{"id":6538,"date":"2020-10-24T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=6538"},"modified":"2020-10-22T15:13:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T19:13:04","slug":"meanwhile-a-much-needed-bit-of-comic-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/meanwhile-a-much-needed-bit-of-comic-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"MEANWHILE, A MUCH-NEEDED BIT OF COMIC RELIEF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As what may be the most important election of our gun-owning lives approaches, tensions are high.&nbsp;&nbsp;We need comic relief. We can combine that with a lesson on how&nbsp;<em>not&nbsp;<\/em>to relieve tensions created by fear of \u201celectile dysfunction.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s no secret that some (though not necessarily all) of the talking heads on CNN are what is known colloquially as \u201cjerk-offs.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;Offered in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonian.com\/2020\/10\/20\/the-best-reactions-to-the-jeff-toobin-zoom-dick-incident\/.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"n evidence. (opens in a new tab)\"> evidence.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, he was there in the Zoom thing for what was described as an \u201celection simulation.\u201d Maybe he\u2019s hard of hearing, and it\u2019s not his fault that \u201celection simulation\u201d sounds a lot like \u201cerection stimulation.\u201d Po-TAY-to, po-TAH-to.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Give him points for determination. He has said he\u2019s going to \u201cstick it out\u201d for a while\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will someone be so offended as to demand criminal charges of indecent exposure, or file a lawsuit alleging that they were traumatized by the incident?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If so, a key question is going to be\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026will the evidence stand up in court?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As what may be the most important election of our gun-owning lives approaches, tensions are high.&nbsp;&nbsp;We need comic relief. We can combine that with a lesson on how&nbsp;not&nbsp;to relieve tensions created by fear of \u201celectile dysfunction.\u201d It\u2019s no secret that some (though not necessarily all) of the talking heads on CNN are what is known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6540,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538\/revisions\/6540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}