{"id":67,"date":"2001-10-11T12:57:55","date_gmt":"2001-10-11T17:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2001\/10\/11\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-27T19:02:02","modified_gmt":"2005-10-27T23:02:02","slug":"the-right-on-gundam-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2001\/10\/11\/the-right-on-gundam-wing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Right on Gundam Wing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I do intend to blog about the trip, but it will be a long one, so I’m not going to do it now.<\/p>\n

Here is something that has amused me: (From conwebwatch<\/a>)<\/p>\n

From the logical-fallacy department: In a column titled “No More Pencils. No More Books. School is Full of Commie Crooks” that appeared Aug. 16 on CNS, Fredrick Meekins of the Free Congress Foundation decries the concept of “confiscatory redistribution” of school supplies:<\/p>\n

No longer will little Johnnie be allowed to march into the first day of class with his new shiny pencil box or glossy notebook tucked happily under his arm. Instead, Johnnie is to supply a pencil box purchased by Mommy and Daddy to be surrendered to credentialed pedagogues to be dispensed with as they see fit. For example, a student could end up bringing a really cool “Star Wars” or “Gundam Wing” notebook only to have it snatched and replaced with one sporting an insignia promoting some asinine leftwing cause such as recycling or nuclear disarmament.<\/p>\n

The problem: Meekins never cites a single example of where this is taking place, which suggests that it probably isn’t taking place anywhere other than his head. He’s spent an entire column ranting about something he can’t prove even exists. (Though he does get a bonus point for recognizing the coolness of “Gundam Wing.”)<\/p>\n

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I do intend to blog about the trip, but it will be a long one, so I’m not going to do it now. Here is something that has amused me: (From conwebwatch) From the logical-fallacy department: In a column titled “No More Pencils. No More Books. School is Full of Commie Crooks” that appeared Aug. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}