{"id":7662,"date":"2010-01-22T22:50:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T06:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7662"},"modified":"2010-01-22T22:49:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T06:49:12","slug":"worst-week-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7662","title":{"rendered":"Worst. Week. Ever."},"content":{"rendered":"

Never thought I’d miss the 2000s, but if this week is any indication of what’s to come, can we please roll back the clock?<\/p>\n

Hundreds of thousands died in Haiti. Detainees were revealed to have been murdered in American custody<\/a> at Gitmo. Democracy died<\/a> again<\/i> in Diebold’s Massachusetts<\/a>. A faint hope for reviving the death of the public’s<\/i> airwaves dies yet again as Air America dies<\/a>. And the U.S. Supreme Court commits mass murder<\/a> of everbody and everything else that had still been left teetering.<\/p>\n

Worse. Week. Ever.<\/p>\n

As it happened, I was previously scheduled to be a guest on Peter B. Collins<\/a>‘ podcast yesterday to discuss MA. Suffice to say, the conversation ended up a bit broader, and a great deal darker.<\/p>\n

If you’d like to listen, if you can stand to, it’s now posted here…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Never thought I’d miss the 2000s, but if this week is any indication of what’s to come, can we please roll back the clock? Hundreds of thousands died in Haiti. Detainees were revealed to have been murdered in American custody at Gitmo. Democracy died again in Diebold’s Massachusetts. A faint hope for reviving the death […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,89,405,3,8,420,28,83,125,127,233,313],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brad-blog","category-media-appearance","category-bush-legacy","category-dieboldpremier","category-election-2004","category-election-2010","category-election-reform","category-john-kerry","category-massachusetts","category-the-constitution","category-us-senate","category-us-supreme-court"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7662"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}