Let’s talk more about fafblog. Sure I think fafblog is funny. Above all, I think fafblog is funny (when it’s not about pie, anyway). But I think that it’s worth a little deeper analysis. So I’m gonna.

By being the link between Bush administration ‘policy’ and absurdism, fafblog serves two purposes: first, it cuts through the moving target blur of half-justifications and earnestly posited non-sequiturs to assure us all of our sanity in that yes, the US executive’s statements and actions really are as grotesquely bizarre as we keep thinking they are. Second, it makes it a little easier to cope with the whole thing by restoring a sense of humour.

It’s a natural synergy: we need a sense of humour to prevail, even more so when things are really bad, as an essential link to our humanity, and the Bush administration observed at a high level is a fertile generator of abusrdity. Thus, fafblog’s art is wresting that absurdity out of the inexpert hands of the press corps, who seem too embarassed to report on it seriously and too professional to report on it critically, and put it into the hands of Fafnir, who polishes it against his shirt to wipe off any residue and gives it us to eat and feel a little renewed. Peter Ustinov said in his mid-life autobiography that to him laughter had always seemed the most civilized sound in the world. If we want to retain our civility and our civilization, who better to laugh at than the modern US executive branch? Ha ha ha US Administration. Ha ha ha.