{"id":8631,"date":"2010-02-12T07:05:32","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T12:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8631"},"modified":"2010-02-12T08:27:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T13:27:55","slug":"around-the-mob-grumpy-old-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8631","title":{"rendered":"Around The MOB: Grumpy Old Men"},"content":{"rendered":"

What happens when you get a bunch of guys together who like to write, but don’t want the hassle of running their own blogs?<\/p>\n

Besides the entire newsroom at Shot In The Dark<\/em>, I mean?<\/p>\n

You get a bunch <\/em>of the Twin Cities’, and the MOB’s, growing crew of group blogs.\u00a0 Including one of the newer additions, Grumpy Old Men<\/a>, featuring a phalanx of people you know from other blogs and, indeed, the Shot In The Dark <\/em>comment section; BikeBubba, the prolific Mr. D, K-Rod, Steve (formerly of the late lamented Gigglepundit. I think), and a few others whose names are new but whose styles look oddly familiar.<\/p>\n

Sample? Sure.\u00a0 Bubba captures the “grumpy old man” aethos<\/a> quite nicely:<\/p>\n

The happiness and very life of your daughters, or sons, probably depends on it, according to Charlotte Allen<\/a>. Now she doesn’t come out and say it–her 12 page piece more or less only documents how many promiscuous (and predatory) men use social darwinism to justify their behavior–but the reality is that our children’s defense against the “meat market” mentality appears, if the testimony of the “male sluts” quoted in the article is indicative, to be the willingness of parents to actually raise their children. Overwhelmingly, the “pick up artist” is one who didn’t have a decent relationship with his dad. His victim–the same.<\/p>\n

So polish and clean the old shotgun, and get ready to tell the kid with the jeans hanging halfway off his rear end to get off your porch until he’s wearing something that fits and has his shirt tucked in. Be a grumpy old man, and your kids will be the better for it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Words to live by.<\/p>\n

Make GOM a stop on your <\/em>tour around the MOB!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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