{"id":91,"date":"2006-12-13T11:12:01","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T15:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/13\/thank-you-captain-obvious\/"},"modified":"2007-02-05T21:43:23","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T01:43:23","slug":"thank-you-captain-obvious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"Thank you, Captain Obvious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Robert Tracinski had a really spot-on piece in the WSJ&#8217;s Opinion Journal called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/federation\/feature\/?id=110009374&#038;ojrss=wsj\" target=\"_blank\">Captain Obvious to the Rescue<\/a> yesterday and since no one has picked up on it yet, I thought I&#8217;d just add a link and a teaser; <\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In my student days back at the University of Chicago, there was a campus comedy troupe modeled on Second City, their more well-known uptown uncle. The U of C group was pretty funny, if in a somewhat bookish way. (Who else does a comedy routine based on &#8220;Oedipus Rex&#8221;?) One of their funniest bits was a recurring skit about a superhero named Captain Obvious. In each scene, a character would face a mundane problem, only to be &#8220;saved&#8221; by the banal and utterly unhelpful advice offered by Captain Obvious. &#8220;I&#8217;ve locked my keys in my car. What am I going to do?&#8221; &#8220;Well then,&#8221; replies Captain Obvious, &#8220;all you have to do is open the door to your car, and then you can get your keys.&#8221; Each scene ended the same way, with Captain Obvious proclaiming, &#8220;No, don&#8217;t thank me. It&#8217;s all in a day&#8217;s work for Captain Obvious.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been reminded of this skit many times since, because I frequently hear the same kind of advice being given in Washington. Take, for example, the recommendations offered, to much fanfare, by the Iraq Study Group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Tracinski had a really spot-on piece in the WSJ&#8217;s Opinion Journal called Captain Obvious to &hellip; <a title=\"Thank you, Captain Obvious\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=91\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thank you, Captain Obvious<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-politics","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}