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The federal government’s partial shutdown is, like the fiscal cliff before it, being painted in some quarters as an apocalypse. The tenor of most news coverage runs like this:
But gloom begets something far more powerful: humor. Here’s a sample:
The United States of America (1787-2013) came to a swift and sudden end last night as the government shut down. The nation which had survived Pearl Harbor, the War of 1812 and Jimmy Carter ceased to exist.
The savage population, which had only been kept in line through a policy of rigorous gun
confiscations, food stamps and Green Energy programs unleashed its pent up rage in a spree of riots, looting and mass murder that had only previously been encountered in Somalia.
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