{"id":948,"date":"2007-06-18T13:22:29","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T19:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/06\/18\/pina-coladas-walks-in-the-rain-yadda-yadda\/"},"modified":"2007-06-18T13:22:29","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T19:22:29","slug":"pina-coladas-walks-in-the-rain-yadda-yadda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=948","title":{"rendered":"Pina Coladas, Walks In The Rain, Yadda Yadda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Brodkorb is one of the best bloggers in Minnesota today.\u00a0 He’s at the leading edge of a revolution in journalism.\u00a0 There is more solid, worthwhile content in a days’ worth of posting in Minnesota Democrats exposed than there is in six months on Minnesota Monitor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He’s also a valued colleague of mine on the Northern Alliance Radio Network, someone who’s grown into the (amateur) radio business with great panache.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But I gotta confess – I don’t care what’s on Dean Barkley’s Match.com profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong; I don’t much care for the “Independence” Party’s former Senate candidate (and, for a brief stretch, appointed senator after the death of Paul Wellstone and before the swearing-in of Norm Coleman)\u00a0and likely future sacrificial lamb<\/strike> candidate in the Sixth CD against Michele Bachmann, who also served as a sort of shadow governor during the Ventura Administration.\u00a0 He’s a big part of the reason the “libertarian populist” that the media fancied Ventura governed as a mushy-center-left DFL Lite goober.<\/p>\n

But as a fellow single guy, I gotta say – let’s leave Barkley’s personal life out of the public discussion.\u00a0\u00a0A person’s family, and\/or his primary relationship (and especially<\/em> any kids involved)\u00a0– no matter what their party, platform or for that matter preferences – should be their refuge <\/em>from all the BS of public life.\u00a0 His search – even on a personals website – should be his own business.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I’ve condemned leftybloggers in the past for their habit of publishing peoples’ work and home numbers and bringing hordes of drooling droogs after the families of those who disagree with them.\u00a0 This isn’t quite the same – it’s a personal profile, not a home address – and ergo in no way as base and loathsome.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But it’s high time there was a gentleman’s (and ladies’) agreement; leave peoples’ personal lives out of the public conversation, unless that life affects their ability to do the job.\u00a0<\/p>\n

(And if Barkley’s “likes” from his ad are commentary on his fitness for office, then I guess I’m going to stick with radio).<\/p>\n

Brodkorb’s one of the best bloggers in town.\u00a0 But Mike, while I gotcher back as a rule, I’m gonna sit this one out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Brodkorb is one of the best bloggers in Minnesota today.\u00a0 He’s at the leading edge of a revolution in journalism.\u00a0 There is more solid, worthwhile content in a days’ worth of posting in Minnesota Democrats exposed than there is in six months on Minnesota Monitor.\u00a0 He’s also a valued colleague of mine on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","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=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}