Who gets it?

Not the helium but the humor.
Rep. Grayson has a sense of humor and deals with serious issues on Bill Maher's RealTime.

[Back in the Box:(my comment forestalled by login difficulties)

I believe (Jiu Jitsu in Afghanistan) does fit into his "despise"(d) "left-right boxes"(metaphor) more than the writer understands. And also less into the martial arts metaphor than he also understands. To me, there is difficulty equating(or rather comparing) war with diplomacy and yet there is also an intelligence factor that differs. To mix boxes (or analogies might be better), you have Rumsfeldian intelligence and then there is what is really out there * . War obviously relies more on secrecy, while diplomacy relies more on openness, however you will still have those that play a war game, whether in or out of the box or whether they are with us or against us.

This is more than self-fulfilling loopiness.]

* potential inconcatenation** of intelligence and fear mongering or not being as out of the box or martial artistic as thought

** or is it deconcatenation***, but math and logic aside?

*** or unstrung Tao of Zen (in google we coin... a new word and failed)
[Third times a charm? Unconcatenation not.