That's all not to mention that 60% of US prisoners are there for so-called crimes which involve no dishonesty or violence. Drug laws in the US are a sad, unfunny joke.

I'm not sure how that relates to programming, though, except that certain programming languages are sad, unfunny jokes, too. I won't start a flame war by naming them, and I'm sure everyone has their own favorites to name to the category anyway. Suffice it to say that Perl isn't a joke and Intercal I find funny.