{"id":60663,"date":"2016-10-21T08:06:57","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T13:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60663"},"modified":"2016-10-21T08:06:57","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T13:06:57","slug":"garbage-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60663","title":{"rendered":"Garbage Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a meme going about – a corruption of “Godwin’s Law”, I think – that says “the first person to refer to Hitler loses”. \u00a0 We’ve been through Godwin’s Law<\/a> and its various permutations in the past.<\/p>\n

But it did bring something to mind.<\/p>\n

When I get into rhubarbs with liberals, it’s pretty much an even bet they’ll cite “data” and “sources” from\u00a0ThinkProgress<\/em>, a blog project of the Center for American “Progress”.<\/p>\n

When this happens, I know (from history<\/a>, no less) that the argument is over – because “Think” “Progress<\/em>” is in its entirety baked wind<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a meme going about – a corruption of “Godwin’s Law”, I think – that says “the first person to refer to Hitler loses”. \u00a0 We’ve been through Godwin’s Law and its various permutations in the past. But it did bring something to mind. When I get into rhubarbs with liberals, it’s pretty much an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-alt-media","category-lefty-alt-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60663","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=60663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60664,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60663\/revisions\/60664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}