{"id":65896,"date":"2018-02-09T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65896"},"modified":"2018-02-08T21:57:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T03:57:51","slug":"words-will-never-harm-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65896","title":{"rendered":"Words Will Never Harm Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

This American Life\u00a0<\/em>is a guity…well, occasionally pleasure.\u00a0 Sometimes just guilt.<\/p>\n

But every once in a while – twice a year – they run an episode that’s so good, I wind up driving around the Midway and Roseville for half an hour waiting for it to finish.<\/p>\n

This past weekend was one of them<\/a> –\u00a0 partly because it was just so good, and partly because the timing was perfect.<\/p>\n

Part 1 (they call them “Act 1” and “Act 2”, and so on, which is far fron the twee-est, most precious and pretentious thing about\u00a0TAL<\/em>) is a story with, by Public Radio standards, a real “Man Bites Dog” is a nice\u00a0apertif<\/em> – a story about a young feminist Youtube “star” who discovers – try not to be shocked – that her fellow travelers on the left are really really intolerant of dissent.\u00a0 \u00a0Give the whole thing a listen.<\/p>\n

Part 2?\u00a0 After all the\u00a0 gumflapping this week about Republicans’ in Minnesota and their relationship with Muslims – including my own go-arounds with members of the GOP over this issue – “Act 2” goes over the problems a staunchly pro-gun legislator in one of Louisiana’s most conservative parishes had when she proposed a bijll that would have banned realistic replica guns in schools.\u00a0 The bill was neither an attack on the 2nd Amendment nor an especially good idea (it should be a local ordinance, not a state statute for starters), but the tendency of people to get wrapped around the axle over\u00a0surface terminology<\/em> without really understanding an issue is pretty astounding.\u00a0 \u00a0The\u00a0TAL\u00a0<\/em>reporter, by the way, did a credible job of explaining the pro-gun side (although I don’t suspect she understands it all that well).<\/p>\n

Worth a listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This American Life\u00a0is a guity…well, occasionally pleasure.\u00a0 Sometimes just guilt. But every once in a while – twice a year – they run an episode that’s so good, I wind up driving around the Midway and Roseville for half an hour waiting for it to finish. This past weekend was one of them –\u00a0 partly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65896","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=65896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65897,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65896\/revisions\/65897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}