Many commentators have expressed concern that many college students use these comedic programs as the sole source of their news. Rather than concern, we may wish to applaud the discretion of such youth. They recognize several important facts.
We should never become so important that we lose the ability to laugh at ourselves.
There are few universal truths.
The greater the purported certainty of a claim, the less likely it is actual certain.
There are always more than one side to every position. One of the best ways to understand a position is to evaluate the point in which it becomes absurd.
This country is currently facing one of the greatest economic crisis of our lifetimes. Unemployment is rapidly increasing. Bankruptcies and foreclosures have dramatically increased. Our trade deficit for the has caused the transfer of core assets of this country for decades. Our budget deficit has grown exponentially. Our ability to fund any government function can exist only if China continues to buy our debt. China of course is our primary economic and military rival. In this crisis Democrats and Republicans both assert the need for bipartisan solutions. When forced to debate the issues, however, both elected leaders of both parties resorted to party line votes with finger pointing across the aisle that the other was not willing to share their toys. When such serious leadership seems to have such limitations, maybe common sense suggests that we listen to our comics.
