{"id":15770,"date":"2012-08-28T04:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=15770"},"modified":"2012-08-28T04:04:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T11:04:00","slug":"open-thread-ten-years-of-alas-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=15770","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread: Ten Years of &#8220;Alas&#8221; Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/iMwyun2KUI8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The must-read article of last week, at least for lefties: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2012\/09\/fear-of-a-black-president\/309064\/\">Fear of a Black President &#8211; Ta-Nehisi Coates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxturtlebulletin.com\/2012\/08\/27\/48095\">GOP reportedly sides with incarceration and execution of gay Africans<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/squid314.livejournal.com\/\">a randomly selected person with<\/a> the belief that he is Jesus has a 1\/100,000 chance of being Jesus and a 99,999\/100,000 chance of being a psychotic.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bulwer-lytton.com\/2012win.html\">The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, 2012 winnners announced<\/a>! Surely this is the best contest of all contests, no contest. My favorite entry this year was written by Rebecca Oas: &#8220;Ronald left this world as he entered it: on a frigid winter night, amid frantic screams and blood-soaked linens, while relatives stood nearby and muttered furious promises to find and punish the man responsible.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkinggrounds.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/sexy-body-disfigured-body.html\">Sexy Body, Disfigured Body<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/economix.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/24\/evidence-vs-ideology-in-the-medicare-debate\/\">Evidence vs. Ideology in the Medicare Debate<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/wp\/2012\/08\/22\/the-real-romney-ryan-budgets-cuts-arent-to-medicare-theyre-to-programs-for-the-poor\/\">The real Romney-Ryan budgets cuts aren\u2019t to Medicare. They\u2019re to programs for the poor.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theagitator.com\/2012\/08\/26\/florida-deputy-uses-spidey-sense-to-establish-probable-cause\/\">Florida Deputy Uses Spidey-Sense to Establish Probable Cause<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/M6wJl37N9C0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"590\" height=\"443\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nTranscript <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feministe.us\/blog\/archives\/2012\/08\/27\/will-i-be-pretty\/\">here on Feministe<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The must-read article of last week, at least for lefties: Fear of a Black President &#8211; Ta-Nehisi Coates GOP reportedly sides with incarceration and execution of gay Africans &#8220;&#8230;a randomly selected person with the belief that he is Jesus has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=15770\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-farms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15771,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15770\/revisions\/15771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}