{"id":529,"date":"2006-08-01T06:34:53","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T11:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=529"},"modified":"2006-08-01T09:14:18","modified_gmt":"2006-08-01T14:14:18","slug":"vive-le-something-or-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"Vive le something-or-other!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/denbeste.nu\/Chizumatic\/\">Den Beste<\/a> is <a href=\"?p=452\">at it again<\/a>, this time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/53446\">fencing with some lunatic<\/a> Castro supporter in a metafilter thread.  <\/p>\n<p>The Castro fan is going by the name &#8220;Mayor Curley&#8221;, and he has some posts that are both shocking and hilarious once you realize he&#8217;s dead serious.  To simultaneously champion the cause of the little guy <em>and<\/em> support Castro is quite a mental challenge.  I can&#8217;t imagine the sheer force of will required to bend one&#8217;s thinking unil understanding is so totally at odds with perceptions.  This isn&#8217;t like trusting flimsy economic data or anecdotal evidence.  This isn&#8217;t buying into urban legends.  This isn&#8217;t starting with a false assumption. This is believing that the sky is pink and everyone who claims it to be blue is a mindless brain-washed puppet of The Corporations. He&#8217;s not just divorced from reality.  No, he divorced reality, then reality got the house, and took out a restraining order against him.  His posts would be less alarming if he just wrote &#8220;All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy&#8221; over and over and over.<\/p>\n<p>I know I said I try to avoid politics, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m going to offend anyone here by saying that this guy is screaming, poo-flinging, drooling, howling-at-the-moon, raving, <em>loco <strong>insane<\/strong><\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Good luck with that, Steven.  And don&#8217;t get any on you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Den Beste is at it again, this time fencing with some lunatic Castro supporter in a metafilter thread. The Castro fan is going by the name &#8220;Mayor Curley&#8221;, and he has some posts that are both shocking and hilarious once you realize he&#8217;s dead serious. To simultaneously champion the cause of the little guy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}