{"id":12517,"date":"2009-07-27T12:52:40","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T12:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/07\/27\/an-epidemic-of-drunk-driving\/"},"modified":"2009-07-27T12:52:40","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T12:52:40","slug":"an-epidemic-of-drunk-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/07\/27\/an-epidemic-of-drunk-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"An &#8216;Epidemic&#8217; of Drunk Driving?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"firstinpost\"><font face=\"Georgia\">If you are a conservative, don&#39;t talk like a liberal. A while back I&#0160;heard an&#0160;otherwise intelligent C-Span presenter speak more than once of &quot;an epidemic of drunk driving.&quot; But an epidemic, <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=spell&amp;resnum=0&amp;ct=result&amp;cd=1&amp;q=define:+epidemic&amp;spell=1\"><font face=\"Georgia\">by definition<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">, is an outbreak of a contagious disease in excess of what might normally be expected. To describe drunk driving as an epidemic, therefore, is to imply that it is a disease, which is precisely what it is not. Drunk driving is a freely chosen&#0160; act. Use of &#39;epidemic&#39; in connection with drunk driving aids and abets the <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;q=define%3A+cockeyed\"><font color=\"#810081\" face=\"Georgia\">cockeyed<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> liberal view of the world according to which well-nigh every type of negative behavior is a disease.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Words mean things. Language matters. Don&#39;t talk like a liberal unless you are one.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a conservative, don&#39;t talk like a liberal. A while back I&#0160;heard an&#0160;otherwise intelligent C-Span presenter speak more than once of &quot;an epidemic of drunk driving.&quot; But an epidemic, by definition, is an outbreak of a contagious disease in excess of what might normally be expected. To describe drunk driving as an epidemic, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/07\/27\/an-epidemic-of-drunk-driving\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An &#8216;Epidemic&#8217; of Drunk Driving?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}