{"id":5385,"date":"2010-02-01T14:17:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T21:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/02\/01\/5385\/"},"modified":"2010-02-01T14:17:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T21:17:04","slug":"5385","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/02\/01\/5385\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cosmopolitan Magazine 1906 &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpers.org\/archive\/2010\/02\/hbc-90006463\">The Senate Sucks<\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8230;. and here I thought Cosmopolitan&#8217;s past <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/video\/cosmopolitan_institute_completes\">looked like this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>FBI, Telecoms&#8230; Wire-tap laws&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2010\/01\/fbi-att-verizon-violated-wiretapping-laws\/\">you know the rest<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The surreal thing is the cognitive dissonance I felt when I first heard this story, with a favorable slant toward these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2010\/02\/01\/2806227.htm?section=world\">erstwhile Baptist Church Child Kidnapping crew<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AdmULsIEyEI\">Your classic bit of Johnny Carson <\/a>&#8212; Reagan bit, or Abbott and Costello<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcna.co.jp\/item\/2010\/201001\/news31\/20100131-08ee.html\">Kim Jong Il Enjoys Art Performance by Itinerant Youth Art Squad<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slacktivist.typepad.com\/slacktivist\/2010\/01\/stop-demanding-that-you-get-screwed.html\">Congratulations, Angry Populistes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/chris-kelly\/clown-time-james-okeefe-e_b_444912.html\">James O&#8217;keefe<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The Future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/2010\/02\/01\/2010-02-01_tsa_employee_charles_henry_bennett_plotted_to_make_teen_his_sex_slave_cops_say.html\">TSA worker tried to make customer his &#8220;Sex Slave<\/a>&#8220;.\u00c2\u00a0 Note: that and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/news\/local\/20100121_Daniel_Rubin__It_was_no_joke_at_security_gate.html\">this<\/a> as exhibit 1 and 2 for why I&#8217;m paranoid about the body scan images.<\/p>\n<p>Weekly Standard engages in some wistful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/articles\/ideologue\">Clinton revisionist <\/a>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/articles\/don\u00c3\u00a2\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u2122t-mess-success\">for their standpoint<\/a>) memories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cosmopolitan Magazine 1906 &#8212; The Senate Sucks. &#8230;. and here I thought Cosmopolitan&#8217;s past looked like this. FBI, Telecoms&#8230; Wire-tap laws&#8230; you know the rest The surreal thing is the cognitive dissonance I felt when I first heard this story, with a favorable slant toward these erstwhile Baptist Church Child Kidnapping crew. Your classic bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-erstwhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5385","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=5385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}