Josh Marshall makes a funny about the Democratic nomination race.

Another from the Real Simple files. What makes me laugh? I laugh at things that are clever, and I laugh at things that are dark. Examples:

What's brown and sticky? A stick!

That one always gets me. It's the perfect joke. I've taught it to my son (who is five) and he likes it, too. Better, he repeats it. When he starts getting into poop jokes, he's going to love me even more. It's puerile (Ding! $10!) and it's clever ('cause a stick is stick-y, yes?) and it's easy to remember, which is my real problem with jokes.

As for things that are dark... One of my favorite pins (back when it was fashionable to wear pins... the eighties?) has the symbols from a deck of cards on it. It says:

I (heart) my dog.
I (spade) my dog.
I (club) my dog.
My dog is dead.

It is miserably dark and demented, and yet, even just typing it out now, I can't help but grin. I love it because it plays on the whole "I heart you" crap, by taking it to its logical conclusion, it shocks people, and it is just so over the top. Ha! See, I'm laughing right now.

Sigh.

What makes you laugh?

I love just about everything that Matthew Baldwin writes, but this is funny stuff. Like, so funny I had to read it out loud to my wife, driving her off to bed. Laugh out loud funny. Here you go: Matt Baldwin's Slacker's Guide to Christmas Presents (not the real title, because I'm lazy).