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Alright. Here's something that mades me sit up and take notice: Julian takes potshots at Jello. No, not Jello^TM, Jello Biafra. For those of you who were 'uninvolved' with the punk scene in the 80's, Jello was the front man for the Dead Kennadys. After the band split up, Jello turned to Spoken Word performances. I had the pleasure to see him perform in the late 80's. I just wish I could remember it. Julian's commentary sounds vaguely familiar though:

'But (ah, yes� but) the stated topic � �Freedom of Speech in the Shadow of the War on Terror� � was rather misleading. To the extent that there was an overriding theme (and it�s only a moderate extent � there were lengthy tangents about, for example, his legal wrangles with his old bandmates) it could best be summarized as: �George W. Bush is a venal little bastard, a political Rainman whose idiot savantism applies not to mathematics, but the commission of evil.� Well, perhaps that�s not entirely wrong, but over the course of almost two hours, it does wear a little thin. Jello moved from topic to topic � military tribunals to the nefarious rejection of the Kyoto Treaty � with the same desultory logic that event follows event in a dream. And he resorted throughout to the sort of name-warping (e.g. �Ashcrack� and �Dumbsfeld�) made popular by Mad Magazine, and (I had thought) amusing to roughly the same age group that subscribes to that classic periodical. Indisputable facts, discredited rumors, stylized or spun versions of genuine events, and raw speculation blended into each other with similar ease, and without any hedging or change in tone to indicate that some of these �suppressed truths� were any more questionable than others.'