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<\/p>\nYes, we have no Erinyes, we have no Erinyes today.<\/p>\n
I tried. I really did. I thought they would be interested in treason and sedition. Dante would have. He put traitors in the lowest circle of hell.<\/p>\n
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But when I started reading them this story<\/a>, they started laughing. I mean they were rolling on the floor. And they wouldn't stop. And I realized they were just not going to be willing to follow up on this one.<\/p>\n Here's how it starts <\/a>(you'll need to click through for the whole thing because I don't want to violate Leonard Pitts Jr.'s copyright, but trust me, it's worth it.) You be the judge. Was I being unreasonable?<\/p>\n He brought his rifle up at the sound of footsteps crunching the Oregon snow. "Who goes there? Stop and be recognized."<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n A weary voice answered out of the darkness. "It's me, Sam. It's Bud."<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n "Give me the password."<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n "Come on, Sam. Stop foolin' around."<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n "The password," Sam insisted.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Bud sighed. "'Patriots act.' Are you happy now?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Sam lowered the weapon as Bud stepped out of the trees into the meager circle of moonlight.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n "Can't be too careful," he said. He cupped his hands and blew into them. It was cols out here. "So where you been?" he asked.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n "Down to the front gate."<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Sam grinned. "Bet you it's a zoo. Bunch of satellite trucks and media elites standing around. Who all's down there? CNN? NBC? CBS Sure hope Fox sends that Megyn Kelly. That babe can interview me any time…." <\/em><\/strong> (Click through for the rest.)<\/p>\n Well, right or wrong, the Furies are not interested. And it's probably just as well. There's a new wrinkle now, and really, this was all the story needed:<\/a> (Don't feel guilty about laughing – the humour is not at the expense of anyone but the haters, I promise. Read the comments if you don't believe me. Heck, read the comments anyway.)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Oops, this just in – trouble in paradise!<\/a> See TomCat's Open Thread also!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So, The long and the short of it is that I have nothing today for the Furies to do. <\/p>\n I guess even they are influenced by the media, ya think?<\/p>\n But there is material out there.<\/p>\n We will be back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yes, we have no Erinyes, we have no Erinyes today. I tried. I really did. I thought they would be interested in treason and sedition. Dante would have. He put traitors in the lowest circle of hell. But when I started reading them this story, they started laughing. I mean they […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/4\/3538\/3339553189_a56e4c9d8a_m.jpg\")
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