{"id":3036,"date":"2011-07-11T09:44:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T14:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3036"},"modified":"2011-07-11T10:28:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T15:28:28","slug":"time-to-employ-the-tu-quoque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3036","title":{"rendered":"Time to employ the tu quoque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Short items today.<\/p>\n<p>First, according <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/07\/08\/half-of-us-social-pr.html\">one study<\/a>, half of the recipients of social programs (including various tax credits)&nbsp;in the US do not know or believe they are participants.&nbsp; As they continue to&nbsp;demand the government get their hands of their Medicare, or that the government stop treating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolaver.org\/humor\/gwbush.htm\">social security like its some kind of government program<\/a>,&nbsp;one may without reservation employ the tu quoque.<\/p>\n<p>Second, <a href=\"http:\/\/memebase.com\/2011\/07\/06\/memes-hipster-baby\/\">hipster baby<\/a> might inspire a new response to the ultra conservative pro-life types: I was gay before I was born.&nbsp; Then again, perhaps the science is not clear on that, as the careful (though oddly selective) skeptic <a href=\"http:\/\/joemygod.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/pawlenty-gayness-is-choice-unless-it.html\">Tim Pawlenty proclaims<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short items today. First, according one study, half of the recipients of social programs (including various tax credits)&nbsp;in the US do not know or believe they are participants.&nbsp; As they continue to&nbsp;demand the government get their hands of their Medicare, or that the government stop treating social security like its some kind of government program,&nbsp;one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3036\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time to employ the tu quoque<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1149,801],"class_list":["post-3036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-hipster-baby","tag-tu-quoque-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3036"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3040,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions\/3040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}