{"id":182994,"date":"2015-04-18T06:17:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/04\/18\/snark-of-the-day-49\/"},"modified":"2015-04-18T06:17:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T11:17:00","slug":"snark-of-the-day-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/04\/18\/snark-of-the-day-49\/","title":{"rendered":"Snark of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In response to a Michigan auto mechanic saying that he would refuse to serve gays, a lawyer has offered his services.<\/div>\n<p>The kicker is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2015\/04\/bankruptcy-lawyer-mockingly-offers-services-to-anti-gay-michigan-auto-shop-after-fundraiser-fails\/\">he is a bankruptcy attorney<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/opinion\/grand-rapids\/index.ssf\/2015\/04\/an_open_letter_to_the_michigan.html\">mocking open-letter<\/a> to a Michigan auto repair shop owner following his anti-gay Facebook rant, a Grand Rapids bankruptcy attorney has offered his services to deal with the economic consequences of the business owner\u2019s \u201cinane, incoherent and just plain dumb comments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Grandville auto shop owner Brian Klawiter posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2015\/04\/michigan-auto-repair-shop-owner-rants-on-facebook-no-service-for-gays-in-the-name-of-freedom\/\">a rambling attack on gays on Facebook,<\/a> saying he would not service their cars, adding, \u201cHomosexuality is wrong, period. If you want to argue this fact with me then I will put your vehicle together with all bolts and no nuts and you can see how that works.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Sensing a business opportunity, Grand Rapids bankruptcy attorney Jeffrey Mapes, posted an open letter on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/opinion\/grand-rapids\/index.ssf\/2015\/04\/an_open_letter_to_the_michigan.html\">Michigan Live<\/a>, saying he too is \u201cwhite, male, Christian, a business owner, and a gun owner,\u201d and is willing to handle Klawiter\u2019s future needs despite his \u201cinane, incoherent and just plain dumb comments\u201d on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>He then offered words of inspiration in the wake of the Facebook post that has caused Klawiter grief , quoting from the Adam Sandler film, \u201cBilly Madison.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat you\u2019ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to a Michigan auto mechanic saying that he would refuse to serve gays, a lawyer has offered his services. The kicker is that he is a bankruptcy attorney: In a mocking open-letter to a Michigan auto repair shop owner following his anti-gay Facebook rant, a Grand Rapids bankruptcy attorney has offered his services &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,1005,1100,1030,1050],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-business","category-funny","category-lgbtq","category-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182994"}],"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=182994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}