Since it’s been brought up:\u00a0 all local left-wing bloggers have been cleared of suspicion of arson in the early-Tuesday fire that destroyed my garage.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Well, no – that’s putting it a little prejudicially.\u00a0 Let’s be a little more accurate; Saint Paul’s arson investigator ruled out<\/em> arson, bright and early in the process.\u00a0 So no left-wing bloggers are currently under suspicion…<\/p>\n …Dammit!\u00a0 <\/em>OK.\u00a0 Let me try again.\u00a0 There was no arson at all.\u00a0 Period.\u00a0<\/p>\n A number of leftybloggers were brought up in the comment section – jokingly – as mock “suspects” in the incident.\u00a0 For what it’s worth, I try to abjure linking people, even public or “public” figures, with abhorrent behavior ( Even if they are <\/em>good.<\/p>\n So nope.\u00a0 No arson here.\u00a0 Nothing to see here but a new garage starting on Monday.\u00a0 I hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since it’s been brought up:\u00a0 all local left-wing bloggers have been cleared of suspicion of arson in the early-Tuesday fire that destroyed my garage.\u00a0 Well, no – that’s putting it a little prejudicially.\u00a0 Let’s be a little more accurate; Saint Paul’s arson investigator ruled out arson, bright and early in the process.\u00a0 So no left-wing […]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-5108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108","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=5108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27627,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108\/revisions\/27627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}like, say, photoshopping them into Nazi uniforms or comparing gettogethers with Nuremburg rallies<\/strike>); it’s a rhetorical low blow akin, at best, to asking when one stopped beating one’s wife, at least when the humor is not clearly <\/em>understood.\u00a0 Since politics inflames the passions like few other things, attempts at humor often fall flat across the ideological divide.\u00a0<\/p>\n