{"id":19771,"date":"2011-05-05T05:05:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T11:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19771"},"modified":"2011-05-05T05:05:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T11:05:44","slug":"the-vortex-of-doy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19771","title":{"rendered":"The Vortex Of Doy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nachman at <em>Loyal Opposition<\/em> notes the endless entertainment that is Representative Phyllis Kahn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/loyalopposition.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/04\/rep-phyllis-kahn-or-how-a-politician-can-speak-and-actually-make-the-world-a-dumber-place\/\">Speaking in committee yesterday<\/a> re the Marriage Amendment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After some other elected official complained that the Legislature should be working on the budget shortfall and not on unimportant things like defining the core unit of civil society, Representative Phyllis Kahn (DFL-Minneapolis, the one who signed on to a bill sympathizing with the supporters of murderous anti-Semites), questioned why there is no statutory enabling language in the amendment, then wondered aloud if defining marriage as \u201conly between one man and one woman\u201d means one time only, or successive marriages?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The bottom of stupid fell out of the world at that point.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With a nod to Glenn Reynolds: heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nachman at Loyal Opposition notes the endless entertainment that is Representative Phyllis Kahn. Speaking in committee yesterday re the Marriage Amendment: After some other elected official complained that the Legislature should be working on the budget shortfall and not on unimportant things like defining the core unit of civil society, Representative Phyllis Kahn (DFL-Minneapolis, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19771","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=19771"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19774,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19771\/revisions\/19774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}