{"id":89398,"date":"2025-03-17T07:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T12:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89398"},"modified":"2025-03-17T07:46:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T12:46:22","slug":"unforgiven-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89398","title":{"rendered":"Unforgiven"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today&#8217;s the anniversary of Minnesota&#8217;s Great Leap Backward. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"953\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1024x953.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-89399\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1024x953.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-300x279.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-768x715.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-322x300.png 322w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Me?  I was on my way home from the office, listening the governor on MPR as he announced the most draconian set of emergency powers in Minnesota history.   On the way, I stopped at a Total Wine.   The store has eight checkout lines, of which two are normally operating; I&#8217;ve never waited in a line longer than three deep, even then.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All eight registers were humming, stacked 6-7 people deep, and the store was packed.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>They needn&#8217;t have worried; big box liquor stores, and big box stores of all kinds, found themselves exempted from the Governor&#8217;s swerve into autocracy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But small businesses were forced to close &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74126\">unless they were lucky enough to be Walz contributors<\/a> &#8211; and were utterly gutted.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76878\">schools remained closed for a year and a half<\/a> &#8211; and children still haven&#8217;t recovered.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And while state government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2020\/04\/10\/what-the-states-model-tells-us-about-minnesotas-covid19-response\">beggared the whole notion of &#8220;science&#8221;,<\/a> it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73893\">fairly clear early on that<\/a> the most dire predictions were going to fall flat.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So no. I&#8217;m not ready to make nice yet.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s the anniversary of Minnesota&#8217;s Great Leap Backward. Me? I was on my way home from the office, listening the governor on MPR as he announced the most draconian set of emergency powers in Minnesota history. On the way, I stopped at a Total Wine. The store has eight checkout lines, of which two are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89398","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=89398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89401,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89398\/revisions\/89401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}