Laughing about the NSA?

Screen capture from getprsm.com

I saw the reference to to the very funny getprsm.com site on someone's Facebook page. Given the subject matter thereof, I worried a little about mentioning my source... and finally didn't. They already know, I suppose, but why push it?

When Mr. Snowden made undeniably public what had so long been assumed (and feared) there were the inevitable editorial cartoons. Messrs. Luckovich and Oliphant, for example, weighed in before the end of July.

But editorial cartoonists are expected to have pungent opinions on any given day. They have new opinions, on different matters, just about every day.

But the revelations about the NSA weren't just any old story. It bothers a lot of us on a fundamental level. This can be illustrated in the way in which the story came up in far less political comics, like Dilbert and Dustin.

For those of us old enough to remember when the taking of an oath to preserve and defend the Constitution of the United States was a solemn promise to adhere to the letter and spirit of the document, this is one of those we-have-to-laugh-to-keep-from-crying stories. I thought this last cartoon, from a web comic called Doghouse Diaries, was particularly amusing.

But -- just in case someone in authority is thinking about it -- this sort of thing wouldn't make anything better as far as I'm concerned.