{"id":11880,"date":"2009-02-13T03:04:18","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T11:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/02\/13\/11880.html"},"modified":"2009-02-13T03:04:18","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T11:04:18","slug":"why-tom-zarek-was-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/02\/13\/why-tom-zarek-was-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Tom Zarek Was Right"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I really was about to go to bed half an hour ago, but then I saw that Joe R had pointed to a <a href=\"http:\/\/lefarkins.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/why-tom-zarek-was-right.html\">Letter to the Editor<\/a> (contains <strong>MAJOR SPOILERS<\/strong> for everything up to and including the February 6 episode of <cite>BSG<\/cite>) from someone signing themselves \"Concerned Colonial Citizen.\" It makes some excellent points about the political situation among the Colonial fleet vis-a-vis the Galactica, the Cylons (which the letter-writer disconcertingly but plausibly persists in referring to as \"the Cylon\") and Admiral Adama.<\/p>\n<p>No spoilers in my entry here; I just want to quote one non-spoilery line I particularly liked:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[A]llowing the Cylon to achieve complete operational and strategic surprise is something that we can manage without Cylon assistance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Many of the comments are also well worth reading. I laughed at this one:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I am concerned about where Concerned Colonial Citizen gets his or her information.  It appears almost as if CCC has an omniscient source of information that is not available to average Colonials.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There are various followup letters and responses in other blogs, in both in-universe and out-of-universe style, but most of the disagreements I've seen use arguments I don't find especially compelling.  The one I've seen that I think holds water is <a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/archives\/2009\/02\/farley_human_cylon_alliance_is_impractical_and_irresponsible.php\">Matthew Yglesias's<\/a> (which is also full of <strong>spoilers<\/strong>, of course).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really was about to go to bed half an hour ago, but then I saw that Joe R had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}