a book called South Park Conservatives which, among other things, talks about the fact that some of today's most obnoxious and outrageous social commentary comes from the Right as opposed to the Left (think Lenny Bruce).

Since there doesn't seem to be a link to the article, I am typing in a routine by comedian Nick DiPaolo who has won two Emmys for his work:

I like the state of Texas because they're giving out the electric chair like it's coupons. They've fried like 30 people in the last two months in Texas. And there's a lady in Texas on TV going: 'We're giving too many people the death penalty.' That's bullshit. More people died from airbags last year in the country than from the death penalty. [To Texas lady:] Would it make you feel better if we put these rapists in a Lexus and drove it into a tree? [In effete voice:] 'It's crual and unusual.' Well, do it more and it won't be so unusual."

Or as Dennis Miller is quoted as saying:

"I'm Left on a lot of things," he explained. "If two gay guys want to get married, I could [not] care less. If a nutcase from overseas wants to blow up their wedding, that's when I'm Right."

Actually, in looking for a good Lenny Bruce link for the section above, I came to a series of quotes. Even though he was known as being "out there", i.e. liberal, he made an observation decades ago that seems to come right off a blog in 2004:

The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.

The more things change....