Jon Stewart — Susan Corso's Blog

Day 97 You Can Lead A Horse to Water; and, Learning to Think

Usually, illogic presented as logic makes me laugh. Like this from one of my Mex Mysteries. Gareth, Mex’s assistant, is speaking, “We’re not going to decide this today, Miss Mex.” High femme, intuitive investigator Mex says, “Why not?” His solemn answer: “It’s matinee day.” They laugh. I smile as I type. However, Mike Pence has just added insult to injury on a call to state governors. “We wouldn’t have these ‘intermittent’ spikes if we weren’t testing so much.” What?! The deep-thinking Philosopher-in-Chief added, “If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any.” My response to that was a playground couplet: Liars, liars everywhere, When will we learn to think?

PandemicSusan CorsoJune 16, 2020metaphysics, coronavirus, COVID-19, #GlobalVaccine, teenagers, Jon Stewart, Think, Risk, vulnerable

Day 96 We Must Start with Why; and, The Revelation of How

Opinion columnist Frank Bruni commented this morning, “The first time I saw President Trump referred to as “Cadet Bone Spurs” I laughed, the second time I smiled and the third time I cringed. It’s an apt slur, but it lumps him together with all the other politicians whose military huzzahs contradict their personal histories and whose insult to our men and women in uniform can be reduced to dodging the draft.” David Marchese has a long interview with comedian and social commentator Jon Stewart in The Magazine. It’s called “Jon Stewart is Back to Weigh In;” full disclosure, he has a film coming out. When he spear-headed The Daily Show, Jon Stewart could reliably make me laugh about things that I didn’t think were funny. That’s talent, but it’s more than that. It’s smart talent. Jon Stewart has always been smart. Now I think he’s crossed over into wisdom.

PandemicSusan CorsoJune 15, 2020metaphysics, coronavirus, COVID-19, #GlobalVaccine, teenagers, Jon Stewart, Senator Cory Booker