I’m so out of touch, news-wise. It wasn’t always like that; when I used to have the 45 mile commute I’d listen to the cbs newsradio for a good portion of the drive home before switching back to kroq. I actually hadn’t heard about the space shuttle until close to 10 at night. I must’ve been somewhere between 3 and 5 years old, but one time my family drove out to the desert to see the Columbia land. It wasn’t all that amazing, just like watching a plane land, but it was still fucking cool because that plane had been in space. Watching the news talk about the accident made me feel kind of old, because they brought up when the Challenger blew up and how it was 17 years ago. It just kind of wierded me out because I remember when it happened, and holy crap, where did that 17 years go? Not that I’d want to go back to being a kid, mind you, just wow. 17 years. And it's just very sad.

As I sat on the couch I started wondering… when does the black comedy, people trying to deal with it by laughing start? You know what I’m talking about; there were some horrible jokes that came out of the Challenger explosion. I’m not gonna type them here because I’m classy and sum shit. I won’t leave you hanging, though, here are a couple of my favorite blind jokes, which have only gotten funnier since the left eye decided to check out.

Q – Why don’t blind people sky dive?
A – It scares the hell out of the dog.

A man was working the cash register at a small hardware store. The door opens, and a blind guy comes in with his seeing-eye dog. The cashier thinks for a second, should he offer assistance right away? Or would the blind man be offended by the offer? He decided to just keep an eye on the customer and see how he did on his own. They walked to the center of the store, and as the cashier looked on in horror the blind man picked up his dog by the leash and started swinging him around his head. “SIR, CAN I HELP YOU!?!?” the panicked employee asked.

The blind man calmly replied, “No thanks, I’m just looking around.”