{"id":1839,"date":"2008-08-14T06:28:30","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T06:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-08-14T06:29:13","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T06:29:13","slug":"do_you_have_any","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1839","title":{"rendered":"Do You Have Anything To Say Before We Find You Guilty?*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The RSS excerpt on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/14\/opinion\/14thu2.html\" target=\"browser\">this incoherent New York Times editorial<\/a> caught my attention:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Then the F.D.A. should move as quickly as possible to determine the effects of menthol and what should be done to regulate or ban it.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know, this whole research and factfinding thing is kind of tiresome. We&#8217;re pretty sure it might be a problem &#8211; therefore let&#8217;s regulate or ban it. Because you can never have enough regulation, and you can never ban enough things to make people truly safe and healthy.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m becoming a Libertarian, I swear&#8230;the more I read this drivel, the more tempting a subscription to Reason looks.<\/p>\n<p>*&#8230;I&#8217;ll leave the provenance of the quote to the crowd. No fair using Google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll research it and then ban it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}