Upon arriving home after a harrowing commute through
the St. Louis horizontal rain ... I find an envelope
in the mail bearing the logo of the Internal Revenue
Service and a diagonal stamp in blood red ink that
reads:
"Important Information Concerning Your Tax Return"
Now I live partially under a rock, sure, but even I
know this isn't an Audit. They're announcing that I'm
going to receive the highest possible rebate ($600
whole bucks, no less), under W's recently decreed
Death Sentence for Social Security, Medicare and
management of the National Debt.
I also know that there's only a 33 1/3% chance that
this is, in fact, the case -- since 2 out of 3 of
these missives were fired off errantly due to an IRS
software glitch.
Now this is all a slow-simmer kind of annoyance at
this point. The real boil comes when I open the
stupid thing ...
And discover that it's really a campaign ad. Written
in the most pandering, obsequious marketing language
imaginable ... mercilessly flogging W's supposed
"munificent, magnanimous benefecence in his visionary
stewardship ... blah-blah-blah". Phooey!
But then again, what did I expect?
Don Rowe
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