Laughter

Dalton's column in the Chattanooga Times Free Press this morning is about teaching children to laugh. What a great goal. How wonderful it would be if we could not only laugh, but laugh at ourselves. I can't seem to get a link to his entire column, but I'll copy some exerpts here. It's just too good!

(T)he best way to diagnose a healthy person is to see if they can laugh good-naturedly at themselves.

Never put a man in a position of power if he takes himself too seriously. He will do you great harm.

Dalton quotes a fellow musician, Al Harvey, about his philosophy and humor: "There's a time for glee and a time for woe, a time to peacock and a time to lay low, and it's up to you to know what time it is".
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Just to prove the point, I will quote a story from the Associated Press as printed in our paper this morning.

Out of the Frying Pan, into the fire

Crossville, TN - A Cumberland County couple was arrested and chargd with whacking each other with a frying pan.

Heather and Samuel Newcome are both charged with domestic assault. They told Sheriff's Deputy Timothy Tutor las week that they got into an argument and hit each other with the cookware.

"Both parties had injuries consistent with both of their stories," Tutor says in his report.

Other family members got involved in the fray as well and apparently came to blows, but none decided to file charges.

This is the article in its entirety. No mention was made as to whether or not anybody was actually cooking with the frying pan in question at the time. As Molly Ivins used to say: "I couldn't make this stuff up."

Today's photo is a cartoon from Google Images.