I love stand-up comedy. Like anything else in life, it comes in good and bad varieties. Tonight, while confined to my couch or my computer chair, I came across a good bunch of the stuff. It's amazing how a good comedian can shine new light on things that never seem to stand out in our collective mind. Anyone can find the simple ironies of air travel or TV reruns, but it takes a greater mental power to tie together completely unrelated places and events in a way that forces the listener to laugh hysterically. A new hero of mine is Lewis Black, a sort of tamer version of Bill Hicks. All the crude language, all the drug references, but much less of an edge in general. No religion, abortion, the kinds of issues that have never gotten a comedian anywhere with the exception of Hicks. Anyway, this is the guy you see on the Daily Show every week ranting about the oddities of human stupidity. His full routine is much the same but laden with a lot more Carlin-esque language. Go find and listen.