{"id":8698,"date":"2010-02-17T07:08:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T12:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8698"},"modified":"2010-02-17T07:08:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T12:08:19","slug":"around-the-mob-heavy-handed-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8698","title":{"rendered":"Around The MOB: Heavy-Handed Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my trip around the MOB, I’ve been amazed at the number of bloggers I’ve found who’ve been plugging away for years that aren’t on my personal blog radar.<\/p>\n

I mean, I do<\/em>, pinky swear, try to read as many blogs as I can.\u00a0 Honest.\u00a0 But there’s only so many hours in a day, and it seems like there are fewer now than there were a few years ago.\u00a0 And I have to hope they’re on someone’s <\/em>radar, because they’re not only good, but they’re diligent; they’ve been cranking out material for…<\/p>\n

…well, in the case of today’s stop, h Heavy Handed Politics<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>almost six years.\u00a0 Which is pretty formidable, if you think about it.<\/p>\n

Sometimes it’s not just what a blog says; it’s what it exposes you to.\u00a0 I’ve been looking for some great writers’ pithy quote on the asininity of “bipartisanship” for its own sake for years; HHP <\/strong>found it for me<\/a>, in this piece by David Mastio in the WashTimes (I’ll add emphasis):<\/p>\n

Bipartisanship may be the single most destructive force in Washington. Today, it is on the lips of the president, congressional leaders and commentators alike. They say we need a new tone in Washington. We need to work together on health care reform. We need a bipartisan commission to solve our deficit problem.<\/p>\n

No. We. Don’t. Bipartisanship saps faith in politics and government. It protects the most stupid and counterproductive federal policies. It erodes ethics. It unites America’s ruling class against the ruled<\/strong>. And, inevitably, it leads to the growth of government power<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And for that quote, alone – one to which I’ll be paying homage for years – I owe HHP a debt of gratitude for the rest of my blogging and talk-show-hosting life.<\/p>\n

So check out Heavy Handed Politics<\/em>.\u00a0 Who knows what you’ll stumble across?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my trip around the MOB, I’ve been amazed at the number of bloggers I’ve found who’ve been plugging away for years that aren’t on my personal blog radar. I mean, I do, pinky swear, try to read as many blogs as I can.\u00a0 Honest.\u00a0 But there’s only so many hours in a day, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mob"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8698","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=8698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8699,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8698\/revisions\/8699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}