{"id":82931,"date":"2015-12-22T11:52:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T19:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=82931"},"modified":"2015-12-22T11:52:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T19:52:10","slug":"when-specificity-makes-a-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=82931","title":{"rendered":"When Specificity Makes A Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/more-good-stuff-from-frum\/#comment-1268939\">Comment<\/a>: AP Poll: Islamic State conflict voted top news story of 2015<\/p>\n<p>4: MASS SHOOTINGS: Throughout the year, mass shootings brought grief to communities across the U.S. and deepened frustration over the failure to curtail them. There were 14 victims in San Bernardino. Nine blacks were killed by a white gunman at a Charleston, South Carolina, church; a professor and eight students died at an Oregon community college. In Chattanooga, four Marines and a sailor were killed by a Kuwaiti-born engineer; three people, including a policeman, were shot dead at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Hilarious. It\u2019s like they want us to notice how they operate:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were 14 victims in San Bernardino.\u201d Islamic fanatics? What are they?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNine blacks were killed by a white gunman.\u201d Wow, specificity makes a stunning comeback in the next sentence!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment: AP Poll: Islamic State conflict voted top news story of 2015 4: MASS SHOOTINGS: Throughout the year, mass shootings brought grief to communities across the U.S. and deepened frustration over the failure to curtail them. 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