{"id":6100,"date":"2006-03-05T19:42:01","date_gmt":"2006-03-06T02:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=6100"},"modified":"2006-03-05T19:42:01","modified_gmt":"2006-03-06T02:42:01","slug":"impotence-and-peppermints-meaningless-nouns-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=6100","title":{"rendered":"Impotence and Peppermints, meaningless nouns… (updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sure, our enemies are laughing at us<\/a>—but hell, at least we had <\/i>the moral highground.\n<\/p>\n

\nUntil that asshole Bush came along and muddied the waters with all his neocon warmongering.  Now, not only will Iran get nukes (and likely use them), but we don’t even get to claim we stood astride history yelling “peace, my Muslim brothers” right up until the moment the immense flash and the glorious, purifying fire of Allah provides us with a moment of frozen clarity.\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd if we don’t live to see Iran go nuclear while we refused to act to prevent it, well, then the terrorists will have already won—something I know to be a fact because Maureen Dowd whispered it in my ear while she was drunk on Bud drafts and trying to slip a dollar bill down my pants at a Mets exhibition game.\n<\/p>\n

\n****
\n
\n(h\/t Alarming News<\/a>, who has much more; also, see American Digest<\/a>, “Don’t Worry.  Be Happy About Iran”)\n<\/p>\n

\nupdate<\/i><\/b>:  …As if on cue, here’s<\/a> John Kerry, reiterating the global test he denied advocating for.  Which, if I have this correct, means he was for it before he was against it before he was for it.  And that, mathematically speaking, makes him…what, a transnational progressivist?  An ass…?\n<\/p>\n

\nMath was never really my strong suit.  (h\/t Allah)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sure, our enemies are laughing at us—but hell, at least we had the moral highground. Until that asshole Bush came along and muddied the waters with all his neocon warmongering.  Now, not only will Iran get nukes (and likely use them), but we don’t even get to claim we stood astride history yelling “peace, my Muslim brothers” right up until the moment the immense flash and the glorious, purifying fire<\/p>\n

Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9196393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}