In a sense, I’m loathe to run this contest – it’ll necessarily drive some traffic to a bunch of blogs I really don’t like all that much.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Still, the truth must be told<\/strike> It’s Friday and I need a good laugh.<\/p>\n
What are the Twin Cities’ unintentionally <\/em>funniest leftyblogs and leftybloggers?<\/p>\n I’m not talking about the thin film of TC leftybloggers that are actually fairly sharp thinkers and good writers.\u00a0 And there are a few of ’em out there, although you have to look hard to find ’em.\u00a0 (I’ve credited a few of them in this space before, so don’t come yapping at me now).\u00a0<\/p>\n No, I’m looking for the ones that are so overwrought they shoot steam out their ears; the ones so far gone in conspiracy theory that they make great party reading; the ones we laugh at, not with.\u00a0<\/p>\n I’ll take nominations the rest of today and maybe tomorrow, and run the “real” poll on Monday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n History calls, ladies and gentlemen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a sense, I’m loathe to run this contest – it’ll necessarily drive some traffic to a bunch of blogs I really don’t like all that much.\u00a0 Still, the truth must be told It’s Friday and I need a good laugh. What are the Twin Cities’ unintentionally funniest leftyblogs and leftybloggers? I’m not talking about […]<\/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-1208","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\/1208","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=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}