{"id":17819,"date":"2018-11-26T16:57:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T23:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=17819"},"modified":"2018-11-26T16:57:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T23:57:48","slug":"time-for-a-redo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2018\/11\/26\/time-for-a-redo\/","title":{"rendered":"time for a redo"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know… Chuck Klosterman’s book I Wear the Black Hat<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Doesn’t really stand up to the test of time.\u00c2\u00a0 Or at least some of his villains and some of his “escaped villainry”…<\/p>\n

There are three things that stick out here…<\/p>\n

#1:\u00c2\u00a0 Bill Clinton.\u00c2\u00a0 In this book, Clinton sails away.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, ignoring that he’ll be ignoring the whole swarm of anti-Clintonites who stick to the “Er… porked an intern and then lied about it?”…Power Imbalance, anyone? …\u00c2\u00a0 it does appear that, finally, at long last, that group who’d be considered hypocrites — now that it is no longer Clinton that’s standing before any erosion of Roe V Wade against those damned Republicans — and now that everyone’s in a not as to “what happened with Hillary” — and in the wake of MeToo… the opinion of his culture definers has shifted…<\/p>\n

… just as it might with Grover Cleveland if anyone were bothering to reopen the Grover Cleveland files.<\/p>\n

#2:\u00c2\u00a0 Political Correctness.\u00c2\u00a0 He calls it a dead issue, only fit for a Charles Krauthammer (rip) editorial.\u00c2\u00a0 The “progressive” trajectory of all things lay all things aside into a waste repository.
\nIf you say so.\u00c2\u00a0 Beyond polls showing everyone everywhere gnassing their teeth on this, who the hell did we just elect and why, and why is nobody anywhere happy with lines of illiberalism forming about college campuses?<\/p>\n

#3:\u00c2\u00a0 Tied in with the pc comments, Andrew Dice Clay.\u00c2\u00a0 The book pooh poohs the career he had, appearances on Entourage, as though it were nothing.\u00c2\u00a0 Except it isn’t nothing — it’s… a career… in the shadow of his time in the spotlight.\u00c2\u00a0 As fodder for the sitcom “The Goldbergs” — the abrasive offensive character comedian that befuddles the grampa, he moves on to an interesting sounding new show.\u00c2\u00a0 His career looks like its ending up shining more brightly than Louis CK, who… you know, we know his act wasn’t precisely an act… though, the career trajectory seems to have split — we’ll see when Louis CK ends up doing something on film instead of random club appearances…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know… Chuck Klosterman’s book I Wear the Black Hat… Doesn’t really stand up to the test of time.\u00c2\u00a0 Or at least some of his villains and some of his “escaped villainry”… There are three things that stick out here… #1:\u00c2\u00a0 Bill Clinton.\u00c2\u00a0 In this book, Clinton sails away.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, ignoring that he’ll be ignoring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17820,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17819\/revisions\/17820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}