Based on the evidence you are an evil, bitter, nasty fellow<\/em>“).<\/p>\nIt is … a puzzlement. To say the least. And even when you’re rock-bottom sure that there’s really nothing to that opinion, you keep glancing in the mirror anyway to see if you can spot that eyeball. Because assuming the other person isn’t simply insane, obviously there’s some basis for that judgment call, no matter how outré. If you could just figure out what it was … or if it’s something you can change … or even want to … and, ultimately, what you do aside from that to deal with it.<\/p>\n
And, yes, I realize that there’s a certain measure of the US “Why do they hate us?” thing there, but that’s really not what I’m talking about.<\/p>\n
Just dealing with a local patch of surreality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    O wad some Power the giftie gie us     To see oursels as ithers see us!     It wad frae monie a blunder free us     An foolish notion … — Robert Burns,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5800,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/15\/wist_o_the_day.html","url_meta":{"origin":6238,"position":0},"title":"WIST-o-the-Day","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 15-Jul-04 6:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I tell this story to illustrate the truth of the statement I heard long ago in the Army: Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. There is a very great...","rel":"","context":"In "Geopolitical Brouhaha"","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitical Brouhaha","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/geopolitical-brouhaha"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5488,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/03\/bump_in_the_nig.html","url_meta":{"origin":6238,"position":1},"title":"Bump in the Night","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 3-Mar-04 10:05pm","format":false,"excerpt":"\"There are things that go bump in the night. And we are the ones who bump ... back.\" \u00a0-- Professor Bruttenholm (John Hurt) New Hellboy trailer. Sweet. Waiting for April...","rel":"","context":"In "Media & Culture"","block_context":{"text":"Media & Culture","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4373,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/15\/foolish_consist.html","url_meta":{"origin":6238,"position":2},"title":"Foolish consistencies","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 15-Sep-03 3:27pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. \u00a0-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Doyce rants on inconsistencies in the cap liners of 20 oz. bottles of soda. Since I...","rel":"","context":"In "Big Business"","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"fridgepack.jpg","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/fridgepack.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3537,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/10\/31\/interview_as_a.html","url_meta":{"origin":6238,"position":3},"title":"Interview as a Vampire","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 31-Oct-02 8:39am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Great Archives determine you to have gone by the identity: \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Ahab Brown Known in some parts of the world as: \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Devil of Blood The Great Archives Record: \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Thirsty, unstoppable...","rel":"","context":"In "Personality Tests"","block_context":{"text":"Personality Tests","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/personal\/personality-tests"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7810,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/07\/bt05_and_there.html","url_meta":{"origin":6238,"position":4},"title":"BT05 – And There Shall Come … an Ending!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Aug-05 7:00am","format":false,"excerpt":"Aaaand ... that's a wrap. So the Blogathon had (as of this writing) 219 participants, with 1,777 sponsor pledging over $55,000. Wow. My own share of that is seven fine...","rel":"","context":"In "Blogathon"","block_context":{"text":"Blogathon","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/blogathon"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6858,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/20\/wdw_day_3_sunda.html","url_meta":{"origin":6238,"position":5},"title":"WDW – Day 3 – Sunday, 12 Dec 04","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 20-Dec-04 11:54am","format":false,"excerpt":"Sunday was Magic Kingdom day. Off we went, after a brief feed of the ducks and breakfast. We parked in Minnie again, row 42 (we'd been in Minnie 43 the...","rel":"","context":"In "Disney\/Pixar"","block_context":{"text":"Disney\/Pixar","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/franchises\/disney"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}