Highlights and Low Notes of the Week
The Verbal Jazz Weekly Newsletter
Before launching into the usual lunacy that is the Verbal Jazz Highlights and Low Notes of the Week, I would like to express my gratitude to all of you who expressed your condolences at the passing of my grandmother last Friday.
Whenever I see a cardinal in the spring, I will be reminded of how she used to tell me that the cardinal is not a St. Louis Cardinal, but a Kentucky Cardinal that followed her to Massachusetts. She was born in Kentucky and raised in a Catholic orphanage; and moved to Brockton, MA in 1941. She embodied the kind of non-judgmental attitude toward people that is all too rare. She loved the Harley riders my aunt brought home, the garbage collectors and the career grocery baggers at the local supermarket. She will surely be missed.
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Now, for the usual lunacy
I can now rest easy knowing that Ross and Rachel end up together.
Oh, yeah, my bad! The president finally sings the chorus of R.E.M's "South Central Rain" ("I'm sorry"). Granted it was to King Abdullah of Jordan, and with regard to the inmate torture that went on in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The conduct of those running Abu Ghraib gives new meaning to the Who line: "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
Everybody loves Rummy: Despite being chewed for allowing President Flyboy to hear about the Abu Ghraib tortures on television, the Secretary of Defense gets to keep his job with full support. Maybe Rummy'll humbly resign, but nothing Rummy does is humble. I was kind of looking forward to seeing his resume: "Oversaw US armed forces and didn't bother to read the reports that showed we were blowing the Geneva Conventions." Would you hire him?
Just one question left: who had the idea to photograph the whole scene at Abu Ghraib? "Okay, you, over there...thumbs up, now smile! I can't wait to show these to my grandkids!"
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The Verbal Jazz Weekly Newsletter
Before launching into the usual lunacy that is the Verbal Jazz Highlights and Low Notes of the Week, I would like to express my gratitude to all of you who expressed your condolences at the passing of my grandmother last Friday.
Whenever I see a cardinal in the spring, I will be reminded of how she used to tell me that the cardinal is not a St. Louis Cardinal, but a Kentucky Cardinal that followed her to Massachusetts. She was born in Kentucky and raised in a Catholic orphanage; and moved to Brockton, MA in 1941. She embodied the kind of non-judgmental attitude toward people that is all too rare. She loved the Harley riders my aunt brought home, the garbage collectors and the career grocery baggers at the local supermarket. She will surely be missed.
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Now, for the usual lunacy
I can now rest easy knowing that Ross and Rachel end up together.
Oh, yeah, my bad! The president finally sings the chorus of R.E.M's "South Central Rain" ("I'm sorry"). Granted it was to King Abdullah of Jordan, and with regard to the inmate torture that went on in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The conduct of those running Abu Ghraib gives new meaning to the Who line: "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
Everybody loves Rummy: Despite being chewed for allowing President Flyboy to hear about the Abu Ghraib tortures on television, the Secretary of Defense gets to keep his job with full support. Maybe Rummy'll humbly resign, but nothing Rummy does is humble. I was kind of looking forward to seeing his resume: "Oversaw US armed forces and didn't bother to read the reports that showed we were blowing the Geneva Conventions." Would you hire him?
Just one question left: who had the idea to photograph the whole scene at Abu Ghraib? "Okay, you, over there...thumbs up, now smile! I can't wait to show these to my grandkids!"
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This page is sponsored by Verbal Jazz Plague Contracting. Because delivering on the promise of a plague is a monumental undertaking, why not outsource all of your plague needs? Rely on us as we UNLEASH THE LOCUSTS!
+ + +
Sign up for the newsletter on the left. Because I told you to. I am a guru with powers of mind control.
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The Verbal Jazz Highlights and Low Notes of the Week is brought to you by Verbal Jazz Plague Contracting, Inc. If you have received this message in error, or no longer wish to receive the newsletter, please reply to this message with a thinly disguised attempt at being nice about it, with a curdling of asshole underneath the surface. Or just simply write UNSUBSCRIBE.
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