{"id":3489,"date":"2008-10-17T05:28:58","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T10:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3489"},"modified":"2012-02-16T07:38:13","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T13:38:13","slug":"gutless-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3489","title":{"rendered":"Gutless"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, Tracy Eberly wrote – with characteristic political incorrectness – a piece<\/a> that capped off with the line “If you are biking to save the environment, keep it up and the law of averages says we’ll have a few less Obama voters in November.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, as usual on subjects where Tracy and I disagree, I’m right and Tracy’s wrong.\u00a0 Not necessarily about most<\/em> bikers supporting Obama – most of the lycra-and-Bianchi crowd does.\u00a0 Oh, things like this…:<\/p>\n

If you bike for your health, you’d better have a large life insurance policy as you’re risking your life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…are worth a whack; waking up in the morning and doing anything but lying in bed involves “risking your life”.<\/p>\n

But even though Tracy’s wrong, he’s still one of the good guys – and one of the fundamental tenets of being a good conservative is “argue amongst yourselves until your jaws fall off – but if the orcs intrude, close ranks<\/em>“.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Emily Kaiser at the City Pages – <\/em>which seems to be on its way toward becoming an even less-credible operation than the Minnesoros “Independent” <\/em>these days – took time off from her gruelling schedule of ignoring the thud-witted cloddish selective insensitivity<\/a> of Twin Cities leftyblogs to huff and puff and write a piece<\/a> in which she expressed the vapours over Eberly’s un-PC-itude.<\/p>\n

And the usual lefty trolls came out in the comment section – most notably “Scottsdale<\/a> Woman<\/a>“, a risible “feminist” “blog” “writer” who threatened to sic both law-enforcement and <\/em>hordes of angry bikers with both left-wing sympathies and <\/em>handguns on drivers who vex bikers – simultaneously violating Minnesota self-defense law and <\/em>confirming Wes Skoglund’s fears about armed citizens, albeit not the ones I’d suspect provoked his years-long fit of dissociation.\u00a0 “She” also left a comment about Tracy’s place of employment – which, given the number of class acts among\u00a0leftybloggers in this city, is tantamount to taping a “Stalk Me!” sign on his back.<\/p>\n

A couple of us responded, to Kaiser and Scottsdale woman, in the comment section.<\/p>\n

And while Scottsdale Woman and all of her wacko defamation remains, pristine and undisturbed, it’d seem that the City Pages’ <\/em>moderators have chosen to remove all comments critical of Ms. Kaiser, her reporting, and of the depravity (and factual dim-bulbitude) of some of the commenters.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Which is their right; it’s private property.<\/p>\n

It’s also singularly gutless.<\/p>\n

Which is kind of sad; City Pages<\/em> used to put some courage behind their adenoidal shrieking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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