And just in case you’ve forgotten, Terri Schiavo, drilling in ANWR? Distractions. I say ANWR is a distraction because nobody really wants to drill up there anyway. I doubt it’s profitable, given the opportunity cost, and the total oil capacity of the place wouldn’t begin to cover US consumption for a year. It’s a distraction from social security; it’s a distraction from congressional embarrassment. Keeping us focused on the unimportant things. Call me a media conspiracy lunatic if you want. Just don’t come bitching to me when our parents are begging on the street. <\/p>\n
All hail the new feudalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
And just in case you’ve forgotten, Terri Schiavo, drilling in ANWR? Distractions. I say ANWR is a distraction because nobody really wants to drill up there anyway. I doubt it’s profitable, given the opportunity cost, and the total oil capacity of the place wouldn’t begin to cover US consumption for a year. It’s a distraction … Continue reading “A friendly reminder: Media Distraction Game”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}