{"id":20816,"date":"2011-06-30T06:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20816"},"modified":"2011-06-30T06:11:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T12:11:02","slug":"the-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20816","title":{"rendered":"The Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, I took a rare chance to listen \u00a0to the Dennis Prager show. \u00a0I don&#8217;t get out much over the mid-day, so it was fun.<\/p>\n<p>He started talking about San Francisco&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2011\/jun\/26\/local\/la-me-goldfish-20110627\">probably-upcoming ban on pets<\/a>. I expected him to bag on it.<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t. According to Prager, it&#8217;s a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>And by the time he got done talking, I agreed.<\/p>\n<p>Think about it; San Francisco&#8217;s ban on pets follows closely follows moves to ban <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory?id=13632047\">circumcision<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.cnn.com\/2010-11-09\/us\/california.fast.food.ban_1_meal-combinations-apple-dippers-yale-university-s-rudd-center?_s=PM:US\">McDonalds Happy Meals<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/wires\/2006Nov15\/0,4670,JuniorROTC,00.html\">Junior ROTC<\/a> and for all I know having more than one child are a spectacular lesson in <em>what &#8220;progressivism&#8221; really means<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The old joke is that under liberalism, everything that isn&#8217;t mandatory is banned- and San Francisco is getting closer and closer to it every day.<\/p>\n<p>And what a wonderful lesson for people \u00a0&#8211; having an object lesson in the inevitable end-result of progressivism right there for all to see.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like a lab experiment &#8211; for everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, I took a rare chance to listen \u00a0to the Dennis Prager show. \u00a0I don&#8217;t get out much over the mid-day, so it was fun. He started talking about San Francisco&#8217;s probably-upcoming ban on pets. I expected him to bag on it. He didn&#8217;t. According to Prager, it&#8217;s a good idea. And by 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":[18,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20816","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=20816"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20840,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20816\/revisions\/20840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}