{"id":246,"date":"2004-10-24T15:36:06","date_gmt":"2004-10-24T20:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nachzen.net:8080\/?p=246"},"modified":"2004-10-24T15:36:06","modified_gmt":"2004-10-24T20:36:06","slug":"politics-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"Politics (as usual)"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s an interesting article<\/a> in today’s New York Times (free subscription required–and worth it) about <\/p>\n

John Kerry’s IQ: “People will often be misled into thinking someone is brighter if he says something complicated they can’t understand.” That’s okay; if a high IQ were the mark of a good president, Richard Nixon and Herbert Hoover would be at the top of the list.<\/p>\n

Michael Badnarik’s Libertarian run for president: He’s polling about the same as Nader.<\/p>\n

Why your vote doesn’t matter: But it actually does, just not in the way you might think it does.<\/p>\n

In the interest of equal time, here’s a neat list<\/a> of why your vote MIGHT matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s an interesting article in today’s New York Times (free subscription required–and worth it) about John Kerry’s IQ: “People will often be misled into thinking someone is brighter if he says something complicated they can’t understand.” That’s okay; if a high IQ were the mark of a good president, Richard Nixon and Herbert Hoover would…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggishness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}