{"id":4749,"date":"2011-11-05T09:22:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T14:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=4749"},"modified":"2011-11-05T09:22:29","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T14:22:29","slug":"did-you-ever-notice-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=4749","title":{"rendered":"Did you ever notice how"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>old guys with bushy eyebrows and wierd hair get crankier as they age until they just eventually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/06\/us\/andy-rooney-mainstay-on-60-minutes-dead-at-92.html\">die?<\/a> (Warning: Link takes you to the liberal Deathstar) <\/p>\n<p>Andy was what he was. He was often a moron, but he stood on the ground during WW2, so he wasn&#8217;t a mama&#8217;s boy. He&#8217;s an example of what can sometimes happen when people are confronted with the actual Truth; on seeing the concentration camps as a reporter for Stars and Stripes he recanted his views as a pacifist.  he later slipped back into that stupidity, causing me to have to create <strong>Og&#8217;s fifth law<\/strong>: <em>Some people need regular confrontation with the stark ugliness of reality to remind them that feelings and beliefs fix nothing. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Andy, love or hate you, I always appreciated your commentary.<\/p>\n<p>On the subject of Snark: Back issues of PUNCH are available, free, for Kindle. This is where snark was invented. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&#038;field-keywords=punch#\/ref=sr_st?keywords=punch&#038;qid=1320502663&#038;rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Apunch&#038;sort=price\">Read them.<\/a>  Some samples:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWe live in strenuous times. The Mad Mullah has been reported in action and Willesden has won the London Draughts&#8217; Tournament.<br \/>\nBy the way, those who remember the Mad Mullah&#8217;s earlier escapades are of the opinion that it is high time for him to be killed again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Jolly Bachelors&#8221; is the title of a new club at Nottingham. No attempt has yet been made to start a Jolly Husbands&#8217; Club.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>old guys with bushy eyebrows and wierd hair get crankier as they age until they just eventually die? (Warning: Link takes you to the liberal Deathstar) Andy was what he was. He was often a moron, but he stood on the ground during WW2, so he wasn&#8217;t a mama&#8217;s boy. He&#8217;s an example of what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=4749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}