{"id":51417,"date":"2015-02-20T07:13:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T13:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51417"},"modified":"2015-02-20T07:13:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T13:13:13","slug":"a-legal-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51417","title":{"rendered":"A Legal Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a long, long time – but I’ve codified a new Berg’s Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s Berg’s Sixteenth:<\/p>\n

Berg’s Sixteenth Law of Cognitive Dissipation<\/strong>: \u00a0The percentage of “progressives” outside of academia who can make it to the second round of a debate without running out of “facts” and having to switch to deflection,\u00a0ad hominem<\/em>\u00a0and straw man arguments is within the statistical margin of error.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And I’m working on a corollary to deal with the academics, who aren’t actually much better – just a little more polished.<\/p>\n

And of course…:<\/p>\n

The McFeely\/McNeill Corollary to Berg’s Sixteenth Law<\/strong>: \u00a0Especially in Minnesota.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s the law. \u00a0I don’t write ’em, I enforce ’em.<\/p>\n

OK. \u00a0I write ’em too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a long, long time – but I’ve codified a new Berg’s Law. It’s Berg’s Sixteenth: Berg’s Sixteenth Law of Cognitive Dissipation: \u00a0The percentage of “progressives” outside of academia who can make it to the second round of a debate without running out of “facts” and having to switch to deflection,\u00a0ad hominem\u00a0and straw man […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51417","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=51417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51418,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51417\/revisions\/51418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}