{"id":3639,"date":"2008-11-13T06:57:09","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T11:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3639"},"modified":"2008-11-13T06:57:09","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T11:57:09","slug":"the-worlds-unfairness-is-a-sisyphean-burden-on-us-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3639","title":{"rendered":"The World’s Unfairness Is A Sisyphean Burden On Us All"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Canadian Jon Stewart fan is miffed at being “snubbed”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Hell hath no fury like a Jon Stewart<\/font><\/a> fan scorned. A Canadian Jon Stewart fan? Well, that’s like bitter times infinity, because while we have the charismatic Barack Obama, with his blackness and his dancing on Ellen and his straight-faced puppy talk, they have Stephen Harper, a conservative hockey fan (aren’t they all?) who looks like he wants to sell you this beautiful 1996 Oldsmobile.<\/font><\/a> In other words, you can’t blame Canucks for projecting all their little hopes and dreams southward, feeling like no-one gets them<\/em> in Winnipeg<\/font><\/a> or Medicine Hat.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In other words, if Harper wins another term we’ll have Geddy Lee and Norm McDonald threatening to move to the US?<\/p>\n

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So we read with sadness the tale of Sharilyn Johnson,<\/font><\/a> a woman who has traveled from Toronto<\/font><\/a> to New York City to attend Daily Show<\/font><\/a><\/em> tapings so many times, she’s on a first-name basis with “Teri” and “Jessica” from the audience department. Yet when she flew down last week for the Daily Show’s Election Night Special,<\/em> she waited in line and watched as seats filled with VIPs\u2026 and then the unthinkable happened: She was turned away at the door. (Only about 21 or so folks got in. Johnson<\/font><\/a> was No. 40 out of about 250.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

[Gratuitous reference to liberal single-payer healthcare plans removed d\/t excessive obviousness]<\/p>\n

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How could this happen?! She reserved her tickets 7 months ago! And she’s the biggest fan ever! And she took vacation days from her job, booked a hotel, and traveled FROM TORONTO (that’s a 52-minute flight!)! Gawker excerpts<\/font><\/a> Johnson’s emotional HuffPo<\/font><\/a> screed about the incident, and here are some context-free highlights: “I am owed,” “robbed of an experience,” “emotionally empty,” and our favorite – sorry, favourite – “How do I stand outside under that awning again?”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’m trying to think of a one-word summation of the story that links Ms. Johnson’s credulous naivete and liberalism’s corrosive elitism.\u00a0 I know what I’m shooting for, but I’m coming up zilch.<\/p>\n

Help me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Canadian Jon Stewart fan is miffed at being “snubbed”: Hell hath no fury like a Jon Stewart fan scorned. A Canadian Jon Stewart fan? Well, that’s like bitter times infinity, because while we have the charismatic Barack Obama, with his blackness and his dancing on Ellen and his straight-faced puppy talk, they have Stephen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639","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=3639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}