{"id":7816,"date":"2010-01-14T07:27:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T12:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7816"},"modified":"2010-01-14T07:27:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T12:27:32","slug":"stuff-from-an-old-notebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7816","title":{"rendered":"Stuff From An Old Notebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in the eighties, I thought it’d be fun to get a group of conservatives together and publicize a “Tachometer to Tyranny”.\u00a0 It’d have basically been a gauge of some sort that would represent the consensus of a number of conservative thinkers about the speed at which the world was driving towards one-world dictatorship.<\/p>\n

Of course <\/em>it would have\u00a0 been a biased indicator!\u00a0 That was the point!<\/p>\n

It was, of course, a response to the “Bulletin of Atomic Scientists'” “Doomsday Clock”, which was\u00a0 prominently on display during the eighties as a barometer (to mix my gauges) of lefty opinion about the state of the world.<\/p>\n

It’s baaaaaaaaaaaack:<\/a><\/p>\n

The minute hand of the famous Doomsday Clock will be moved at 3pm this afternoon, for the first time in two years.<\/p>\n

The timepiece in New York conveys how close humanity is to catastrophic destruction, which is represented by midnight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m wondering if the\u00a0 media – which cover every “adjustment” of the clock with breathless, unquestioning credulity – ever asked themselves “why was it that the “Bulletin’s” “scientists” became the most pants-wettingly depressed about Ronald Reagan’s actions – the very actions that made it possible to adjust the clock “backwards” shortly after his administration?<\/p>\n

Oh, that’s right.\u00a0 Must not question them; the science is settled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in the eighties, I thought it’d be fun to get a group of conservatives together and publicize a “Tachometer to Tyranny”.\u00a0 It’d have basically been a gauge of some sort that would represent the consensus of a number of conservative thinkers about the speed at which the world was driving towards one-world dictatorship. Of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-and-its-making","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7816","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=7816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7817,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7816\/revisions\/7817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}