{"id":190781,"date":"2009-10-26T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/26\/jon-stewart-is-a-fing-genius-he-should-get-a-peabody-edition\/"},"modified":"2009-10-26T13:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T18:12:00","slug":"jon-stewart-is-a-fing-genius-he-should-get-a-peabody-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/26\/jon-stewart-is-a-fing-genius-he-should-get-a-peabody-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart is a F%$#ing Genius, He Should Get a Peabody Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a call into Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye&#8217;s office regarding reports that there may be changes to Al Franken&#8217;s amendment prohibiting the writing of new contracts to contractors who use binding arbitration in discrimination cases, including, &#8220;any tort related to or arising out of sexual assault or harassment, including assault and battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, false imprisonment, or negligent hiring, supervision, or retention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While I am waiting for his office&#8217;s response, let&#8217;s have Jon Stewart put it all in perspective:<\/p>\n<p><embed style=\"display: block;\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:252468\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"window\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"autoPlay=false\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allownetworking=\"all\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" width=\"360\" height=\"301\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a call into Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye&#8217;s office regarding reports that there may be changes to Al Franken&#8217;s amendment prohibiting the writing of new contracts to contractors who use binding arbitration in discrimination cases, including, &#8220;any tort related to or arising out of sexual assault or harassment, including assault and battery, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1052,1008,969,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes","category-defense-procurement","category-evil","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190781"}],"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=190781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}