{"id":181856,"date":"2016-02-28T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T21:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/02\/28\/too-funny\/"},"modified":"2016-02-28T16:19:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T21:19:00","slug":"too-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/02\/28\/too-funny\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Funny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/ilKqRrk.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/ilKqRrk.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a>It appears that during the last Republican debate, when everyone was calling everyone a c*cksucker, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/politics\/news\/a42481\/unintelligible-yelling\/\">whoever was doing the closed captioning threw up his hands in despair<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Last night&#8217;s Republican brawl at recess was best summed up by some anonymous soul working at the closed-captioning desk at CNN who clearly was completely fed up with the idiotic proceedings on stage and decided to let the hearing-impaired citizens of the United States of America know that he was. (In fact, I hope that the hearing-impaired citizens of the United States of America know how lucky they were last night.) This wasn&#8217;t a political debate. This was a pissing contest among men who are worried about the size of their dicks.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><i>(Unintelligible yelling)<\/i><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">Would you have trusted any of these clowns with the nuclear codes? (Maybe John Kasich, but only if there were absolutely no other option, Curly Howard being dead and all.) I wouldn&#8217;t trust any of them to park my car.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><i><br \/>(Unintelligible yelling)<\/i><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">What was your favorite moment? Was it Dr. Ben Carson&#8217;s contention that the &#8220;fruit salad of their lives&#8221; are dangling precipitously on &#8220;the abyss of destruction?&nbsp; What did he mean? Who knows? The mind of Dr. Ben Carson is not the mind of an ordinary man. The mind of Dr. Ben Carson is on loan from a curiosity shoppe somewhere on the moons of Saturn.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps I should start playing the Republican Debate Drinking game, because it does sound entertaining, if not particularly informative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that during the last Republican debate, when everyone was calling everyone a c*cksucker, whoever was doing the closed captioning threw up his hands in despair: Last night&#8217;s Republican brawl at recess was best summed up by some anonymous soul working at the closed-captioning desk at CNN who clearly was completely fed up with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[987,1002,978,977,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fail","category-good-writing","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}