{"id":922,"date":"2007-06-13T09:19:45","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T15:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/06\/13\/moonlighting\/"},"modified":"2007-06-13T15:52:47","modified_gmt":"2007-06-13T21:52:47","slug":"moonlighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=922","title":{"rendered":"Moonlighting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had wondered about fisking the new Nick Coleman column &#8211; in which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/357\/story\/1242231.html\">he accuses Republicans of being behind a sinister cabal<\/a> to gut public school sex ed, and if we really cared for kids we&#8217;d let the same public school teachers who can&#8217;t teach them math, reading or history turn around and show them how not to get pregnant when doing the wang bang diddly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He stated his case with his usual diplomatic tact&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0A new Gallup poll shows nearly half the country doesn&#8217;t believe in evolution (including two-thirds of Republicans), proving that the rapid stupefaction of America continues unabated.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t believe me, I have a new Minnesota sex-education law to show you. Or, rather, not to show you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;but Wog over at Wog&#8217;s Blog <a href=\"http:\/\/wogsblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/return-of-laura-billings.html\">noticed something else<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In reading a column in Section B of the Incredible Shrinking Star Tribune, I as struck by it&#8217;s resemblance to the screeds if Laura Billings, the best fire the Pioneer Press ever made. Well, they bribed her to quit anyway, and the readers rejoiced.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s some self righteous blather about troglodyte Republicans plotting to get sex education out of the schools.<\/p>\n<p>The subject, the hysteria, the condescending wise ass tone, the mediocre writing and the utter boringness of the piece had Billings all over it.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing Un-Billings about it was the byline, husband NickBoy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmmmm.\u00a0 Can we do a DNA test on a column?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and when you go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wogsblog.com\/\">Wog&#8217;s blog<\/a> (and please do &#8211; he&#8217;s sounding depressed about his traffic, and he <em>does <\/em>write a blog that deserves a helluvva lot more), wish him luck; it looks like he&#8217;s slowly edging closer to a needed liver transplant.<\/p>\n<p>How&#8217;s <em>that <\/em>for a hard sell?<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:\u00a0 Kouba <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthvmachine.com\/?p=4714\">also shreds Coleman<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had wondered about fisking the new Nick Coleman column &#8211; in which he accuses Republicans of being behind a sinister cabal to gut public school sex ed, and if we really cared for kids we&#8217;d let the same public school teachers who can&#8217;t teach them math, reading or history turn around and show them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","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=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}