If you picture America’s Founding Fathers as solemn men with stern faces and powdered wigs, you’re getting only half the story. In reality, these figures spent much of their lives writing impassioned letters, arguing politics, insulting rivals, exaggerating grievances, and trying to outwit one another in prose.  Humor naturally slipped into their writing, sometimes intentionally and sometimes because sarcasm can be easily employed against those who annoy us. Thomas Jefferson once argued that “ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.”  George Washington, for one, was known to occasionally speak his ...Read More