co-da |ˈkōdə|
noun Music
the concluding passage of a piece or movement, typically forming an addition to the basic structure.
• the concluding section of a dance, esp. of a pas de deux or the finale of a ballet in which the dancers parade before the audience.
• a concluding event, remark, or section : his new novel is a kind of coda to his previous books.
ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: Italian, from Latin cauda ‘tail.’
Thanks to corporate sponsored Sunday morning "news" shows, we've watched Dick Cheney's hate-mongering song and dance routine countless times, thinking it was a solo performance by a political virtuoso.
Today I give you the coda, from which it becomes clear that Mr. Cheney's fancy footwork is in fact a pas de deuxplicity in which the danseur noble and the choreographer are one and the same.
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