LEFTY BLOGGERS HUMOURLESS?

If Tim Blair comes up in the conversation, yes:

Also from the Telegraph, a piece by Malcom Farr, which I’ll link without comment. Hat tip, Surfdom.

Lefty academics take themselves so seriously.

Update: commenting at John Quiggin's (linked above), David Tiley explains why lefty bloggers aren't funny:

... because it is hard work and requires a rare skill.

Yep. that just about sums it up. And anyway, RWDBs aren't really funny:

What passes for funny in the Right is mostly just insult. Yer mother wears army boots. Yok Yok. Sometimes under a mantle of a pompous and easily concocted persona. “The Left, once again at its senile and self-defeating best..” Yok, yok again..

I'll have to remember that "army boots" thing.

Update II: commenter Nabakov, considered quite the wag by his fellow lefties, has his say – also at Quiggin's – on the left vs right humour debate:

As for this whole right wingers are funnier thing thing, it seems they trot it out every 12 months or so, along with the “our chicks are sexier” and “South Park kool kidz rule” riffs. And every time they do, it smells more and like they’re trying to convince themselves more than anyone else – specially now as so many of their talismans and shibboleths from the Iraq war is good to steely-eyed rocketman Bush is in control to Howard’s got his finger on the nation’s pulse are all turning in front of their eyes to week-old kitty litter.

I mean if you are really funny, sexy or cool, you don’t brag about it. You just are. Otherwise you just sound like a teenager desperate to convince yer mates you’re not a virgin.

Hey, everybody has an off day now and then.