{"id":11153,"date":"2010-06-02T06:30:38","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T11:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11153"},"modified":"2010-07-07T19:49:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T00:49:08","slug":"around-the-mob-penigma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11153","title":{"rendered":"Around The MOB: Penigma"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of years ago, Karl Bremer – free-lance shrieking-point-bot and Bachmann Derangement poster child – humiliated himself and his client<\/a>, Steve “Don’t Ask Me To Sing Oh Sherry” Perry by making up, from whole cloth, a story; that the Minnesota Organization of Bloggers was not only a conservative group, but one where the content was centrally driven by the MOB’s leadership.<\/p>\n

In a perfect would, Bremer would look at the membership of Penigma <\/em><\/a>in the MOB and commit purely-figurative rhetorical seppuku<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I consider Penigma <\/em>a blogchild of mine, albeit of the red-headed stepson variety; after years of leaving, er, let’s say “acerbic” comments in this blog’s comment section, the eponymous “Penigma” (who commented on this blog under a variety of names, and whom I’ve known for twenty solid years, and to whom I owe at least one personal debt of gratitude going back long before either of us thought “blog” was anything but something that happened after cheap beer and gas-station burritos) took everyone’s advice and started his own blog, about this time two years ago.\u00a0 “Pen” met his co-author, “Dog Gone” – another old friend from more or less the same long-moribund social circle, from the late eighties – via this comment section.<\/p>\n

So Penigma’s <\/em>a leftyblog, and thus wrong about pretty much everything – but it’s well worth a read.\u00a0 And a read.\u00a0 And a read some more.\u00a0 Because I’ll give the staff of Penigma <\/em>this much:\u00a0 if you’re tired of the traditional three-paragraph blog post, Penigma <\/em>will be, let’s just say, a change of pace.\u00a0 Somewhere in the ether, Leo Tolstoy is smiling.<\/p>\n

But “Dog Gone”‘s piece about the impending end of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” <\/a>is fairly good and, as it happens, comports with what a large chunk of mainstream conservatism also believes…well, about Don’t Ask\/Don’t Tell, anyway.\u00a0\u00a0 And the overall tone of the blog is a lot better than the petulant romper rooms full of spoiled rhetorical toddlers that make too many leftyblogs such a waste of energy.<\/p>\n

And unlike some leftyblogs – the supremely thin-skinned and gutless <\/a>Barbara O’Brien’s Mahablog<\/em><\/a>, for example – the discussion at Penigma is often fairly interesting.<\/p>\n

At any rate – when doing your daily prowl of Twin Cities leftyblogs, drop by Penigma <\/em>and say hi!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of years ago, Karl Bremer – free-lance shrieking-point-bot and Bachmann Derangement poster child – humiliated himself and his client, Steve “Don’t Ask Me To Sing Oh Sherry” Perry by making up, from whole cloth, a story; that the Minnesota Organization of Bloggers was not only a conservative group, but one where the content […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mob"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11153","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=11153"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11840,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11153\/revisions\/11840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}