{"id":36269,"date":"2013-05-13T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36269"},"modified":"2013-05-13T07:22:12","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T12:22:12","slug":"frequently-asked-questions-part-ix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36269","title":{"rendered":"Frequently Asked Questions, Part IX"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Isn’t “Joe Doakes from Como Park” teh sock puppett?”<\/strong>: Yeah, right. \u00a0Think about this for a second (let’s assume for a moment you’re capable of it); why would I, on a blog where I’ve written well over 16,000 posts over 11 years, all of them under my own name (unlike the majority of gutless pseudonymic leftybloggers who slander and defame their betters from behind pseudonyms) \u00a0need to have a pseudonymic handle? \u00a0To write\u00a0more<\/em>?<\/p>\n

I’d say “stop being an idiot”, but the sentence includes a three syllable word, so you might have trouble with it…<\/p>\n

“Hah hah, Merg! \u00a0After a year or two of you saying Tom Bok and Paul Theeeessin would stonewall on Gay Marrege, they’re pushing it threw! \u00a0Hah hah! \u00a0You are teh looser!”<\/strong>: So hang on a minute – after starting the session setting the lowest expectations possible for gay marriage, and then having their first social policy initiative (the Martens\/Latz gun grabs) go down in flames, the governor and Senate’s first tax and budget proposals arouse a firestorm of controversy, and enduring mocking from people like yours truly for their craven abandonment of the masses of low-information idealists who put them in office, you mean to say Tom Bakk and Paul Thissen did an about face and pushed hard for an easy short-term win to draw attention away from their failings on the budget, tax reform and, well, everything?<\/p>\n

Huh. \u00a0Go figure.<\/p>\n

“Mitch, why do you portray people who disagree with you in these “FAQ” pieces as cretins who misspell and pretty much audibly pant and drool like prehensile obscene phone callers? \u00a0Isn’t that a little prejudicial toward those who disagree with you?”<\/strong>: You haven’t met some of my critics<\/a>, have you?<\/p>\n

“You say you are teh conservative! \u00a0Yet you write about Bruse Sprengstein, and you bike to werk! \u00a0You are teh librel!”<\/strong>: \u00a0Your what<\/em> hurts?<\/p>\n

“Why do you hate gay people?”<\/strong>: I don’t. \u00a0Hate is a bad thing, and I don’t practice it. \u00a0And I suspect I’ve put more on the line against\u00a0genuine\u00a0<\/em>hatred of gay people than most people. \u00a0Just saying; let it go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Isn’t “Joe Doakes from Como Park” teh sock puppett?”: Yeah, right. \u00a0Think about this for a second (let’s assume for a moment you’re capable of it); why would I, on a blog where I’ve written well over 16,000 posts over 11 years, all of them under my own name (unlike the majority of gutless pseudonymic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[222],"class_list":["post-36269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch","tag-faq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36269","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=36269"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36286,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36269\/revisions\/36286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}