{"id":2157,"date":"2013-10-12T12:19:20","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T17:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2013-10-12T12:23:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T17:23:24","slug":"complimentary-earplugs-15100-slate-political-gabfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2013\/10\/12\/complimentary-earplugs-15100-slate-political-gabfest\/","title":{"rendered":"Complimentary Earplugs (15\/100) &#8211; Slate Political Gabfest"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2130\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2130\" style=\"width: 549px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/10\/1374994_10201479609903424_1861137139_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2130\" alt=\"GOP ransom note (used by permission)\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/10\/1374994_10201479609903424_1861137139_n.jpg\" width=\"549\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/10\/1374994_10201479609903424_1861137139_n.jpg 549w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/10\/1374994_10201479609903424_1861137139_n-247x300.jpg 247w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOP ransom note via <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/vqg4vG80cy\" target=\"_blank\">Mama Jibing Hells<\/a> (used by permission)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been following the government shutdown in the U.S. you may have noticed that it can be tricky to stay on top of the story, as news of the next major impasse comes down the internet pipes every day.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, the folks over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/podcasts\/gabfest.html\" target=\"_blank\">Slate Political Gabfest<\/a> have taken to doing a <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/SlatePoliticalGabfest\" target=\"_blank\">daily audio wrap-up<\/a> which makes it fairly easy to keep up with the dysfunctional shit-show that is the 113th U.S. Congress. They are a bit slanted to the left of center, but then so am I, of late. The GOP sent a load of far-right anti-science denialists (many of whom reject <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c1FfLiWybmI\" target=\"_blank\">climate-change<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/10\/06\/paul-broun-evolution-big-bang_n_1944808.html\" target=\"_blank\">evolution<\/a> by natural selection) \u00a0to D.C. and now should anyone be surprised \u00a0that they turn out to be irrational\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2013\/10\/07\/2742581\/the-complete-guide-to-the-rise-of-the-debt-ceiling-truthers\/\" target=\"_blank\">denialists<\/a> on political and arithmetic matters as well?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been following the government shutdown in the U.S. you may have noticed that it can be tricky to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-complimentary-earplugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}