{"id":5327,"date":"2009-08-31T05:44:03","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T10:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5327"},"modified":"2009-08-31T15:36:47","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T20:36:47","slug":"a-gang-rape-in-minnesota-progressive-project-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5327","title":{"rendered":"A Gang-Rape In Minnesota Progressive Project<\/i> Country"},"content":{"rendered":"

I try – oh, Lord, I try – to be civil.\u00a0 To exercise the better me.\u00a0 To disagree without being disagreeable.\u00a0 I try to let the better me shine through as much as I can. I truly do.<\/p>\n

But when the subject is The Minnesota Tragedy of Spyrchaetal Paresis<\/strike> “Progressive” Project<\/em>, it’s truly difficult.\u00a0 Because the MToSP<\/strike>PP writers whose entire oeuvre <\/em>isn’t dim-witted lying<\/a> or disingeuous babble<\/a>…<\/p>\n

…are just so very, very, very, very dumb<\/a>.\u00a0 A writer called “Mark My Words” wrote this piece, about a bit of anti-gay graffiti in Washington County:<\/p>\n

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Imagine getting up in the morning, grabbing your coffee thermos and heading for the garage ready for work. \u00a0You hit the door-opener, and you back your sedan out and mindlessly hit the clicker to close the garage-door. \u00a0And while you’re in reverse, aiming your trunk-lid into traffic on your country-lane, you realize that this has been spray-painted in giant-sized green letter across 13 feet on the front of your house:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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HIV AIDS gay help<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/center>Right?! \u00a0<\/p>\n

Welcome to Ross Sveback’s world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’d say “read the whole thing”, but I’m not sure if your next of kin might not sue me for endangering your sanity.<\/p>\n

No, it’s not the piece itself, which is a fairly rote recitation of the facts of a case the WashCo Sheriff is looking into.<\/p>\n

No.\u00a0 It’s the title.\u00a0 “Homophobic Vandalism hits in Bachmann Country<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

Not one word connecting the vandalism (which, incidentally, I condemn) to Minnesota’s most conservative representative.<\/p>\n

Not one bit of evidence that indicates the graffiti was politically-related at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bachmann’s opponents are to derangement what Nicole Ritchie is to “vacuous”.\n<\/p>\n

UPDATE: I’m going to recap what commenter Thorley Winston said; the correct response to this crime is to condemn the act of vandalism without qualification. And I do. I hope they catch the little twerp – and I’d suspect Rep. Bachmann does, too.<\/p>\n

Just a hunch, but I’m comfortable with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I try – oh, Lord, I try – to be civil.\u00a0 To exercise the better me.\u00a0 To disagree without being disagreeable.\u00a0 I try to let the better me shine through as much as I can. I truly do. But when the subject is The Minnesota Tragedy of Spyrchaetal Paresis “Progressive” Project, it’s truly difficult.\u00a0 Because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,79,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-slander-files","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5327","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=5327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}