The Latest Louie

The show just gets better and better. In the latest episode Louie takes on the airlines and the absurd security policies. Trying to bring personal lubricant on the plane, he asks a question we should all ask when told it would have been fine in checked luggage: If the substance is so dangerous in a carry-on, why let it on the plane at all? This is the value of good writing and sharp jokes - we laugh and think at the same time. While simple jokes may have their place at times, give me the thinking man's joke. It is basically an animated political cartoon. Americans are starting to understand Russian humor where you make the best of a crazy and unthinking bureaucracy. Fear has made us dumb, yet such humor shows we still have a chance to get through this period. Slate magazine calls him an "existential hero," stating "having meditated on the world's absurd injustices, he greets them with absurdity in kind."  Go Louie!