Wow, I haven’t posted in over a week. I guess things in Iraq have been too depressing to comment on; visit some of the sites to your left for all you could wish of that situation.<\/p>\n
Just had to quote Colby Cosh<\/a> on Svend Robinson, though:<\/p>\n Lord knows I’ve “snapped” and done some ill-advised things myself, but they don’t happen to include grand larceny. My basic attitude, and I believe the only attitude that is ultimately consonant with decent social order, is that felonies are not hard to avoid. A lot of people are mystified or outraged by this proposition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n While I’ve got to give him credit for owning up — finally, honesty in a politician &mdash his record of supporting tyrants (Castro), terrorists (Arafat) and totalitarianism at home (hate-crimes legislation) is not one with which I’m terribly impressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wow, I haven’t posted in over a week. I guess things in Iraq have been too depressing to comment on; visit some of the sites to your left for all you could wish of that situation. Just had to quote Colby Cosh on Svend Robinson, though: Lord knows I’ve “snapped” and done some ill-advised things … Continue reading “The Raving Looney Party”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}