Is your Bull-Dar working? The patented Verbal Jazz Bullshit Detection System, or Bull-Dar, has been running on overload now that the Democratic primary is over (for all intents and purposes and pending the actual doling out of the number of delegates needed to win the nomination), and the general election campaign is in full swing. As a public service, Verbal Jazz urges caution to those would actively seek out and listen to politicians between now and November 2: TV ads will seek to portray Mr. Kerry and Mr. Bush as either the greatest leader (since "politician" will be defined as an obscene term by a future Constitutional amendment) since (pick one) Jack "Ask not what your country can do" Kennedy or Ronnie "Morning in America" Reagan while portraying the other as the worst threat to national security since (pick one) Osama bin Laden or whomever gave us that information about Weapons of Mass Destruction. Don't say you were not warned.

Apparently children under eight do not possess a Bull-Dar, thus making marketing more effective on them. This was according to an article I read recently. Children are more likely to view commercials as the rest of us are to view news: without skepticism. Among those who have worked with children, who has not had to deal with the negative effects of such marketing? If Mickey Mouse appears on it then it must be good, right? And I want it, I want it, I want it!

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