This phenomenon seems to date back to the near impeachment of Richard Nixon and has slowly insinuated itself throughout The Gulf War, the impeachment of President Clinton, and the "war on terror." It has injected folks with seriosus, which can be very catching. No fun in impeachments and arguments over parsing words and marital and political gains. And it's been going on for over a year. No fun will be restored because we will continually hear all about Ken Starr and the House Managers and bipartisan politics, Karl Rove (who is our prime suspect!), not to mention impending indictments of peripheral folks, none of which is fun or funny or amusing--not even in the cynical sense.

Normally fun people are way too serious. Now they worry, worry, worry about the Y2K bug, the Second Coming, or the future of political parties. Ugh! Our air and water are still not clean, in spite of low unemployment. Parents are still abusing their children; crime is still too high; and health insurance makes people sick. And GWB seriously believes we should invest Social Security in the stock market! (Huh?)

I could enumerate all the serious matters that occupy people's attention, but to what end? In itself, that is not fun. I did mention, however, I know of one person who is having fun. My suspicion is that this single person is sapping all the fun from the rest of the world.

His name is "Dave."

Dave has disrupted the delicate equilibrium between stoicism and goofiness by gathering all the natural fun in the world and using it for himself. At the rate in which he is gathering all the fun in the world, soon only his jolly self will be acting goofy, leaving little or no goofiness for anyone else.

This cannot be.

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