{"id":1628,"date":"2007-11-14T12:38:30","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T17:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2007-11-14T12:38:30","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T17:38:30","slug":"moral-quandary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1628","title":{"rendered":"Moral Quandary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I noted that in the wake of Karl Bremer&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymole.com\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/09\/reader-op-ed-it%e2%80%99s-still-okay-to-bash-native-americans%e2%80%94at-least-on-the-right\/\">rapier-like assault<\/a> at the heart of the Minnesota Organization of Bloggers&#8217; content-management and enforcement policies, King Banaian had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1622\">assumed an unconscionable amount of power<\/a> unto himself, and declaring himself superior to the Northern Alliance&#8217;s &#8220;advice and consent&#8221; role.\u00a0 In effect, he has declared himself absolute dictator of the MOB.<\/p>\n<p>He was given a chance to fall into line and obey the constitution &#8211; an imperative that he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haloscan.com\/comments\/scsuscholars\/184687023144527987\/#272015\">swept aside<\/a> like Caesar crossing the Rubicon.\u00a0 King Banaian rebuffed my efforts to broker a settlement.<\/p>\n<p>It would seem the MOB &#8211; heretofore a placid, unified front in the blog wars &#8211; has been rent asunder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Though it pains me, there comes a time when a guy has to make things perfectly clear:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2070\/2021837663_f318064814_m.jpg\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I call upon King Banaian to relinquish control over the MOB&#8217;s policy-setting apparatus and, above all, the &#8220;Blue&#8221; and &#8220;Red&#8221; lists of blogs&#8217; standings in the MOB.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m maintaining my calm &#8211; but it can&#8217;t last forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I noted that in the wake of Karl Bremer&#8217;s rapier-like assault at the heart of the Minnesota Organization of Bloggers&#8217; content-management and enforcement policies, King Banaian had assumed an unconscionable amount of power unto himself, and declaring himself superior to the Northern Alliance&#8217;s &#8220;advice and consent&#8221; role.\u00a0 In effect, he has declared himself absolute [&hellip;]<\/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-1628","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\/1628","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=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}