{"id":384,"date":"2007-05-21T12:36:38","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T16:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=384"},"modified":"2007-05-21T12:36:38","modified_gmt":"2007-05-21T16:36:38","slug":"logic-and-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=384","title":{"rendered":"Logic and reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the category of questions that answer themselves, <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/05\/21\/gore-sawyer-interview\/\">Al Gore wonders<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>>why logic and reason and the best evidence available and the scientific discoveries do not have more force in changing the way we all think about the reality we are now facing.<\/p>\n<p>Part of his answer is the &#8220;serial obsessions&#8221; of the media with with Anna Nicole Smith types of stories.  And when they talk about politics, they obsess over the irrelevant details of the political horse race.  And when they obsess over that, they focus on the most tabloid aspects of the election process.<\/p>\n<p>Fair enough.  But this really answers a separate question: why is <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/05\/20\/seven-more-us-soldiers\/\">no one interested in the reality we are facing<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the category of questions that answer themselves, Al Gore wonders, >why logic and reason and the best evidence available and the scientific discoveries do not have more force in changing the way we all think about the reality we are now facing. Part of his answer is the &#8220;serial obsessions&#8221; of the media with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=384\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Logic and reason<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","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=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}