{"id":12228,"date":"2014-02-21T02:48:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T10:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12228"},"modified":"2014-02-21T02:48:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T10:48:34","slug":"open-thread2212014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/21\/open-thread2212014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–2\/21\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing for tomorrow.  This is the only article.  I missed sleep yesterday staying up to wait for my grocery delivery, which was several hours late.  I missed more sleep last night, because I was so sore from doing more housework than I am used to doing, I could not get comfortable.  I missed more sleep this morning, because Verizon woke me up three times with robo-solicitations.  They are not my company.  If they think that will increase their chance at becoming my company, they can take a long, flying %#^& off a short pier.  In the process, I watched the women\u2019s figure skating.  Sadly two of the US gals had an ass-ice interface.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 3:52 (average 5:32).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you so?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Minutes after the Russian men\u2019s hockey team fell to Finland 3-1, a devastated President Vladimir Putin told reporters, \u201cThis must be what an actual election feels like.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reliving the horrible experience of watching his team lose to the Finns, the Russian leader said, \u201cAs the game went on, I started thinking to myself, \u2018My God, I have no idea what the outcome of this is going to be.\u2019 I had never experienced that feeling before. It was ghastly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Poor GOP Pootie!! I trust he considers this a major setback for his Russian Republican Reich.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Those of you unfamiliar with the myriad roles of the Texas Lootenant Gubbinor might not be aware that first and formost [sic<\/em>] in his duties is to defend the state from the predations of the president of the United States. Todd Staples, one of the several equally silly and terrible choices for that office on the Republican ticket, has put out an ad clarifying that. It shows him pointing guns, hating the EPA and generally being a Texas fertilizer plant of talking points.<\/p>\n

Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n