{"id":1110,"date":"2007-08-03T08:08:38","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T13:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2007-08-03T08:33:15","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T13:33:15","slug":"are-you-ready-for-the-surge-of-counterjudgement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1110","title":{"rendered":"Are You Ready For The Surge Of (Counter)Judgement?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1101\">we noted<\/a> that Cucking Stool, the City Pages&#8217; &#8220;Best Leftyblog&#8221; for 2006 (and thus either the most overrated blog in the Twin Cities or the most cursed one) <a href=\"http:\/\/thecuckingstool.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/putting-judgment-back-into.html\">hinted at smack to be laid down<\/a>&#8230;eventually.\u00a0 By&#8230;someone.\u00a0 About&#8230;something:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a small cadre of Minnesota bloggers is preparing to prove it. It will probably start off as just a sprinkle; then it will rain harder, and finally all of the collected grime of empty moralisms will be washed away. Or something like that. It should be fun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And to track and document this surge in righeous niggling, the Cucking Tool proposed&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In order that the blooming of the thousand flowers can be collected, Spot suggests using a Technorati tag and\/or category &#8220;judgmentalism.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And after a week, the fruits of their &#8220;labor&#8221; are&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;well, I hate to be, um, judgementalist, but&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/judgmentalism\">ow<\/a>.\u00a0 Cuck &#8211; there&#8217;s not a lotta righteous, or anti-righteous, Minnesota indignation (counterindignation?), is there?<\/p>\n<p>The moral (or &#8220;moral&#8221;) world awaits the wave of tribulation.\u00a0 I guess.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and by the way, Cuck?\u00a0 While I don&#8217;t go to you for blazing insight (although the City Pages thinks you&#8217;re cute and all, so don&#8217;t mind me), I should point out that in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1122\">my bit about leftybloggers&#8217; response<\/a> to the death of Norm Coleman Senior, I wasn&#8217;t wanting them to send <em>me <\/em>condolences, as <a href=\"http:\/\/thecuckingstool.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/o-boo-hoo.html\">you put it<\/a>, so much as chiding some of your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnblue.com\/node\">scumbag friends<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Again, a fine distinction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Y&#8217;know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, we noted that Cucking Stool, the City Pages&#8217; &#8220;Best Leftyblog&#8221; for 2006 (and thus either the most overrated blog in the Twin Cities or the most cursed one) hinted at smack to be laid down&#8230;eventually.\u00a0 By&#8230;someone.\u00a0 About&#8230;something: a small cadre of Minnesota bloggers is preparing to prove it. It will probably start off as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110","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=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}