{"id":6498,"date":"2009-06-05T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T08:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/06\/the-im-just-so-bored-strategy-for-apologizing-for-grave-evil\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T14:56:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T21:56:22","slug":"the-im-just-so-bored-strategy-for-apologizing-for-grave-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/06\/the-im-just-so-bored-strategy-for-apologizing-for-grave-evil.html","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;I&#8217;m just so *bored*&#8221; strategy for apologizing for grave evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>It\u2019s a tried and true way of tried to simply stamp out legitimate moral objections that won\u2019t go away, so naturally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/danielle-cavallucci\/abortion-catholicism-cant_b_210600.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">you find it at HuffPo<\/a>.  Simply declare the objections that your opponents are so <em>over<\/em> or say something like \u201cWe\u2019ve heard it all before\u201d as you continue pressing for great evil with a string of emotive gibberish, insults, and non sequiturs wrapped up in some of the most tortured syntax I\u2019ve seen in years.  Season with Gaia worship to taste and you\u2019ve got something Arianna Huffington regards as a reasoned argument.  <a href=\"http:\/\/insightscoop.typepad.com\/2004\/2009\/06\/there-must-be-an-argument-in-there-somewhere.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Carl Olson has way too much fun fisking the whole mess<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a tried and true way of tried to simply stamp out legitimate moral objections that won\u2019t go away, so naturally you find it at HuffPo. 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