{"id":12836,"date":"2010-08-23T04:36:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T09:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12836"},"modified":"2010-08-23T14:17:27","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T19:17:27","slug":"my-ends-justify-my-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12836","title":{"rendered":"My Ends Justify My Means"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day “Spotty” from Lucky Drool <\/em>read my piece<\/a> pointing out his “logical inconsistency” last week. \u00a0His face blanched, and then went beet-red. \u00a0He jumped to his feet, \u00a0swept the dishes off the table into a heap on the ground, walked outdoors and howled at the moon like a wolf with heartburn, stomped his feet, fell to the sidewalk and beat the ground with his fists, all the while loudly but un-fluently cursing his miserable fate. \u00a0He got up and walked with an ape-like slouch into his house, looking for sharp objects (which, fortunately, Aaron “I’m not Landry” Klemz had removed), smashed some bottles on the floor, and bellowed incoherently at the top of his lungs until he passed out. \u00a0The paramedics gave him oxygen and suggested he change his underwear.<\/p>\n

No, I don’t know <\/em>he did\u00a0any of this. \u00a0But I figured since virtually every leftyblogger in town states “disagreement” has some sort of angry outburst – “Joe Tucci had a meltdown over…” or “Tracy Eberly got his undies in a knot over…” or…:<\/p>\n

Mitch Berg got the vapors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…or some other variant on “so and so is a poopyhead”.<\/p>\n

There must be something to it. \u00a0Maybe it’s a leftyblogger’s idea of fun?<\/p>\n

I’m not feeling it. \u00a0Maybe it takes practice.<\/p>\n

Oh, “Spot”‘s point? \u00a0Er…<\/p>\n

…I dunno. \u00a0Being a leftyblogger, it’s some variation on “my <\/em>ends justify my <\/em>means”, but it gets hard to tell after a while…<\/p>\n

Oh, yeah! \u00a0 He was <\/em>reacting to<\/a> – er, “having a whining melted-down cow over” – my piece from last week:<\/p>\n

Mitch’s lament is that I made people look foolish at the Tea Party rally at the Minnesota Capitol on April 15, 2010<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There was no lamentation. \u00a0Merely reporting. \u00a0“Spot” was claiming GOP trackers were rude and intimidated people. \u00a0I pointed out that if that was “intimidation” – a 98 pound girl with a flipcam who didn’t even fit into the same frame as Dayton – then DFL voters are indeed pansies, and if the security people and the spectators I spoke with at the Tea Party are correct, Spot’s probably not the one to be complaining.<\/p>\n

It’s really that simple.<\/p>\n

Quit sobbing, Spot. \u00a0That gnashing is going to hurt your teeth. And f9r crying out loud, blow your effing nose.<\/p>\n

(Nope. Still not seeing the fun. \u00a0Guess there was a reason I ignored Truck School <\/em>so long).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day “Spotty” from Lucky Drool read my piece pointing out his “logical inconsistency” last week. \u00a0His face blanched, and then went beet-red. \u00a0He jumped to his feet, \u00a0swept the dishes off the table into a heap on the ground, walked outdoors and howled at the moon like a wolf with heartburn, stomped his […]<\/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-12836","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\/12836","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=12836"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12848,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12836\/revisions\/12848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}