The times were dire.<\/p>\n
The good people were dispirited.<\/p>\n
Evil <\/strike> silliness seemed to reign supreme, and threatened to overwhelm the good people and their lives.<\/p>\n
The people cried out for a hero.<\/p>\n
And from the <\/font><\/p>\n <\/font><\/p>\n <\/font><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n Enge – the irrepressible one-man conservative counterprotest movement – will be gadflying the “peace” protest at the Marshall-Lake Bridge from 5-6 tonight.<\/em><\/p>\n Enge was responsible for one of my favorite moments in my radio career. Four years ago, at the helm of the Engemobile (a stake-bed pickup festooned with right-leaning banners and flags, and a big honking sound system), Enge was gadflying one of the Smugosphere’s “peace” protests at Summit and Snelling. He called in to the NARN broadcast, then in progress.<\/p>\n I asked him to turn the Engemobile’s sound system over to AM1280, and drive through the intersection slow down in the middle of the crowd of “peace” demonstrators.<\/p>\n He flipped the station on, cranked the speakers, and maneuvered into the crowd. Great to have ya back, Enge. 5PM is a byatch, but I’ll give it my best shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The times were dire. The good people were dispirited. Evil silliness seemed to reign supreme, and threatened to overwhelm the good people and their lives. The people cried out for a hero. And from the east southwest, to the skirl of a plastic Viking horn, one arose: Join me and other Freedom Loving Americans who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,18,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-days-of-adolescent-rage","category-pc","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}east <\/strike>southwest, to the skirl of a plastic Viking horn, one arose:<\/p>\n
\n“Grow up, take a bath, and get a job!<\/p>\n