The Verbal Jazz Highlights and Low Notes of the Week
Does low carb mean cutting out carbonation or carburetors?
1. We're NOT going to California, or anywhere else, after all, and we blew all your money: Howard Dean called it quits on Wednesday after his all or nothing pledge in Wisconsin turned out to be, well, nothing. Verbal Jazz would liken a donation to the Dean campaign (or Kucinich or Sharpton) as the equivalent of a lottery bet: the odds are stacked against you, but you believe you can win. The Mother of Verbal Jazz (Jazzmom?) likes to play the lottery, she has not won ONE MILLION yet. Neither has Verbal Jazz, although he hardly ever plays.
2. Distractions, who needs...hey are those lesbians kissing? Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank has referred to the current issuance of gay marriage licenses in San Francisco a "distraction." Frank, being a homosexual, was coming from a more expansive view that holds a direct refutation (and flaunting of such refutation) of the law automatically diminishes the effect that those getting married in San Francisco are trying to achieve. In other words, Frank is telling them to pick their battles. Laura Bush called gay marriages "Yucky" or something to that effect. Actually, that may have been something the president said behind closed doors.
3. Just like Athens and Sparta, although the ramifications are much greater: The Red Sox (Athens) v. Yankees (Sparta) has set up a bipolar system of power in the American league, although the melodrama has taken on the quality of Shakespearean drama; witness the following soliloquy:
A-ROD: Friends, teammates, baseball scribes, lend me your ears
I come not to play baseball, but to win
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows
Of last place, while getting paid, or to make one last
Attempt for a World Series Ring.
The Quality of mercy is third base, while Jeter boots another ball
And the Red Sox hang in...
With Red Sox owner (principle owner, Verbal Jazz is aware) sniping, and Steinbrenner telling him to calm down, the time is right for the Devil Rays to win the AL East.
4. Number one search item of the week: Atkins autopsy: Verbal Jazz is having a bagel with a rich bread spread, a side of pretzels with his pasta and an unnamed potato side dish as he contemplates the number one search engine item of the week.
5. Angry smokers: A recent study found that those who are easy to anger may be especially susceptible to nicotine. In other words hostile and aggressive people have a greater tendency to smoke. Since one could see cigarette smoke as an assault on those in proximity to it, this makes perfect sense. Now Verbal Jazz has angered at least one half of his audience. The other person who reads this may keep doing so.
6. Finally, just a thought: Why do those who argue for free markets argue for tort reform? Isn't that just letting the judge or jury act as the "market?"
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Does low carb mean cutting out carbonation or carburetors?
1. We're NOT going to California, or anywhere else, after all, and we blew all your money: Howard Dean called it quits on Wednesday after his all or nothing pledge in Wisconsin turned out to be, well, nothing. Verbal Jazz would liken a donation to the Dean campaign (or Kucinich or Sharpton) as the equivalent of a lottery bet: the odds are stacked against you, but you believe you can win. The Mother of Verbal Jazz (Jazzmom?) likes to play the lottery, she has not won ONE MILLION yet. Neither has Verbal Jazz, although he hardly ever plays.
2. Distractions, who needs...hey are those lesbians kissing? Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank has referred to the current issuance of gay marriage licenses in San Francisco a "distraction." Frank, being a homosexual, was coming from a more expansive view that holds a direct refutation (and flaunting of such refutation) of the law automatically diminishes the effect that those getting married in San Francisco are trying to achieve. In other words, Frank is telling them to pick their battles. Laura Bush called gay marriages "Yucky" or something to that effect. Actually, that may have been something the president said behind closed doors.
3. Just like Athens and Sparta, although the ramifications are much greater: The Red Sox (Athens) v. Yankees (Sparta) has set up a bipolar system of power in the American league, although the melodrama has taken on the quality of Shakespearean drama; witness the following soliloquy:
A-ROD: Friends, teammates, baseball scribes, lend me your ears
I come not to play baseball, but to win
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows
Of last place, while getting paid, or to make one last
Attempt for a World Series Ring.
The Quality of mercy is third base, while Jeter boots another ball
And the Red Sox hang in...
With Red Sox owner (principle owner, Verbal Jazz is aware) sniping, and Steinbrenner telling him to calm down, the time is right for the Devil Rays to win the AL East.
4. Number one search item of the week: Atkins autopsy: Verbal Jazz is having a bagel with a rich bread spread, a side of pretzels with his pasta and an unnamed potato side dish as he contemplates the number one search engine item of the week.
5. Angry smokers: A recent study found that those who are easy to anger may be especially susceptible to nicotine. In other words hostile and aggressive people have a greater tendency to smoke. Since one could see cigarette smoke as an assault on those in proximity to it, this makes perfect sense. Now Verbal Jazz has angered at least one half of his audience. The other person who reads this may keep doing so.
6. Finally, just a thought: Why do those who argue for free markets argue for tort reform? Isn't that just letting the judge or jury act as the "market?"
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