Hats off to the Grey Lady on this wonderful Friday morning. Before we'd even had a chance to down our morning coffee and quaaludes – yeah, we're old school – the Times already slammed us with an amusing Then vs. Now retrospective, with Bruce Handy offering glib social commentary disguised as actual humor. Don't we have The Funny Pages for that?

Highlights include presidential jokes:

Seventy-fifth anniversary of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s election at the height of the Great Depression as the 32nd president of the United States (Nov. 8, 1932).

Today’s perspective: Nostalgia for era when presidents had big, bold, risky ideas that mostly worked out O.K.

Drug humor:

20th anniversary of Prozac’s introduction in the United States (Dec. 29, 1987).

Today’s perspective: Recent holiday gatherings went unusually well, don’t you think?

And even a sly little Britney Spears (or is it Paris Hilton?) reference:

10th anniversary of Princess Diana’s death in a Paris car crash (Aug. 31, 1997).

Today’s perspective: Continuing affection for princess who, despite being mercilessly hounded by paparazzi, always managed to keep her underwear on in public.

Of course, our personal favorite is the dramatic conlusion.

5th anniversary of President Bush’s “Axis of Evil” speech (Jan. 29, 2002).

Today’s perspective: When Kim Jong-Il is brought before an international tribunal, no taunting him about his hair, O.K.?

Ahh, not even a full week after "You" leaked the tape of Saddam Hussein's execution, and we've already moved on from lamenting the brutality of cruel and ruthless dictators to making fun of their 'dos.