"There is no spying on Americans."

"We don't have a domestic spying program."

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"I’ve done work with the University of Michigan that tracks eye movement as people look at cartoons. The interesting thing is..."

"... that at that 'get it' moment, when someone understands, the pupil sort of pops like it does for a flashbulb," says Robert Mankoff, the New Yorker cartoon editor.

I also collaborated on research in which we used The New Yorker cartoon caption contest. One of the ideas about humor is that it’s our way of coping with negative feelings. In a control study we found people who were primed with negative emotions, through images of illness and death at a subliminal level, create more and funnier captions than those who were not.

I'm interested in this connection between negative emotions and humor skill, but I hate the New Yorker caption contests so much. I should process my negativity into a funnier closing line for this blog post.

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"Is there a section at the bottom for comments?"

A New Yorker cartoon, pointed out by a reader, who's observed the end of commenting on this blog.

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"Nice resumé, Mr. Hendrix..."

Found on the internet. Sorry, I don't know the cartoonist's name. It was presented the way I'm presenting it here. I can hardly complain, since I'm doing the same, but what else can I do? Found on the internet, like everything else that's merging and melting, flowing out and slithering wildly as they slip away across the internet....

It's that kind of experience.

I set out on a journey, looking for an image of a bad humanoid robot and I ran into that, from out there in the universe, dispensed by Google...



I continued my travels across the universe of the internet... and I never got there....

ADDED: An reader found another version of Hendrix image that identifies the cartoonist as Craig Swanson. There's a URL for his website, but it doesn't work.

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