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Dark Humor: 2001

10 Curated Routines
1. Post-9/11 Dark
Terrorism/Dark

"The world changed today. Now we have to take our shoes off at the airport and be terrified of box cutters. It’s nice to know the most powerful nation on earth can be brought to a halt by office supplies."

2. Gallows Humor
Geopolitics/Dark

"I asked my travel agent for a destination where people don’t hate Americans. He gave me a ticket to the moon, but told me the reception was terrible."

3. Standard Satire
Internet/Cynicism

"Wikipedia was launched. Finally, a place where anyone can write whatever they want and it becomes the truth until someone else with more free time changes it."

4. Medical Wit
Health/Politics

"I told my doctor I was feeling patriotic. He said, "That’s just your blood pressure rising because of the news. Take two of these and stop watching CNN.""

5. Suburban Dark
Fear/Economics

"My neighbor is building a "safe room." I told him the only safe room in this neighborhood is the one where the mortgage is already paid off."

6. Era One-Liner
Movies/Escapism

"Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings both started. It’s a great year for fantasy; we really needed a world where the problems could be solved with a magic stick instead of a drone."

7. Charles Addams Style
Modern Misanthropy

"I like to keep my friends close and my enemies in the "Unsubscribe" folder."

8. Existentialism
Nihilism

"We are all just stardust. But mostly the kind of stardust that gets swept under the rug and forgotten."

9. Dark Wit
TSA/Dark

"If you want to make God laugh, tell Him you’re planning on traveling with just a carry-on."

10. Economic Dark
Corporate Greed

"The Enron scandal broke. It’s a heartwarming story about how to make billions of dollars disappear faster than a politician's integrity during an election year."

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