Monday, March 27, 2006

well, i tried

there's a joke buried in this headline:
Bush Calls for 'Civil' Immigration Debate
at least there is if your mind has been poisoned by the law and you're not all that attached to the concept of your jokes being funny.

y'see, the american legal system has two parts, civil and criminal. currently immigration offenses are civil, but bush's bill would make being an illegal alien a felony, i.e. criminal.

get it? bush's bill makes this whole thing "criminal" even as he's calling for it to be "civil." har-dee har har.

or something like that. there's a funny line in there somewhere. but alas even my vast powers of making lame jokes seems to be failing me now.