{"id":1538,"date":"2010-01-19T23:08:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T04:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2010-01-20T15:47:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T20:47:36","slug":"against-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=1538","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Against Stupidity the Gods Themselves Struggle in Vain.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; <em>Friedrich Schiller<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Brown-Cosmo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1537\" title=\"Brown Cosmo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Brown-Cosmo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Brown-Cosmo.jpg 600w, https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Brown-Cosmo-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scott Brown;<em> Cosmopolitan<\/em> magazine, June 1982<\/p>\n<p>Now the rest of the Cosmo centerfolds know they can be elected to the US Senate.  If they&#8217;re reactionary rich white men, that is, who march to orders like Caligula&#8217;s Senate-nominated horse.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats should never have forgotten the tale of the scorpion and the frog.  Appeasing the now-lunatic fringe Republican party is the equivalent of trying to befriend the creature from <em>Alien<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the world of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Handmaids-Tale-Everymans-Library\/dp\/0307264602\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1264001887&#038;sr=1-2\"><em>The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale<\/em><\/a>.  When is the next starship for Tau Ceti??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; Friedrich Schiller Scott Brown; Cosmopolitan magazine, June 1982 Now the rest of the Cosmo centerfolds know they can be elected to the US Senate. If they&#8217;re reactionary rich white men, that is, who march to orders like Caligula&#8217;s Senate-nominated horse. The Democrats should never have forgotten the tale of the scorpion and the frog. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology-and-culture","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}