{"id":5071,"date":"2010-11-03T18:30:26","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T22:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5071"},"modified":"2010-11-03T15:36:45","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T19:36:45","slug":"wednesday-various-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5071","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Yeah, I think John Scalzi <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2010\/11\/03\/election-thoughts-2010\/\">pretty much sums up<\/a> how I feel about last night&#8217;s election results:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2010\/09\/15\/how-to-lose-the-house\/\">as I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve noted before<\/a>, the GOP may have put a gun to the head of the Democratic majority in the house, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the Democrats who said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153dude, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re holding it wrong,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d jammed the gun into their own temple, and then pulled the trigger. The most accurate word I have for my feelings about the Democrats right now is <i>disgust<\/i>; disgust that they could get elected on a platform of substantial change, execute on many of the changes they campaigned on, and then allow the GOP and its allies to turn those actions in liabilities \u00e2\u20ac\u201d well, again, <i>disgust<\/i> is not too strong a word.<\/p>\n<p>Dear Democrats: You managed to lose the House in historic proportions to a party whose strategy was to harness the inchoate anger of old white people so stupid that they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sense the inherent contradiction of screaming about a smaller government whilst cashing their federal checks. You are morons. Please find someone who can play this game and put them in charge of your electoral strategy, because what you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re doing now isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t working. Also, henceforth, every time you whine about Fox News and shadowy financiers of the Tea Party, we get to beat you with a hammer. This is the political landscape now. Deal with it<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>Not to knock <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/a-cure-for-the-common-cold-may-finally-be-achieved-as-a-result-of-a-remarkable-discovery-in-a-cambridge-laboratory-2122607.html\">a cure for the common cold<\/a>, or the research that will have gone into it, but it seems to me there are significantly larger health risks that we face than sore throats, runny noses, and sneezes. Is the common cold the holy grail just because of its ubiquity? Is the idea that if we can cure <i>that<\/i>, we can cure anything?<\/li>\n<li>I continue to find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/arrest-warrants-issued-for-randy-and-evi-quaid-to,47141\/\">the story of Randy Quaid and his wife<\/a> sad and strangely fascinating.<\/li>\n<li>But at least Quaid&#8217;s just starring in movies I don&#8217;t want to go see. <i>Some<\/i> people divorced from reality <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/11\/03\/rand-paul-plutocracy\/\">actually got elected last night<\/a>. It would almost be amusing if Rand Paul didn&#8217;t think there were any poor people, if he wasn&#8217;t now an elected representative.\n<p>Frankly, it&#8217;s like Scalzi also says in that post above:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And oddly enough, most people <i>aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t<\/i> the whole package of white, male, heterosexually-paired and well-off. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m puzzled that enough of you keep looking out for <i>me<\/i>, even when I really don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want or need the help. Really, folks, I and people like me are <i>fine<\/i>. Take care of yourselves, please.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>And finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/stuff\/41\/monolith-action-figure.shtml\">the Monolith Action Figure<\/a>. Zero points of articulation! [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/\" title=\"SF Signal\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I think John Scalzi pretty much sums up how I feel about last night&#8217;s election results: But as I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve noted before, the GOP may have put a gun to the head of the Democratic majority in the house, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the Democrats who said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153dude, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re holding it wrong,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d jammed the gun into their &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5071\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[175,67,177,60,6,38,10],"class_list":["post-5071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-actors","tag-america","tag-medicine","tag-money","tag-politics","tag-science","tag-various"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}