{"id":33756,"date":"2013-01-22T12:04:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T18:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33756"},"modified":"2013-02-25T16:40:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T22:40:58","slug":"nothing-to-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33756","title":{"rendered":"Alas, Babylon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought about writing a long, acerbic piece about\u00a0<em>Roe V. Wade<\/em>, the SCOTUS decision <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2013\/01\/17\/politics\/roe-vs-wade-40-years\">handed down forty years ago today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>About how the decision &#8211; which sniffed imaginary emanations of penumbras from between the lines of the Constitution &#8211; was an incredibly badly-written decision. \u00a0About how it was a deeply wrong-headed over-run of the Tenth Amendment. \u00a0About the two-faced notion of &#8220;rights&#8221; that it bequeathed to a couple of generations of identity feminists.<\/p>\n<p>But honestly, it&#8217;s all too depressing. \u00a0If I were to write a history of the decline and fall of the United States, <em>Roe\u00a0<\/em>would have a chapter of its own.<\/p>\n<p>Not just because it legalized infanticide &#8211; although that is damning enough.<\/p>\n<p>But because it was, and is, emblematic of the trivialization of thought, of logic and of reason that is degrading our society at every level today.<\/p>\n<p>So celebrate like it&#8217;s 1999, baby-killers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought about writing a long, acerbic piece about\u00a0Roe V. Wade, the SCOTUS decision handed down forty years ago today. About how the decision &#8211; which sniffed imaginary emanations of penumbras from between the lines of the Constitution &#8211; was an incredibly badly-written decision. \u00a0About how it was a deeply wrong-headed over-run of the Tenth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33756","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=33756"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33759,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33756\/revisions\/33759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}