{"id":11569,"date":"2013-11-03T01:24:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T08:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=11569"},"modified":"2013-11-03T01:24:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T08:24:55","slug":"open-thread1132013-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/03\/open-thread1132013-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–11\/3\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing for tomorrow.  It will be a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, but for me, it won\u2019t be as holy, because my Broncos, as all teams must once a season, are demonstrating their solidarity with the LGBT community.  It\u2019s their bi week.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s took me 4:13 (average 5:15).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font><\/p>\n

Sen. Rand Paul got caught lifting bits of his speeches directly from Wikipedia articles about the things he was referencing. Not the biggest thing in the world, but he is determined to not understand what the problem might be<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cI didn\u2019t claim that I created the movie \u2018Gattaca.\u2019 See, that\u2019s what\u2019s absurd about this. The plot line from \u2018Gattaca\u2019 belongs to one person, the guy, the screenwriter, and I gave him credit for that,\u201d Paul said. <\/p>\n

Paul said \u201ca lot of people\u201d work on his speeches so he can\u2019t pinpoint one person responsible for the writing, and he dismissed the attacks as coming from \u201chaters.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Paul is confused. Nobody is pretending Sen. Rand Paul claimed that he wrote the movie Gattaca<\/em>; people are pointing out that Sen. Rand Paul’s speech referencing the plot of Gattaca<\/em> just happens<\/a> to be a near word-for-word lift of the Wikipedia article about Gattaca<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It’s certainly possible that Idiot, Son of Idiot, Named after Idiot had never even heard of Gattica, before reading the word from his teleprompter. If that is the case, the perjury is from his speechwriter. On the other hand, if Idiot had any honest speechwriters, he would fire them.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>See Why We Have An Absolutely Ridiculous Standard Of Beauty In Just 37 Seconds<\/p>\n