Rally To Restore Sanity LIVE: Video, Updates From The Jon Stewart Rally In DC

i didn't get to go to the rally; i'm disabled and don't have the funds. i didn't watch it, either, as i was asleep. . .but it'd seem to me that it was a resounding success. Jon's closing speech appears to me, on first glance, to be one of the best i've ever heard, done without notes or teleprompter. he's direct, coherent, rational and nonideological about it. it evokes memories of some other great speeches, but i digress. . .



i've stated elsewhere that comedy is born of tragedy; comedians take bad situations and reveal the absurdity that lies within them. Jon and Stephen are masters of this art, what i call the Mark Twains or Jonathan Swifts of this era.



(and i was especially pleased to see the sign from Calaveras County, which links them to Mark Twain's first published story, 'The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County'.)



you don't have to be a demagogue or poltician to be an effective voice within your community or nation. their efforts at doing both have benefited the nation, which is patriotism, which the late Robert A Heinlein defined as working within the country to make it better.



i've often told people that i wish to make them think and laugh, preferably both. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are masters of doing both. it's my wish that this is NOT the apex of their careers, and that they continue to reach higher and farther in educating and entertaining others. . .
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