Crime & Federalism

I don't watch John Steward or Stephen Colbert, although I unfortunately am aware of their body of work.  In reading about their Rally to Restore Sanity, I couldn't help but be overwhelmed with boredom:

"It's a perfect demographic sampling of the American people," Stewart cracked to a crowd filled with mostly younger whites. 

That explains it.  I am a racist: I generally can't tolerate white people.  Let's talk about wine and political correctness, and the New Yorker. 

And here's the music they listen to:

Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow also performed, singing if "I can't change the world to make it better, the least I can do is care."

Are you fucking serious? They are, which is why the rally is a giant black hole of irony.

Boring whites have re-defined irony.  In the white view, it doesn't mean a shock.  Irony requires nuance, thought, and surprise.  Boring whites lack the psychological robustness to process irony. 

And so irony has become satire.  Insulting the one or two clever among them, the satire is made obvious.  There is no punchline, as a punchline presupposes that the audience has the capacity to get the joke.  The modern ironist explains the joke.

The picture is an example of white irony.  "Isn't it ironic that, at a rally mocking the Tea Party, I am wearing American flag clothing? Because that's what Tea Party people wear!  We are mocking them by embracing them! We are using their tools of oppression to oppress!  OMG aren't we so fucking clever!"

While the rally is based on the white version of irony, their choice of music immediately shows that they are not destroying paradigms by mocking them: They are the paradigm. They don't make jokes: They are jokes.  Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow?  QED.

Allow me to share some good music.  This would be the Crime & Federalism theme song:

Here is the best poetry you will ever hear set to music:

The is a story about the wages of sin, and it contains a legitimate example of irony:

Stop being so fucking boring.