{"id":2734,"date":"2006-04-20T04:45:47","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T11:45:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-04-20T04:45:47","modified_gmt":"2006-04-20T11:45:47","slug":"what-a-bunch-of-sissies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/20\/what-a-bunch-of-sissies\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Bunch of Sissies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mindless snark.&#8221; A &#8220;cheap shot.&#8221; That&#8217;s how <a href=http:\/\/instapundit.com\/archives\/029767.php>Glenn Reynolds<\/a> and his <a href=http:\/\/www.proteinwisdom.com\/index.php\/weblog\/entry\/20182\/>sorority<\/a> <a href=http:\/\/xrlq.com\/2006\/04\/19\/reasontmably-mindless-snark\/>sisters<\/a> have characterized the following blog post by Jesse Walker of <i>Reason<\/i>:<\/p>\n<ul><b>The Past Is Another Planet<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Glenn Reynolds, <a href=http:\/\/reason.com\/9908\/letters.shtml>writing<\/a> in <i>Reason<\/i> in 1999:<\/p>\n<p><i>[O]ur current situation\u2013with so many foreign troop deployments that even military buffs can&#8217;t keep track of them all and with wars initiated essentially on presidential whim\u2013would have horrified the Framers.<\/i><\/ul>\n<p>The post has been updated since then, but this original morsel is what provoked hissy fits among the hawks. Um, where&#8217;s the snark? Where&#8217;s the cheap shot? If I squint, I can maybe see a slight <i>smirk<\/i> in the Reynoldsesque presentation, though if that&#8217;s what Walker was shooting for, he forgot to append the requisite &#8220;Huh,&#8221; &#8220;Heh,&#8221; or &#8220;Indeed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But our angry little <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bend_Sinister>Paduks<\/a> can&#8217;t stand to have their words read back to them, even without comment.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mindless snark.&#8221; A &#8220;cheap shot.&#8221; That&#8217;s how Glenn Reynolds and his sorority sisters have characterized the following blog post by Jesse Walker of Reason: The Past Is Another Planet Glenn Reynolds, writing in Reason in 1999: [O]ur current situation\u2013with so many foreign troop deployments that even military buffs can&#8217;t keep track of them all and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2734"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}