Sure it is juvenile and a bit foolish, like drawing a mustache on a billboard face, but … I just couldn’t write a GMD diary about Senator Lindsey Graham violating his own Senate committee rules to railroad a bill (one that will help escalate the latest horrors ICE is perpetrating on immigrant families seeking asylum) to a vote. The bill will extend the time immigrant children can be held from a court-ordered 20 days to 100 days.  I even made an attempt to break my block by scribbling about a couple other issues, such as Trump’s barrage of racist twitter-rants. I even failed to engage over GOP Senate Majority Leader McConnell’s rage at “Moscow Mitch”, his new nickname … just couldn’t do that either.

So I did what I could do — used photo-shop and a Leningrad Cowboy to mock Donald’s comb-over and scowl. And studies have found that humor was an effective coping mechanism with all levels of stress.  In fact one study on former prisoners of war found they used humor as: “[…] a way of fighting back and taking control. By defining humor as an element of communication and by thinking of resilience as a communication phenomenon, the links between humor and resilience become more apparent.

At least for a half hour or so I felt better. Now how can I dig an escape tunnel out of the Trump era into the future?