Friday, June 15, 2012  The Cancer Joke  I might get some flack
for this, but, I have to be honest: I really hate the current
campaign for breast cancer awareness. (Across the globe, readers
label me as an insensitive ass and click off of my page.) The
trend, at least here in America, is in two phrases: “I Love
Boobies” and “Save the Ta-Tas.” You see these slogans on bumper
stickers and T-shirts and rubber bracelets. Bad ideas, if you
ask me. The first problem is that there is nothing funny about
cancer. Now, let me put up a hand here to stop those who would
say: “People need to laugh -- especially people who have cancer.
What’s wrong with a sense of humor when it comes to a horrible
disease?”   Well, there’s nothing wrong with laughing when you
have cancer. In fact, let me be up-front about this: I am a
cancer survivor. Laughing was great medicine when I was fighting
my fight, but there is no joke in cancer, itself -- trust me. If
I wanted to laugh, it would have been at Bugs Bunny cartoons,
not at cancer. It