{"id":713,"date":"2007-08-29T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T09:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=713"},"modified":"2007-08-29T06:52:36","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T10:52:36","slug":"wednesday-open-thread-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2007\/08\/29\/wednesday-open-thread-70\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, it turns out Larry Craig isn&#8217;t gay, and to prove it, he&#8217;s planning on spending a weekend this winter locked in a cabin with nothing but Ted Haggart, a gallon of massage oil, and a couple ounces of crank.  I hear Rush Limbaugh is willing to ship them a couple hundred doses of Viagra, too (from his award-winning Dominican Republic stash).  Well, at least old Larry didn&#8217;t go for the &#8220;there was a scary black guy there, so I offered to pay to let me blow him, &#8216;cuz if there&#8217;s one thing you can ever do to placate a scary black guy, it&#8217;s offer to blow him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You have to wonder if it&#8217;s starting to dawn on these twisted, hate-filled, jeezus-praising morons just how fucking stupid they are for having fallen for the line of bullshit these hypocrites have been selling &#8217;em all these years.  Nah, prob&#8217;ly not.  And that&#8217;s OK, I guess. It isn&#8217;t about reality, it&#8217;s about faith. <\/p>\n<p>I always wonder why people of &#8220;faith&#8221; always seem to get so goddamn upset by people who don&#8217;t subscribe to their little beliefs. I mean, you&#8217;re right, I&#8217;m wrong, and I&#8217;m going to hell.  Isn&#8217;t that enough for you?  Life&#8217;s short, so why not just sit back and let us damn ourselves for all eternity, while you sit back, relax and smile smugly?  It isn&#8217;t enough you get raptured up, while I burn in hell?  You have to try to make me fucking miserable for what little time I have left here on earth, too?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it isn&#8217;t just the bible-thumpers that do that.  People get downright violently upset when you don&#8217;t happen to share whatever belief it is they have (be it religion, UFO&#8217;s, their pet conspiracy theories, whatever).  Why anybody should care what anybody else thinks (or who they sleep with) is beyond me.  All I&#8217;ve ever wanted is to basically be left alone to do my own thing in peace (and don&#8217;t be rubbing my foot while I&#8217;m trying to do it).  I think that&#8217;s all most people want.  Why that isn&#8217;t good enough for the likes of Jerry Falwell and Fred Phelps is beyond me.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, it turns out Larry Craig isn&#8217;t gay, and to prove it, he&#8217;s planning on spending a weekend this winter locked in a cabin with nothing but Ted Haggart, a gallon of massage oil, and a couple ounces of crank. I hear Rush Limbaugh is willing to ship them a couple hundred doses of Viagra, [&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-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","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=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}