{"id":3169,"date":"2008-08-27T07:43:43","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T12:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3169"},"modified":"2008-08-27T07:43:43","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T12:43:43","slug":"it-was-a-glorious-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3169","title":{"rendered":"It Was A Glorious Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I did the show at the fair last night.\u00a0 Had a great time talking with Ed Matthews<\/a>, who’s running for Congress in the Fourth District, as well as Andrew Campanella from the Alliance for School Choice<\/a>,\u00a0 and Big John Howell from WIND’s John and Cisco<\/a> show live from the convention.<\/p>\n

Of course, while I always had a blast broadcasting from our old digs on Judson near the southeast corner of the fairgrounds, our new location – just inside the front gate, on Dan Patch Avenue, is a complete hoot.\u00a0 Largely because we’ve installed tables and chairs and sun-umbrellas, so it’s genuinely a nice place to stop and decompress (when you’re not outraged at the mess the Tics want to make of this country) from the hustle and bustle of the fair, of course…<\/p>\n

…but also because the DFL booth is right across the street.<\/p>\n

As always, I make a point of interviewing them whenever I can; on the NARN II show, we always take liberal callers first, and that includes the ones that come into our lair on foot.\u00a0 Most of them aren’t up to talking on the air – most of them seem to be acting more from inchoate rage than considered thought.<\/p>\n

Especially one woman last night.<\/p>\n

As I was interviewing Matthews, a woman – short, leathery, fiftyish, with a mop of cairefully-coiffed short brown hair, wearing an Obama shirt and a face that bespoke a middle-aged life that had never brooked any disagreement – stood in the far corner of the Patriot’s area, and just grimaced<\/em>; the look was partly “that wasn’t a Baby Ruth I just ate”, and partly pure, undiluted hatred.<\/p>\n

I waved to try to defuse things, and maybe induce her to hang around for a quick chat.\u00a0 Her faced tightened up, as if someone had brought her a plate of steamed refugee. She scampered away, holding her head, as if the cognitive dissonance was making her immune system reject her brain.<\/p>\n

We have to share a country with these people.<\/p>\n

Oy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I did the show at the fair last night.\u00a0 Had a great time talking with Ed Matthews, who’s running for Congress in the Fourth District, as well as Andrew Campanella from the Alliance for School Choice,\u00a0 and Big John Howell from WIND’s John and Cisco show live from the convention. Of course, while I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-narn","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169","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=3169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}