{"id":503,"date":"2008-03-10T16:09:52","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T10:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/2008\/03\/10\/salvor-hardin-was-right\/"},"modified":"2008-03-10T16:09:52","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T10:39:52","slug":"salvor-hardin-was-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2008\/03\/10\/salvor-hardin-was-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Salvor Hardin was Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BJP and RSS workers have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/convergence\/ndtv\/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080043523&amp;ch=3\/9\/2008%2010:33:00%20PM\">attacked the CPI(M) office in New Delhi<\/a>, apparently\u00a0in retaliation for\u00a0the CPI(M)\u00a0killing BJP workers in Kerala.<\/p>\n<p>The idiots haven&#8217;t done anything in parliament for the past four years. They&#8217;ve squandered the opportunity to attack the Congress for toeing the CPI(M)&#8217;s line, and the left for toeing China&#8217;s line. The Congress has gifted them issue after issue on which it&#8217;s bungled &#8211; inflation, PSU disinvestment, Naxal civil war, terrorism, the nuclear deal &#8211; and it&#8217;s done absolutely nothing with this cornucopia of issues to attack them on. They&#8217;ve wasted the past four years.<\/p>\n<p>And now this. Violence truly is the last refuge of the incompetent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BJP and RSS workers have attacked the CPI(M) office in New Delhi, apparently\u00a0in retaliation for\u00a0the CPI(M)\u00a0killing BJP workers in Kerala. The idiots haven&#8217;t done anything in parliament for the past four years. They&#8217;ve squandered the opportunity to attack the Congress for toeing the CPI(M)&#8217;s line, and the left for toeing China&#8217;s line. The Congress has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31],"tags":[275,299,572,726,826,1110,1689,1930],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-policy-and-politics","tag-bharatiya-janata-party","tag-bjp","tag-cpim","tag-elections","tag-foundation","tag-isaac-asimov","tag-politics","tag-salvor-hardin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-87","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}