…”What do you do to make yourself depressed at the state of humankind?”<\/p>\n
Well, that’s fairly simple.\u00a0 I ponder the fact that Joe Biden has a political career, or that the Doors are regarded as rock legends, or that…<\/p>\n
…no, I’m sorry.\u00a0 That’s untrue.\u00a0 Nobody asks me what I do to make myself depressed.<\/p>\n
They do <\/em>ask me if I’m going to fisk the latest It’s a distinction without a difference, of course.\u00a0<\/p>\n But I’m all about duty, when it calls.\u00a0 If indeed Lenfestey needs fisking, I’ll do it.<\/p>\n Still, Jeff Kouba<\/a> and Learned Foot<\/a> gave me the best midsummer present of all; they did the job in great style, giving me a column’s respite from slogging through and sharing the woman’s continuing descent into surly, shrieking madness.<\/p>\n I thank you, gentlemen.\u00a0 And I shall step up for the next one, refreshed and ready to do battle.\u00a0<\/p>\n Where “doing battle” equals “whacking at an advancing manure slick with a hockey stick”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …”What do you do to make yourself depressed at the state of humankind?” Well, that’s fairly simple.\u00a0 I ponder the fact that Joe Biden has a political career, or that the Doors are regarded as rock legends, or that… …no, I’m sorry.\u00a0 That’s untrue.\u00a0 Nobody asks me what I do to make myself depressed. They […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,20,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-democrats","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}column<\/strike> explosively-oozing bit of deranged twaddle from Susan Lenfestey.\u00a0<\/p>\n