{"id":72490,"date":"2019-10-29T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72490"},"modified":"2019-10-27T08:39:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T13:39:46","slug":"redundant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72490","title":{"rendered":"Redundant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It&#8217;s about time for President Trump to suggest that Congress repeal Title IX and eliminate Girls&#8217; Sports on the grounds that since\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.redstate.com\/brandon_morse\/2019\/10\/25\/ncaa-names-man-female-athlete-week-leaves-key-details\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boys can compete in Girls sports simply by declaring themselves Girls<\/a>, having a separate sports system is a wasteful, duplicative, expensive boondoggle.\u00a0<br>We&#8217;ll just have one system, winner take all. True, boys will win everything forever, but that&#8217;s where we&#8217;re headed anyway so might as well jump right into it.<br>The money we save can be used to build The Wall.<br>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Joe, of course, is aware of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=5033\">Berg&#8217;s 21st Law<\/a>: &#8220;When it comes to \u201cprogressive\u201d policy, yesterday\u2019s absurd joke is today\u2019s serious proposal and tomorrow\u2019s potential law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And satire, like Joe&#8217;s sarcastic note, is <a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/motorcycle-that-identifies-as-bicycle-sets-world-cycling-record\">closer to the news than the news is<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s about time for President Trump to suggest that Congress repeal Title IX and eliminate Girls&#8217; Sports on the grounds that since\u00a0Boys can compete in Girls sports simply by declaring themselves Girls, having a separate sports system is a wasteful, duplicative, expensive boondoggle.\u00a0We&#8217;ll just have one system, winner take all. True, boys will win everything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72490","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=72490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72491,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72490\/revisions\/72491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}