{"id":200567,"date":"2021-03-03T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/03\/03\/headline-of-the-day-165\/"},"modified":"2021-03-03T18:58:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T23:58:00","slug":"headline-of-the-day-165","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/03\/03\/headline-of-the-day-165\/","title":{"rendered":"Headline of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 130%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Joe Biden Owes Neanderthals an Apology After Comments on Texas Mask Mandate Lift<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/politics\/a35716213\/joe-biden-neanderthals-texas-governor-greg-abbott-mask\/\">Charlie Pierce<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, the Texas governor has decided to lift all Covid restrictions, because&nbsp; \u2026\u2026\u2026 <b>TEXAS<\/b>, and the governor of Mississippi has decided to lift all Covid restrictions, because&nbsp; \u2026\u2026\u2026 they can&#8217;t abide <b>TEXAS <\/b>out-stupiding them.<\/p>\n<p>Biden described this as, &#8220;Neanderthal Thinking,&#8221; which is, as the eminently quotable Mr. Pierce notes, unfair to <i>Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis<\/i>, who by all indications were just as capable and intelligent as our own <i>Homo Sapiens <\/i><i>Sapiens<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I think that we should give Texas back to Mexico, if they will take it.<\/p>\n<p>As to Mississippi,could<b> <\/b><i>someone<\/i> please take them?&nbsp; Anyone?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/vYYzNvM.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/vYYzNvM.gif\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden Owes Neanderthals an Apology After Comments on Texas Mask Mandate Lift \u2014Charlie Pierce Yes, the Texas governor has decided to lift all Covid restrictions, because&nbsp; \u2026\u2026\u2026 TEXAS, and the governor of Mississippi has decided to lift all Covid restrictions, because&nbsp; \u2026\u2026\u2026 they can&#8217;t abide TEXAS out-stupiding them. Biden described this as, &#8220;Neanderthal Thinking,&#8221; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1225,1285,978,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paleontology","category-pandemic","category-politics","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200567"}],"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=200567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}