{"id":1075,"date":"2010-03-14T20:09:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T01:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2010-03-14T20:13:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T01:13:47","slug":"inspiring-badges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/inspiring-badges\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiring Badges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you probably know by now the Texas school board has revised their educational guidelines so severely they&#8217;re going to have to put &#8220;educational&#8221; in quotation marks.\u00c2\u00a0 Phil Plait <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/03\/14\/texas-conservatives-screw-history\/\">made fun of them<\/a>, then, on Facebook, reacted to people whining about it.<\/p>\n<p>In the ensuing conversation I made a comment about the Moron Badge of Honor, which inspired Glenn Sogge, who I hadn&#8217;t met before, to create and post this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/moron.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1076  aligncenter\" title=\"moron\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/moron.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/moron.jpg 310w, http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/moron-251x300.jpg 251w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I suggested he might like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/2005\/whatyear.html\">this<\/a> article, and he responded with this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/OFI.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1077  aligncenter\" title=\"OFI\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/OFI.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/OFI.jpg 350w, http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/OFI-276x300.jpg 276w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All this goofing around with seals reminds me of this oldie but goodie, which remains a perfect response to the idiots who are <em>still <\/em>whining about the last Bush election:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/dem_party_seal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1078  aligncenter\" title=\"dem_party_seal\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/dem_party_seal-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/dem_party_seal-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/dem_party_seal-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/dem_party_seal.jpg 549w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Glenn made his badges at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.says-it.com\/seal\/\">this<\/a> site, which has been around for quite a while (in internet terms, at least).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It lets you make badges, church signs, and a plethora of other things that feature your words on their images.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, you really do need some steenking badges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you probably know by now the Texas school board has revised their educational guidelines so severely they&#8217;re going to have to put &#8220;educational&#8221; in quotation marks.\u00c2\u00a0 Phil Plait made fun of them, then, on Facebook, reacted to people whining about it. In the ensuing conversation I made a comment about the Moron Badge of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}