Question:
At what point does a truly horrific event enter the popular culture landscape in such a way that it becomes socially acceptable to laugh at it?

The JFK assassination has long since become an easy target for merriment.

I think we’ve passed the point where it’s acceptable to mock school shootings… as long as you’re not actually attending K-12.

Some people have a problem with singing chirpy songs while being bled to death in the same manner as a Messiah figure.

9/11 is probably still a bit too… edgy.

Hitler is tossed around casually enough that Howard Dean and George W. Bush have both been compared to him.

On the market right now is a bizarre deriviation of an certain serial killer that you eat as part of an unbalanced diet.

A few hundred years from now, we’ll be choking on Osamiques. Why Osamiques? Because the cutsey “o” endings to mockowords will fall out of fashion… (Does that mean that the French will enjoy some cultural expansion? Nay… I’m thinking more along the lines of the Quebecers…)

Anyway…

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