{"id":3044,"date":"2010-07-26T09:16:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T16:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=3044"},"modified":"2010-07-26T09:17:04","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T16:17:04","slug":"now-thats-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=3044","title":{"rendered":"Now, That’s<\/em> Satire!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like most people, I imagine, I have a morning ritual I go through most weekdays whilst preparing for the day. All the usual stuff, of course: exercise, bathe, coffee, breakfast, coffee, dress, coffee, morning commute\u2014admittedly, a total of 45 steps down a flight of stairs into the basement, but a commute nonetheless\u2014and coffee. From there, one of the first things I do is to scan a selection of Web sites for important and\/or interesting news and information. Accelerate Your Mac<\/a>, Snopes<\/a>, Slashdot<\/a>, Endgadget<\/a>, EcoGeek<\/a>, Versiontracker<\/a>, SmallNetBuilder<\/a>, US-CERT’s Cyber-Security Bulletin<\/a> and the forums of a couple of hardware vendors whose products I use both personally and professionally. Then there’s a few sites trawled for their pure entertainment value: Fark<\/a>, Penny Arcade<\/a>, Dork Tower<\/a>, Kotaku<\/a>, Cute Overload<\/a>, Daily KOS<\/a>, and Wonkette<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I don’t usually do much more than skim Wonkette; not because it isn’t funny and clever and quite to the point, but because it tends to be a bit too aggressive for my taste. Or rather, Wonkette on top of my regular early weekday morning wake-up of Stephanie Miller<\/a> is a bit too aggressive for my taste. One or the other is fine, but both stacked on top of each other is a bit too much snark for that time of the morning. And since I started listening to Stephanie Miller first, she gets grandmothered in.<\/p>\n

However, I just became aware of Wonkette’s ongoing comic strip entitled Ayn Rand’s Adventures in Wonderland<\/a>, by artist, blogger and Wonkette contributor Benjamin Frisch<\/a>, and I suggest that everyone go and take a look at it. It is a delicious, bile-fortified, snark-frosted scone of satire, fit for any breakfast buffet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like most people, I imagine, I have a morning ritual I go through most weekdays whilst preparing for the day. All the usual stuff, of course: exercise, bathe, coffee, breakfast, coffee, dress, coffee, morning commute\u2014admittedly, a total of 45 steps down a flight of stairs into the basement, but a commute nonetheless\u2014and coffee. From there, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roominations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3044"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3074,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions\/3074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}