{"id":377,"date":"2009-03-18T00:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T00:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/03\/18\/three-people\/"},"modified":"2009-03-18T00:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T00:42:00","slug":"three-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/03\/18\/three-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Three people&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;who I wish would shuffle off into the obscurity of history.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/7947460.stm\">The Pope<\/a>, for speaking out against condom distribution in Africa (abstinence is the answer, apparently).<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s Science Minister, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20090317.wgoodyear16\/EmailBNStory\/National\/home\">Gary Goodyear<\/a>, for showing the tell-tale signs of being a creationist (H\/T <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/people\/trgregory\/blog\/2009\/03\/17\/canadas-science-minister-refuses-to-answer-question-about-evolution\">Ryan Gregory<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/british-columbia\/story\/2009\/03\/16\/bc-borderprotectionism.html\">Some US Immigration agent <\/a>for not letting a Canadian into the country to attend a tradeshow on the grounds that he was &#8220;stealing American jobs&#8221;. Seriously, weren&#8217;t they supposed to be cutting down on shit like this? I suppose he should count himself lucky he didn&#8217;t get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/articles\/2009\/03\/05\/man_at_border_asks_for_manners_gets_pepper_spray\/\">pepper sprayed<\/a>*.<\/p>\n<p>Bugger off, all three of you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%\">*I should say that I consider anyone who &#8220;repeatedly&#8221; asks a border official to do <em>anything<\/em> to be an idiot. But still.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;who I wish would shuffle off into the obscurity of history. The Pope, for speaking out against condom distribution in Africa (abstinence is the answer, apparently). Canada&#8217;s Science Minister, Gary Goodyear, for showing the tell-tale signs of being a creationist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/03\/18\/three-people\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,45,15,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-people","category-canada","category-creationism","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}