I'm the nervous giggler type.
I also feel that it is a quintessentially American thing to make light when the darkness was thickest. I was an absolute connoisseur of the awful wonderful jokes folks wouldmake in the wake of disasters, like Chernobyl or Pan Am flight whatever or ... or.
When 9/11 happened and there was not one sick defusing joke to be found ... that is the day I figured the bastards won. Until then, we had the capacity to be bigger than all that. I lament that we didn't stay with the program, as ridicule is a wonderful way to rob the bastards of their effectiveness. My opinion. cn