The botched joke
Kerry’s allegedly botched joke made me think of an old joke:
A visibly upset woman ran into a friend. He asked her what was wrong.
“Oh, my God! I was having lunch with my mother,” she said, “and I made the worst Freudian slip. I meant to say ‘Please pass the butter.’ What slipped out, though, was ‘You miserable woman. You ruined my life!'”