{"id":497,"date":"2009-05-26T13:33:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T13:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=497"},"modified":"2009-05-26T13:33:50","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T13:33:50","slug":"fuck_tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"Fuck Tuesday."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nITEM!  Ever wonder why the Federal government still requires certain states to pre-clear under the Voting Rights Act? Because it&#8217;s 2009 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/24\/magazine\/24prom-t.html?hpw\">they&#8217;re still segregating proms<\/a>!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nITEM!  Ever wonder why we have such a complicated process for amending the Constitution?  Because if you allow for amendment by simple popular majority vote, a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California_state_elections,_November_2008\">52% share<\/a> of 58% of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www34.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=california\">voting age population<\/a> &#8211; in other words, less than a third of all people over age 18 &#8211; can make their own oogies the law of the land!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nITEM!  Ever wonder if you really are the Angel of Death?  Maybe, if every new job you take starts with a mass layoff of contractors!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat the hell is wrong with me that I knew all of this was going to happen and I still got up and out of bed at 6 AM?  Aside from a massive sinus infection and a really bad attitude problem, that is.  This is your notice that I am now actively Looking For Trouble, so if you are finding yourself short of an ass kicking, come on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITEM! Ever wonder why the Federal government still requires certain states to pre-clear under the Voting Rights Act? Because it&#8217;s 2009 and they&#8217;re still segregating proms! ITEM! Ever wonder why we have such a complicated process for amending the Constitution? Because if you allow for amendment by simple popular majority vote, a 52% share of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=497\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fuck Tuesday.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}