I'm a believer it should be rewritten: "It only hurts when I can't laugh."

For me laughter is the best therapy for difficult times. Laughter lightens up my emotional load-then swoops in as "enlightenment aid"-- helping me to see ways out of supposedly blocked situations.

I know there are many people who might say today's financial crisis is no laughing matter -- that there's absolutely nothing funny about our regulatory failures, sovereign defaults,...