Bush: “I’m like a lot of Americans that say, ‘Well, if [the fake WMD intelligence] wasn’t right in Iraq, how do you know it’s right in Iran.’” Bush is always good for a chuckle.

From Kurt Vonnegut’s A Man without a Country: “True enough, there are such things as laughless jokes, what Freud called gallows humor. There are real-life situations so hopeless that no relief is imaginable.”