With the news that the “Center for American ‘Progress'” invited Christina Hendricks to speak at a summit about the plight of single working mothers <\/a>(one of which she is not, but she plays one, sort of, onMad Men), a mere 20 years after non-biochemist Meryl Streep was invited to Capitol Hill to lecture Congress about the perils of Alar (a pesticide) on apples, it might be good to give Big Left some other noted experts:<\/p>\n We should invite:<\/p>\n
\u00a0Expert<\/strong><\/td>\n| \u00a0To Speak On:<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \u00a0Aaron Paul<\/td>\n | \u00a0Youth Crime and Drug Abuse<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Tom Hanks<\/td>\n | \u00a0Wilderness and Open Ocean Survival<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Larry Hagman<\/td>\n | \u00a0Middle Eastern Mythology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Tom Hanks<\/td>\n | \u00a0Counterterrorism<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Ron Perlman<\/td>\n | \u00a0Organized Crime in the Rural Southwest<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Tom Hanks<\/td>\n | \u00a0Small Unit Tactics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Mary Lynn Rajskub<\/td>\n | \u00a0Cyberterrorism<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \u00a0James Caviezel<\/td>\n | \u00a0Theology of the New Testament<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \u00a0Ron Perlman<\/td>\n | \u00a0Countersniper Tactics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \u00a0Zach Braff<\/td>\n | \u00a0Non-Surgical Interventions for Ischemic Bowel Syndrome<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \u00a0Justin Timberlake<\/td>\n | \u00a0Preservation of Appendages after Traumatic Amputation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Steven Colbert<\/td>\n | The Intellectual Roots of Conservatism<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n | Any others?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With the news that the “Center for American ‘Progress’” invited Christina Hendricks to speak at a summit about the plight of single working mothers (one of which she is not, but she plays one, sort of, onMad Men), a mere 20 years after non-biochemist Meryl Streep was invited to Capitol Hill to lecture Congress about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45288","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=45288"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45291,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45288\/revisions\/45291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |