Politics and You
The 9/11 Panel
by Matthew Tobey

This week, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice will testify before the 9/11 panel. And while it seems like a good thing, it’s quite the opposite. After all, the White House had denied the panel Rice’s under-oath testimony at first, but after the panel continued to push, the administration finally gave in. Now they’re going to get cocky.


I give the 9/11 panel a week before they’re bringing in Goldie Hawn under the pretense that there may be ties between Al Qaeda and Laugh-In, only to use the opportunity to dreamily and repeatedly ask the aging actress to recount the uninhibited weekend in 1971 that she spent in Bora Bora with three of the Beach Boys, two Tibetan monks and an armless magician. But that’ll all seem like a cakewalk in the park once the panel really starts to get high and mighty.


Each member of the panel will eventually be given a secret nickname that can and will change at any given time without warning. Anyone testifying must address the panel members using the appropriate nickname, otherwise they’ll be forced to finish their testimony sitting in a kiddy-pool filled with porridge. Get the nickname wrong eight consecutive times and it’ll be into the tickle-tank with you.


Drunk with power, the panel will next start coming to unsubstantiated conclusions about the events of September 11, 2001. Musician Norah Jones will be charged with “infinity counts of first-degree adorableness with intent to cause great bodily charm” and sentenced to a candle-lit picnic dinner with the members of the 9/11 panel and “eleventy-fifty great big bear hugs.” Anyone who questions what Norah Jones and her criminal level of cuteness has to do with the terrorist attacks will be charged with treason and sentenced to three weeks of washing the cars of the members of the 9/11 panel.


It sounds absurd, sure, but that’s what they said about the horseless-carriage and the pantsless-telephone. So keep an eye on that wily 9/11 panel; that rascally bunch is up to no good.
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