"Doctor, my eyes

Tell me what is wrong

Was I unwise to leave them open for so long?"

Holy Walter Cronkite, Batman!

At midday on Capitol Hill, Diogenes lit a lantern,

looking for an honest man.

What They Say:  "We don't trust Hillary."

What They Mean: "We're so cynical we suspect 

Big Bird is a fraud."

There are the unemployed who become

cynical, there are unemployed cynics, 

and there are employed cynics.  All of

 these cynics have one thing in common:  

they don't trust their fellow human beings.

  And since they don't trust their fellow

human beings, they tend to become 

paranoid, because everyone is 

conspiring against them.  Yes,

"cynicism is the smoke that rises

from the ashes of burned-out

dreams."

The stock price of Cynicism reached a new high today when

the Discovery Channel revealed that Captain Kangaroo 

was never actually a captain, that he had padded his resume

 and had never risen above the rank of corporal.

"In the Post-Modern Era, there are no heroes, only villains.

  Like Jesus said,  'A prophet is not without honour, save in 

his own country, and in his own house'.  Take me, for instance."

Living as we do in an extremely cynical age and

 being predisposed as we are to believe the worst

about people, it's easy to understand why

negative campaign ads work.

Jeffrey R. Cox (AKA 'Pro Cynic') Didn't Know Mouth Was

Loaded, Shoots Hole in Pocketbook

Is Jonathan Martin hugging Meghan McCain, or is he

really hugging himself? Your answer will depend on

whether you're as cynical as Jonathan is.