{"id":1101,"date":"2007-07-27T06:24:27","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T11:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2007-07-26T19:49:46","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T00:49:46","slug":"wankers-unite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1101","title":{"rendered":"Wankers, Unite!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The frothy jags that bring you “Cucking Stool” have a mission for you<\/a>!<\/p>\n

What if all the religious conservatives and the other self-appointed dispensers of truth who huff and puff daily from the moral high ground were really moral and ethical midgets?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0Hm.\u00a0 In other words, “what if people who stand for moral standards have human frailties and flaws, and are imperfect – sometimes flagrantly so?”<\/p>\n

I guess the answer would be “They’re human.\u00a0 Get a life”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Limited capacity thinkers?\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[cheap shot on] then they’d be leftybloggers [\/cheap shot off]<\/p>\n

This could be big, boys and girls. Really big.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What could be big really big, you ask?<\/p>\n

And now, a small cadre of Minnesota bloggers is preparing to prove it. It will probably start off as just a sprinkle;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…followed by a muted dripping and a flush, I’m guessing…\u00a0<\/p>\n

then it will rain harder, and finally all of collected grime of empty moralisms will be washed away. Or something like that. It should be fun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fun, huh?<\/p>\n

Hm.\u00a0 No, like most Twin Cities Leftyblogger efforts, it will probably turn out to be an embarassment.\u00a0 Twin Cities’ leftybloggers, for all of their sturm und drang, <\/em>have tended to be generals in the bedroom and whores on the battlefield; big talkers and little doers.\u00a0 As “journalists”, they’re proven themselves (so far) incapable of covering a one car crash<\/a>.\u00a0 As “investigators”, they’ve embarassed themselves<\/a>.\u00a0 While some of them are excellent (and some are friends of mine<\/a>), their collective track record so far is a weary “STF What?”<\/p>\n

So bring that “little cadre” on.<\/p>\n

In order that the blooming of the thousand flowers can be collected, Spot suggests using a Technorati tag and\/or category “judgmentalism”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Alternatively, I’d suggest “wankers gone wild”, “cheap imitations of blogs that matter”, “monkeys flinging poo”, or “Junior’s First Attempt at Electronic Activism”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We had the beginnings of a much better discussion about social conservatism (or, if you’re hopelessly dramatic, “Judgementalism”) over on one of Andy Birkey’s posts at MinMon<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The frothy jags that bring you “Cucking Stool” have a mission for you! What if all the religious conservatives and the other self-appointed dispensers of truth who huff and puff daily from the moral high ground were really moral and ethical midgets? \u00a0Hm.\u00a0 In other words, “what if people who stand for moral standards have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","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=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}