Verbal Jazz Highlights and Low Notes of the Week
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Verbal Jazz officially has a new hobby: trying to become the most accidentally photographed person in the world. The idea is to get to a tourist trap and inconspicuously situate yourself in the background as a group of tourists is taking a picture. It works best with disposable cameras or with people who seem to have no use for focus. So, if you have taken a picture in Boston recently and noticed someone staring off into space in the background...you probably saw me.
This has also been an exciting week for the Supremes: they heard arguments regarding the Secret Agent Veep's Secret Energy Cabal AND on whether the detainees being held in Guantanamo Bay as "enemy combatants" are entitled to due process in order to determine whether or not they are criminals. If Cheney has nothing to hide then let's see who was at the meeting of the Secret Energy Cabal. Aye, there's the rub, the Secret Energy Cabal was designed to be secret so that Cheney could get unfiltered information with regard to energy policy. See the vicious circle, yet? It's secret because it needs to be yet if you have nothing to hide why should it be secret? Now, if those "enemy combatants" are guilty, wouldn't a trial bear that out? Or is there really not enough evidence to hold these people prisoner? Vicious circle two: if we bring these people to trial, then we hold them to be criminals, not soldiers in a "war on terror," unless, of course they are acquitted. Now where in the world is the country called "terror" located?"
On a more serious note, there has been a good deal of talk this week about Pat Tillman, the former Arizona Cardinals (football) player who left a few million on the table to go fight in Afghanistan after 9/11. Tillman died this past week and never ever wanted to be a "story," even going so far as to shun all interviews. Verbal Jazz even had a joke that fighting in a war would be better than playing for the Cardinals (for non-football fans: the Cardinals suck). Whatever one's views of the wars we have waged since 9/11, the fact that an athlete gave up millions of dollars in order to follow his convictions speaks volumes of the type of character that person is. Many other folks in the armed forces do not have to choose between a few million dollars to run around on a football field and their personal convictions.
That said, here is the matter at hand:
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The Verbal Jazz Highlights and Low Notes
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* You can say mo-fo, you just can't write it out (April 23)
* Because we need to maintain the illusion that no one dies in a war (April 23)
* Every day I thank god for small victories (April 26)
* Visual Jazz: Verbal Jazz does an ad for the Bush Campaign (April 26)
* Denying Kerry (April 27)
* Weather threatens to dampen Kerry campaign: satire (April 28)
* Comcast decided not to run that Mickey Mouse company after all (April 29)
* Bush and Cheney to debut song and dance (April 29)
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Verbal Jazz officially has a new hobby: trying to become the most accidentally photographed person in the world. The idea is to get to a tourist trap and inconspicuously situate yourself in the background as a group of tourists is taking a picture. It works best with disposable cameras or with people who seem to have no use for focus. So, if you have taken a picture in Boston recently and noticed someone staring off into space in the background...you probably saw me.
This has also been an exciting week for the Supremes: they heard arguments regarding the Secret Agent Veep's Secret Energy Cabal AND on whether the detainees being held in Guantanamo Bay as "enemy combatants" are entitled to due process in order to determine whether or not they are criminals. If Cheney has nothing to hide then let's see who was at the meeting of the Secret Energy Cabal. Aye, there's the rub, the Secret Energy Cabal was designed to be secret so that Cheney could get unfiltered information with regard to energy policy. See the vicious circle, yet? It's secret because it needs to be yet if you have nothing to hide why should it be secret? Now, if those "enemy combatants" are guilty, wouldn't a trial bear that out? Or is there really not enough evidence to hold these people prisoner? Vicious circle two: if we bring these people to trial, then we hold them to be criminals, not soldiers in a "war on terror," unless, of course they are acquitted. Now where in the world is the country called "terror" located?"
On a more serious note, there has been a good deal of talk this week about Pat Tillman, the former Arizona Cardinals (football) player who left a few million on the table to go fight in Afghanistan after 9/11. Tillman died this past week and never ever wanted to be a "story," even going so far as to shun all interviews. Verbal Jazz even had a joke that fighting in a war would be better than playing for the Cardinals (for non-football fans: the Cardinals suck). Whatever one's views of the wars we have waged since 9/11, the fact that an athlete gave up millions of dollars in order to follow his convictions speaks volumes of the type of character that person is. Many other folks in the armed forces do not have to choose between a few million dollars to run around on a football field and their personal convictions.
That said, here is the matter at hand:
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The Verbal Jazz Highlights and Low Notes
http://www.verbaljazz.com
* You can say mo-fo, you just can't write it out (April 23)
* Because we need to maintain the illusion that no one dies in a war (April 23)
* Every day I thank god for small victories (April 26)
* Visual Jazz: Verbal Jazz does an ad for the Bush Campaign (April 26)
* Denying Kerry (April 27)
* Weather threatens to dampen Kerry campaign: satire (April 28)
* Comcast decided not to run that Mickey Mouse company after all (April 29)
* Bush and Cheney to debut song and dance (April 29)
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Forward this to your friends, they will love you after all, because they will love Verbal Jazz.
Friends, if you have received this, sign up for the newsletter at http://www.verbaljazz.com.
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If you have received this message in error, or no longer wish to receive this newsletter please reply with a message that I will manage to find both offensive and dull. Or you could just simply write that you wish to unsubscribe. Verbal Jazz will still feel the love. We will.
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