{"id":12751,"date":"2014-05-13T00:41:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T07:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12751"},"modified":"2014-05-13T00:41:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T07:41:19","slug":"open-thread5132014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/13\/open-thread5132014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–5\/13\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, and once again, tomorrow is almost here.  The heat wave arrived a day early, and although 80\u00b0 is not suffering weather, it\u2019s just warm enough to interfere with sleep.  The rest of the week will be worse with temperatures 90\u00b0s, but fortunately, maintenance will be installing my A\/C by 11:00 AM.  Then I can be one cool cat and catch up on sleep.  Day 22.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 4:07 (average 5:54).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Everywhere you look these days, you see Marxism on the rise. Well, O.K., maybe you don\u2019t \u2014 but conservatives do. If you so much as mention income inequality, you\u2019ll be denounced as the second coming of Joseph Stalin; Rick Santorum has declared that any use of the word \u201cclass\u201d is \u201cMarxism talk<\/a>.\u201d In the right\u2019s eyes, sinister motives lurk everywhere \u2014 for example, George Will says<\/a> the only reason progressives favor trains is their goal of \u201cdiminishing Americans\u2019 individualism in order to make them more amenable to collectivism.\u201d<\/p>\n

So it goes without saying that Obamacare, based on ideas originally developed at the Heritage Foundation<\/a>, is a Marxist scheme \u2014 why, requiring that people purchase insurance is practically the same as sending them to gulags.<\/p>\n

And just wait until the Environmental Protection Agency announces rules intended to slow the pace of climate change.<\/p>\n

Until now, the right\u2019s climate craziness has mainly been focused on attacking the science. And it has been quite a spectacle: At this point almost all card-carrying conservatives endorse the view that climate change is a gigantic hoax, that thousands of research papers showing a warming planet \u2014 97 percent<\/a> of the literature \u2014 are the product of a vast international conspiracy. But as the Obama administration moves toward actually doing something based on that science, crazy climate economics will come into its own.<\/p>\n

Paul Krugman has nailed InsaniTEA again. Click through for a great editorial.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>Unless You’re Ridiculously Wealthy, I Have A Feeling This Graph Might Make You Pretty Angry<\/strong><\/p>\n

Have your wages gone up in the past few years? Unless you’re really loaded, chances are they have not. So let’s take a look at how exactly they have been changing.<\/p>\n

Click through for data and an interactive graph that demonstrates the effects of the Republican War on the Poor and Middle classes.<\/font><\/p>\n

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>After claiming on Sunday that human activity does not cause climate change, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) suddenly found his ignorance credentials under attack by potential rivals for the 2016 Republican Presidential nomination. <\/p>\n

\u201cNow that Marco\u2019s thinking of running for President, he doesn\u2019t believe in climate change,\u201d said Texas Governor Rick Perry. \u201cTo those of us with long track records of ignorance on this issue, he seems a little late to the rodeo.\u201d <\/p>\n

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) echoed Gov. Perry\u2019s criticism, calling Rubio a \u201cdummy-come-lately\u201d on climate change. <\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, I have faith that Republican voters can tell the difference between someone who\u2019s truly uninformed and someone who\u2019s just faking it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Republicans always demand more than maximum ignorance. <\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

\"0513Cartoon\"<\/font><\/p>\n

Texas was still fighting the Civil War a month after everyone else had stopped.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, and once again, tomorrow is almost here.  The heat wave arrived a day early, and although 80\u00b0 is not suffering weather, it\u2019s just warm enough to interfere with sleep.  The rest of the week will be worse with temperatures 90\u00b0s, but fortunately, maintenance will be installing my A\/C by 11:00 AM.  […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}