{"id":377,"date":"2005-12-22T00:05:09","date_gmt":"2005-12-22T04:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/22\/two-things-that-have-cheered-me-today\/"},"modified":"2005-12-22T00:05:09","modified_gmt":"2005-12-22T04:05:09","slug":"two-things-that-have-cheered-me-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/22\/two-things-that-have-cheered-me-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Two things that have cheered me today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1) Meditating on the amusing fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_E._Jones_III\">the judge<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/20\/scopes-trial-v20-has-better-result\/\">Pennsylvania &#8220;intelligent design&#8221; case<\/a> was appointed by Bush. This puts a whole different spin on my notion that the &#8220;engage the base&#8221; machine would be going after the judge.<\/p>\n<p>2) Reading all the reactions to the decision, summarized so well at <a href=\"http:\/\/thequestionableauthority.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/kitzcarnival.html\">The Questionable Authority<\/a>. <em>&#8220;The judge clearly has extrordinarily keen observational tal&#8230;OK, let&#8217;s be honest. The lies were so bloody obvious that figuring out that someone was lying really didn&#8217;t require much more than a pulse. But Judge Jones still gets credit for speaking truth about this in his decision.&#8221;<\/em> Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">1) Meditating on the amusing fact that the judge in the Pennsylvania &#8220;intelligent design&#8221; case was appointed by Bush. This puts a whole different spin on my notion that the &#8220;engage the base&#8221; machine would be going after the judge. 2) Reading all the reactions to the decision, summarized so well at The Questionable Authority. &#8220;The judge clearly has extrordinarily&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/22\/two-things-that-have-cheered-me-today\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-65","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}