{"id":34119,"date":"2025-07-28T10:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T15:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34119"},"modified":"2025-07-28T10:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T15:29:11","slug":"i-guess-its-called-the-ann-coulter-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/28\/i-guess-its-called-the-ann-coulter-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"I Guess It&#8217;s Called The Ann Coulter Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Stacy McCain <a href=\"https:\/\/theothermccain.com\/2025\/07\/28\/crazy-people-are-dangerous-54\/\" target=\"_new\">covers the Traverse City stabbing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Say hello to Brandon Gille and, while you\u2019re at it, go ahead and say good-bye, because he will almost certainly spend the rest of his life behind bars. Gille went on a stabbing spree at a Walmart in Traverse City, Michigan, on Saturday. All 11 of his victims survived the attack and, for once, the \u201cAnn Coulter Rule\u201d turned out to be wrong in this case. Police were for some reason unwilling to identify the suspect in the immediate aftermath of Saturday\u2019s attack, even though they had the guy in custody. The Ann Coulter Rule specifies that, the longer the police delay identifying the perp, the greater the likelihood that it\u2019s not a white guy. So everybody was speculating that the Traverse City stabber must be a Muslim or perhaps an illegal immigrant, but it turned out to be a crazy white guy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I myself <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/27\/national-crime-story-to-be-localized\/\" target=\"_new\">speculated as such<\/a>.  And, being wrong in this instance, <em>some people will hold it&#8217;s wrong to speculate such in any instance<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know.  This might be the exception that proves the rule (that is, <em>tests<\/em> the rule) and proves it&#8217;s not always the case.  Which is not the same as proving it is <em>never<\/em> the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Stacy McCain covers the Traverse City stabbing: Say hello to Brandon Gille and, while you\u2019re at it, go ahead and say good-bye, because he will almost certainly spend the rest of his life behind bars. Gille went on a stabbing spree at a Walmart in Traverse City, Michigan, on Saturday. All 11 of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34120,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34119\/revisions\/34120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}