Highlights and Low Notes of the Week
1. R.I.P. Peter Jennings
The last time I really watched Peter Jennings was in the aftermath of 9/11. Jennings provided a familiar face. His was the nightly news that I grew up watching at my grandparents' house* after Walter Cronkite retired. The routine was always the same -six o'clock local news followed by "World News Tonight" with Peter Jennings.
2. Iran breaks the nuclear seal
This week Iran broke the seal on a uranium enrichment facility. The Iranian government claims that this was a necessary step to take in order to provide electricity to its citizens. President Bush did not take the news lightly and implored the Iranian government to drill in its own Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Meanwhile Cheney and the neocons have been working on a plan of pre-emptive nuclear war in case a forged document emerges alleging to Iran's purchase of a Nigerian Duncan Hines yellow cake.
3. Speaking of nuclear devastation
Verbal Jazz attended a wedding on the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. Needless to say nuclear devastation was the furthest thing from the mind of the bride and groom as they mashed cake in each other's faces, a spectacle that Verbal Jazz and Missus Jazz did not create at their own wedding. AND speaking of weddings, Verbal Jazz highly recommends "Wedding Crashers."
4. A victory for truth in advertising
On Thursday NARAL announced that it would pull an advertisement that stretches (okay ignores) the truth in order to vilify Supreme Court nominee John Roberts. Apparently, some Democrats petitioned NARAL to pull the ad, which is all well and good if you believe in a stupid little thing called truth...but it makes one wonder why so many Republicans let the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth get away with their equally truthful anti John Kerry campaign of last year.
5. Verbal Jazz on the job front
Verbal Jazz chased no significant job leads this week and continued on with his temp job. Among this week's challenges: asking the meathead nerd sitting next to me to stop his loud singing. You may ask yourself, what exactly is a "meathead nerd?" A "meathead nerd" is nerd who tries to hard to prove that he is not a nerd, mostly by following sports and drinking too much. This particular "meathead nerd" claimed to read only the sports websites because the news ones were "too depressing." This "meathead nerd" also rolled up his pants to look like shorts one hot day, tapped his Coca Cola can twenty times before opening, and suffered through a Monday hangover. Verbal Jazz also got to train two new recruits to the temp job...which means I have become a veteran.
*For the record: the Verbal Jazz grandparents frequently babysat while the Verbal Jazz mom was at work. |
The last time I really watched Peter Jennings was in the aftermath of 9/11. Jennings provided a familiar face. His was the nightly news that I grew up watching at my grandparents' house* after Walter Cronkite retired. The routine was always the same -six o'clock local news followed by "World News Tonight" with Peter Jennings.
2. Iran breaks the nuclear seal
This week Iran broke the seal on a uranium enrichment facility. The Iranian government claims that this was a necessary step to take in order to provide electricity to its citizens. President Bush did not take the news lightly and implored the Iranian government to drill in its own Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Meanwhile Cheney and the neocons have been working on a plan of pre-emptive nuclear war in case a forged document emerges alleging to Iran's purchase of a Nigerian Duncan Hines yellow cake.
3. Speaking of nuclear devastation
Verbal Jazz attended a wedding on the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. Needless to say nuclear devastation was the furthest thing from the mind of the bride and groom as they mashed cake in each other's faces, a spectacle that Verbal Jazz and Missus Jazz did not create at their own wedding. AND speaking of weddings, Verbal Jazz highly recommends "Wedding Crashers."
4. A victory for truth in advertising
On Thursday NARAL announced that it would pull an advertisement that stretches (okay ignores) the truth in order to vilify Supreme Court nominee John Roberts. Apparently, some Democrats petitioned NARAL to pull the ad, which is all well and good if you believe in a stupid little thing called truth...but it makes one wonder why so many Republicans let the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth get away with their equally truthful anti John Kerry campaign of last year.
5. Verbal Jazz on the job front
Verbal Jazz chased no significant job leads this week and continued on with his temp job. Among this week's challenges: asking the meathead nerd sitting next to me to stop his loud singing. You may ask yourself, what exactly is a "meathead nerd?" A "meathead nerd" is nerd who tries to hard to prove that he is not a nerd, mostly by following sports and drinking too much. This particular "meathead nerd" claimed to read only the sports websites because the news ones were "too depressing." This "meathead nerd" also rolled up his pants to look like shorts one hot day, tapped his Coca Cola can twenty times before opening, and suffered through a Monday hangover. Verbal Jazz also got to train two new recruits to the temp job...which means I have become a veteran.
*For the record: the Verbal Jazz grandparents frequently babysat while the Verbal Jazz mom was at work. |
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