{"id":4564,"date":"2009-04-13T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4564"},"modified":"2013-01-09T10:37:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T16:37:16","slug":"rule-of-law-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4564","title":{"rendered":"Rule Of Law, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been almost four years since I codified the various “Berg’s Laws” in one convenient place<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s high time I updated things.<\/p>\n

Berg’s First Law<\/a> of Liberal Iraq Commentary<\/strong> – “No liberal commentator is capable of addressing more than one of the President’s justifications for the War in Iraq at a time; to do so would introduce a context in which their argument can not survive”<\/p>\n

Berg’s Corollary to Bissonnette’s Law<\/a><\/strong> – (Whenever someone introduces an “Old West” analogy into a discussion on civilian firearms ownership, the person can be presumed to be covering for absolute ignorance on the subject). Corollary: Whenever anyone says “people who favor guns are compensating for something, ifyaknowwhatImean”, know what they mean only in the most academic possible sense.<\/p>\n

Berg’s Third Law of Human Resilience<\/strong> – After any disaster, whenever government and the media declare “there can not be any more survivors, and this is now a recovery operation”, they will be wrong.<\/p>\n

Berg’s Fourth Law of Media\/Sports Inversion<\/strong> – The Vikings will be contenders until the moment the local media actually believes they will be contenders. At that moment – be it pre-season or Week 12 – the season will fall irredeemably apart.<\/p>\n

Berg’s Fifth Law of Historical Illteracy<\/strong> – 99% of the invocations of Godwin’s Law are done by 1% of the online population. Corollary: That 1% understands .000001% of the history required for a literate invocation of Godwin’s Law.<\/p>\n

Berg’s Sixth Law of writing a Blog in a city full of people with dubious senses of Humor<\/strong> – To every joke, there is an equal and opposite inappropriately petulant reaction.<\/p>\n

Berg’s Seventh Law of Liberal Blogging <\/strong>– When a Liberal issues a group defamation or assault on conservatives’ ethics, character or respect for liberty, they are projecting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been almost four years since I codified the various “Berg’s Laws” in one convenient place. It’s high time I updated things. Berg’s First Law of Liberal Iraq Commentary – “No liberal commentator is capable of addressing more than one of the President’s justifications for the War in Iraq at a time; to do so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,23,6],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-4564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-geekery","category-mitch","tag-bergs-7th-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564","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=4564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33287,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564\/revisions\/33287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}