{"id":9273,"date":"2011-11-22T13:39:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T21:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=9273"},"modified":"2019-12-23T15:48:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T23:48:29","slug":"essentially","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2011\/11\/22\/essentially\/","title":{"rendered":"Essentially"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' 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08:36:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-06 08:36:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<h2>Part 1: The Event<\/h2>\n<p><object width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/WO4406KJQMc?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/WO4406KJQMc?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<h2>Part 2: The Spin<\/h2>\n<p>Gawker: <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5861688\/its-a-food-product-essentially-fox-news-starts-spinning-pepper-spray-cops\" title=\"Gawker: \u2018It\u2019s a Food Product, Essentially\u2019: Fox News Starts Spinning Pepper Spray Cops\">&#8216;It&#8217;s a Food Product, Essentially&#8217;: Fox News Starts Spinning Pepper Spray Cops<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8220;I don&#8217;t think we have the right to Monday-morning quarterback the police,&#8221; O&#8217;Reilly says, &#8220;particularly at a place like UC Davis, which is a fairly liberal campus.&#8221; God forbid! We&#8217;d never want to question Lt. John Pike&#8217;s decision to generously and indifferently dust peacefully sitting protesters with pepper spray from only a few feet away. Especially given that Davis is, you know, a liberal campus! And, gosh, even if we were going to Monday-morning quarterback the police, shouldn&#8217;t we remember, as Megyn Kelly tells O&#8217;Reilly, that pepper spray is &#8220;a food product, essentially&#8221;?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Part 3: The Science<\/h2>\n<p>Scientific American: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/guest-blog\/2011\/11\/21\/about-pepper-spray\/\" title=\"Scientific American: About Pepper Spray\">About Pepper Spray<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8230;commercial grade pepper spray leaves even the most painful of natural peppers (the Himalayan ghost pepper) far behind. It\u2019s listed at between 2 million and 5.3 million Scoville units. The lower number refers to the kind of pepper spray that you and I might be able to purchase for self-protective uses. And the higher number? It\u2019s the kind of spray that police use, the super-high dose given in the orange-colored spray used at UC-Davis.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Part 4: The Humor<\/h2>\n<h3>Product Reviews<\/h3>\n<p>Amazon: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0058EOAUE\" title=\"Amazon: Defense Technology 56895 MK-9 Stream, 1.3% Red Band\/1.3% Blue Band Pepper Spray\">Defense Technology 56895 MK-9 Stream, 1.3% Red Band\/1.3% Blue Band Pepper Spray<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/review\/R2HCOTQZGEJDOK\/ref=cm_cr_dp_perm?ie=UTF8&amp;ASIN=B0058EOAUE&amp;nodeID=3375251&amp;tag=&amp;linkCode=\" title=\"Amazon Product Review: Accept no substitutes when casually repressing students\">Accept no substitutes when casually repressing students<\/a>: Whenever I need to breezily inflict discipline on unruly citizens, I know I can trust Defense Technology 56895 MK-9 Stream, 1.3% Red Band\/1.3% Blue Band Pepper Spray to get the job done! The power of reason is no match for Defense Technology&#8217;s superior repression power. When I reach for my can of Defense Technology 56895 MK-9 Stream, 1.3% Red Band\/1.3% Blue Band Pepper Spray, I know that even the mighty First Amendment doesn&#8217;t stand a chance against its many scovil units of civil rights suppression.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/review\/R29PIQNR0UQREI\/ref=cm_cr_dp_perm?ie=UTF8&amp;ASIN=B0058EOAUE&amp;nodeID=3375251&amp;tag=&amp;linkCode=\" title=\"Amazon Product Review: More than just pepper spray!!!\">More than just pepper spray!!!<\/a>: First, this baby has everything you would expect from Defense Technology brand pepper spray. It burns like hell. Whether you&#8217;re spraying directly into eyes or mouths &#8211; this will cause excruciating pain.<\/p>\n<p>  Second, and I know it&#8217;s not explicitly listed as one the uses on the can, but it&#8217;s also an amazing human arm de-linker. So if you have this gigantic public space and a dozen people are sitting there with their arms linked &#8211; this will really help in your effort to de-link those arms.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>#MegynKellyEssentials<\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/search?q=%23MegynKellyEssentials\" title=\"Twitter search for #MegynKellyEssentials\">#MegynKellyEssentials<\/a> tag is worth watching on Twitter. It seems to have grown out of the comments to the <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5861688\/its-a-food-product-essentially-fox-news-starts-spinning-pepper-spray-cops\" title=\"Gawker: \u2018It\u2019s a Food Product, Essentially\u2019: Fox News Starts Spinning Pepper Spray Cops\">Gawker post<\/a> linked above. Some choice bits snagged from the Gawker comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Megyn Kelly on fire hoses: &#8220;It\u2019s a sports beverage, essentially!&#8221;<br \/>\n  Megyn Kelly on rubber bullets: &#8220;It\u2019s a pencil eraser, essentially!&#8221;<br \/>\n  Megyn Kelly on hand grenades: &#8220;It\u2019s a Fourth of July firework, essentially! God bless America.&#8221;<br \/>\n  Megyn Kelly on nightsticks: &#8220;It&#8217;s an olive branch, essentially!&#8221;<br \/>\n  Megyn Kelly on waterboarding: &#8220;It&#8217;s a Neti Pot, essentially!&#8221;<br \/>\n  Megyn Kelly on genital mutilation: &#8220;It&#8217;s a Brazilian wax, essentially!&#8221;<br \/>\n  Megyn Kelly on zip-tie handcuffs: &#8220;It&#8217;s a Livestrong bracelet, essentially.&#8221;<br \/>\n  Megyn Kelly on HIV: &#8220;It&#8217;s a common cold, essentially!&#8221;<br \/>\n  Megyn Kelly on the rack: &#8220;It&#8217;s a chiropractor, essentially!&#8221;<br \/>\n  Megyn Kelly on mustard gas: &#8220;It&#8217;s a hot dog condiment, essentially!&#8221;<br \/>\n  Megyn Kelly on nuclear weapons: &#8220;It&#8217;s a microwave dinner, essentially!&#8221;<br \/>\n  Megyn Kelly on sound weapons: &#8220;It&#8217;s a boom box, essentially!&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary on reactions to the UC Davis pepper-spray incident, in four parts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}