{"id":1476,"date":"2009-08-14T06:59:44","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T10:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2009-08-14T08:23:34","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T12:23:34","slug":"1476","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2009\/08\/14\/1476\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday the 14th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, we brought you the story of a shameless woman who, when accused by Five-0 of talking on a cell phone, had the audacity of saying, &#8220;no I di-int,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2009\/08\/criminal_justice_expert_ononda.html\">and was promptly tasered<\/a> (and will be live on the Today Show this morning; amazing what you gotta do to get on the teevee, but I reckon getting zapped with a taser is easier than giving birth to octuplets).  <\/p>\n<p>Today, it&#8217;s the story of a man released from prison after a mere 3 weeks for daring to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/08\/13\/clifton-williams-illinois_n_259214.html\">yawn in court<\/a> (it was apparently a very loud yawn).  What&#8217;s next?  Possibly a requirement to turn yourself in to the authorities for improper thought (we&#8217;ll have to rely on self-reporting, at least until they develop a thoughtometer that will alert the police when you&#8217;re thinking something you shouldn&#8217;t be &#8211; maybe light up a giant red &#8220;A&#8221; on your forehead &#8211; for &#8220;asshole,&#8221; not &#8220;adultery&#8221; &#8211; or something).  One thing that remains legal, though, is shooting black guys (assuming you&#8217;re a white police officer, anyway) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/08\/13\/andrew-dunton-cleared-in_n_258726.html\">even if that black guy turns out to be an off-duty cop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of adultery, looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/local\/politics\/story\/5791651\/\">John Edwards is getting ready to admit that he&#8217;s Rielle Hunter&#8217;s baby daddy<\/a>.  Why do I care? I don&#8217;t know, but it&#8217;s apparently almost as important as <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/thedishrag\/2008\/11\/bonnie-fuller-w.html\">Michelle Obama&#8217;s red dress<\/a>.  As an aside, wouldn&#8217;t you just love to see her smack that Stepford Wife look off Pickles&#8217; puss (I mean, not <strong><em>really<\/em><\/strong>, but kinda sorta)?<\/p>\n<p>Turning to the world of assholery, who&#8217;s the bigger asshole?  Michael Vick, or whoever it was in the Philadelphia Eagles&#8217; organization that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=t&#038;ct2=us%2F0_0_s_1_0_t&#038;usg=AFQjCNEka-DZilWCRDF5B8AJBKuzJ6rZtA&#038;sig2=lp96cvCEP44j506-0ILsbw&#038;cid=1296546534&#038;ei=2ECFStCILIba8QSripudAQ&#038;rt=SEARCH&#038;vm=STANDARD&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fsports%2Ffootball%2Fnfl%2Feagles%2F2009-08-13-vick-main_N.htm\">decided it would be OK to sign him<\/a>?  Tough call there, but I reckon I&#8217;ll go with Vick.  Don&#8217;t give me that culture of the South or whatever bullshit; I&#8217;m not buying it.  I&#8217;m as much a bleeding heart liberal as the next guy, but certain things I just can&#8217;t get past, and hurting kids or animals is right at the top of the list.<\/p>\n<p>But, hey, whatever.  At least it&#8217;s finally frackin&#8217; Friday.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YXfyhqXxf3E&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YXfyhqXxf3E&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, we brought you the story of a shameless woman who, when accused by Five-0 of talking on a cell phone, had the audacity of saying, &#8220;no I di-int,&#8221; and was promptly tasered (and will be live on the Today Show this morning; amazing what you gotta do to get on the teevee, but I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}