{"id":4587,"date":"2013-12-22T13:06:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T18:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4587"},"modified":"2013-12-22T13:06:03","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T18:06:03","slug":"ad-effeminandos-animos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4587","title":{"rendered":"ad effeminandos animos*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.businessinsider.com\/image\/52b109ac6da811907849d77c-800-\/screen%20shot%202013-12-17%20at%209.33.05%20pm.png\" width=\"480\" height=\"241\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The above image was tweeted by Barackobama.com last week. I suppose the idea is that people should talk about health insurance while they do the usual non-alcoholic holiday things.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, this image has also forced some people to regress to adolescent bullying. <a href=\"http:\/\/alicublog.blogspot.com\/2013\/12\/the-stupidest-thing-ever-written-until.html\">Here&#8217;s the always regrettable Jonah Goldberg<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you try to play out the life of Pajama Boy in your mind, he probably has a girlfriend. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just that she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wearing the pants in the relationship, as they used to say. I picture her like Sarah Silverman in School of Rock or the girlfriend at the beginning of Office Space who everyone knows is cheating on Peter.<\/p>\n<p>[\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6]<\/p>\n<p>Pajama Boy is a Low-T liberal who wears a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153this is what a feminist looks like\u00e2\u20ac\u009d T-shirt and flinches whenever his girlfriend makes a sudden movement\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So the argument goes like this: the sissy in the photograph, who has a girlfriend who physically dominates him, demonstrates that the Affordable Care Act does not address America&#8217;s health care needs.<\/p>\n<p>*<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacred-texts.com\/cla\/jcsr\/dbg1.htm\">Caesar, de Bello Gallico I.1<\/a>: &#8220;Of all these, the Belgae are the bravest, because they are furthest from the civilization and refinement of [our] Province, and merchants least frequently resort to them, and import those things which tend to effeminate the mind&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above image was tweeted by Barackobama.com last week. I suppose the idea is that people should talk about health insurance while they do the usual non-alcoholic holiday things. Sadly, this image has also forced some people to regress to adolescent bullying. Here&#8217;s the always regrettable Jonah Goldberg: If you try to play out the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4587\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ad effeminandos animos*<\/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":[678,1036,1810,1809,102,1808],"class_list":["post-4587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-ad-hominem-abusive-2","tag-bullying","tag-de-bello-gallico","tag-homophobia","tag-jonah-goldberg","tag-low-t"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587","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=4587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4588,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587\/revisions\/4588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}