{"id":2879,"date":"2008-07-16T06:32:49","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T11:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2879"},"modified":"2008-07-16T12:08:48","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T17:08:48","slug":"a-note-for-paul-schmelzer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2879","title":{"rendered":"A Note For Paul Schmelzer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To:\u00a0 Paul Schmelzer, <em>Minnesoros &#8220;Independent&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From: Mitch Berg, schmuck blogger<\/p>\n<p>Re:\u00a0 Interview<\/p>\n<p>Paul,<\/p>\n<p>While I think the <em>Mindy<\/em> has become a pretty risible exercise, you are without a doubt a writer that could make it at a real publication.<\/p>\n<p>Now, since you <em>do <\/em>write for a lefty propaganda shill site, I know that one of the ground rules is that you have to titter and chuckle at any traditional representation of religion (with exceptions made for lesbians declaring themselves ordained priests, Jewish supporters of Hamas and that sort of thing).<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaindependent.com\/view\/mnindy-interview\">reading this bit here<\/a>, I gotta say:\u00a0 interviewing PZ &#8220;Meyers&#8221; Myers about religion (with breathless, <em>Tiger-beat-<\/em>style credulity, no less; &#8220;The incident with college student Webster Cook comes as religious passions everywhere are incredibly inflamed \u2013- Shiites and Sunnis, Evangelicals and atheists, etc. Does this say anything about the state of religion?&#8221;) is a little like interview Andy Dick about the state of method acting.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:\u00a0 And no, Paul and PZ &#8211; the incident says nothing about the &#8220;state of religion&#8221;.\u00a0 It says something about the state of atheism\/agnosticism.\u00a0 They&#8217;re reduced to playing &#8220;monkey in the middle&#8221; with the artifacts of ceremony.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pathetic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To:\u00a0 Paul Schmelzer, Minnesoros &#8220;Independent&#8221; From: Mitch Berg, schmuck blogger Re:\u00a0 Interview Paul, While I think the Mindy has become a pretty risible exercise, you are without a doubt a writer that could make it at a real publication. Now, since you do write for a lefty propaganda shill site, I know that one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-faiths-and-their-followers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879","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=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}