{"id":608,"date":"2007-08-14T01:33:05","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T01:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=608"},"modified":"2007-08-14T01:33:05","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T01:33:05","slug":"karl-roves-brain-lizards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"Karl Rove&#8217;s Brain Lizards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <a href=http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/6943814.stm>Karl Rove is to resign<\/a>. If the wickedness of Tony Blair could be said to arise from his infatuation with his own unfolding narrative, and that of George W Bush from his absolute lack of creativity and empathy, then the wickedness of Karl Rove could be said to arise from the gnawing sharp-toothed brain lizards that sit inside his skull where other people have a &#8220;conscience&#8221;.<br \/>\nThe article says: &#8220;There&#8217;s always something that can keep you here, and as much as I&#8217;d like to be here, I&#8217;ve got to do this for the sake of my family,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nTranslating that from the brain lizard: &#8220;I&#8217;ve presided over such a fouling of my own pool that even I can&#8217;t handle the stink any more.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Oh, and where it says &#8220;family&#8221;, he means the Cheney inner circle, not his wife and son.  There&#8217;s a subpoena coming his way and he really needs to be out of the White House circuit for damage control purposes.)<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nIn good news: <a href=http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/20122975\/site\/newsweek\/page\/0\/>Newsweek runs a cover story on the climate change denial industry<\/a>.<br \/>\nAnd, via Paul Cornell, <a href=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Rh-TGAqDfgk>clips from every single classic Doctor Who story<\/a> forming a 5-minute summary of the classic series run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Karl Rove is to resign. If the wickedness of Tony Blair could be said to arise from his infatuation with his own unfolding narrative, and that of George W Bush from his absolute lack of creativity and empathy, then the wickedness of Karl Rove could be said to arise from the gnawing sharp-toothed brain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=608\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Karl Rove&#8217;s Brain Lizards<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-9O","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}