{"id":603,"date":"2003-07-04T01:23:15","date_gmt":"2003-07-03T20:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/603"},"modified":"2003-07-04T01:23:15","modified_gmt":"2003-07-03T20:23:15","slug":"the-law-is-an-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/603","title":{"rendered":"The law is an ass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Scalia:<\/p>\n<p>When a neighbor peeks in our bedroom windows, they are called perverts and peeping toms and get arrested.<\/p>\n<p>When the government peeks in our bedroom windows, it&#8217;s sanctioned by law and they are congratulated for saving us from ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Know what I think?  Anyone who peeks in my windows is a pervert.  And if they&#8217;re traumatized for life by the sight of my big fat white naked body, that&#8217;s what they deserve.<\/p>\n<p>WTF is a homosexual agenda anyway?  I know lots of gay people.  I guess I&#8217;m just not cool enough to be recruited.<\/p>\n<p>Know what else I think?  The gummint has no business making laws about abortion, gay marriage, sexual conduct between consenting adults, whether I wear a seatbelt, what food I can eat, or really much of anything else.  Just because <i>you<\/i> don&#8217;t like it, Mr. Lawmaker, doesn&#8217;t mean it should be illegal.  I don&#8217;t like cilantro; I think it tastes terrible.  Should I lobby to outlaw it?<\/p>\n<p>What is <i>wrong<\/i> with people?  Oh, I&#8217;m so frustrated.  Political parties suck, all of them.  I don&#8217;t like them, and I think they should be made illegal, so there.<\/p>\n<p><b>Addlepated in 2004!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Scalia: When a neighbor peeks in our bedroom windows, they are called perverts and peeping toms and get arrested. When the government peeks in our bedroom windows, it&#8217;s sanctioned by law and they are congratulated for saving us from ourselves. Know what I think? Anyone who peeks in my windows is a pervert. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}