{"id":3502,"date":"2010-02-17T16:26:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T21:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=3502"},"modified":"2012-04-14T17:24:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T22:24:24","slug":"amy-bishop-dd-made-me-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=3502","title":{"rendered":"Amy Bishop: D&#038;D made me do it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the shooter at Alabama was embroiled in the dark and dangerous world of&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/thephoenix.com\/BLOGS\/dontquoteme\/archive\/2010\/02\/16\/herald-on-bishop-d-amp-d-made-her-do-it.aspx\">Dungeons and Dragons.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Since this is an ivory tower academic, it couldn&#8217;t possibly be because she was just a sociopathic nutcase academic who thought of herself as a member of the intellectual elite. Or maybe the gun just did it by itself. No, had to be the D&#038;D. <\/p>\n<p>I look for Tam to start shooting up the folks at Whole Foods because she can&#8217;t get any of her favorite Hummus. She does, after all, have a close affiliation with <a href=\"http:\/\/c2.com\/cgi\/wiki?RolePlayingGame\">polygonal dice. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>No, wait, Tam won&#8217;t do that, because she&#8217;s not a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pleonasm\">FLAKY ACADEMIC. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>You see, shooting up a conference room, or a 7-11, or a K-Mart, or  god forbid a daycare center, doesn&#8217;t have anything to do with the availability of GUNS. It doesn&#8217;t have anything to do with a propensity for PLAYING ROLE PLAYING GAMES or listening to Alice Cooper or smoking dope or drinking too many mai-tais. It has to do with you being an OUT OF CONTROL WHACKJOB. <\/p>\n<p>And Academia is lousy with them. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking of academics, here&#8217;s one I actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parentdish.com\/2010\/02\/17\/superintendent-to-teachers-youre-all-fired\/\">LIKE!!!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the shooter at Alabama was embroiled in the dark and dangerous world of&#8230; Dungeons and Dragons. Since this is an ivory tower academic, it couldn&#8217;t possibly be because she was just a sociopathic nutcase academic who thought of herself as a member of the intellectual elite. Or maybe the gun just did it by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}