{"id":15192,"date":"2015-05-06T12:46:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T19:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15192"},"modified":"2015-05-06T12:46:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T19:46:17","slug":"open-thread562015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/06\/open-thread562015\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–5\/6\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

With everything else going on, we had another fire in the building, sort of.  It turned out to be a false alarm, occasioned by cooking smoke.  The idiot just kept cooking and did not open his door to vent the smoke, until it got so thick that someone saw it coming from a window.  Today is grocery delivery day.  Tomorrow is my MRI.  Hopefully I will have a Personal Update, but if I don\u2019t don\u2019t worry.  Remember I have to fight downtown Obama traffic to get home.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 3:43 (average 4:37).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Chloe Hugh was in the middle of her final shift at Boss Hawg’s Barbecue in Topeka, Kansas when Governor Sam Brownback and his family sat down in her section. Upset by Brownback’s repeated assault on Kansas school funding, she decided to use her last shift to make a point and when she handed Brownback the bill, she left a tip of her own:<\/p>\n

\"0506chloe\"<\/p>\n

Kudos to Chloe. That Brownback ate there demonstrates that pigs are cannibalistic.<\/font><\/p>\n

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>One day after the former Hewlett-Packard C.E.O. Carly Fiorina announced her candidacy for the 2016 Republican Presidential nomination, a new poll shows that she enjoys extremely high name recognition among the tens of thousands of former H.P. employees she fired.<\/p>\n

According to the poll, conducted by the University of Minnesota\u2019s Opinion Research Institute, Fiorina\u2019s name recognition stands at a hundred per cent among the legions of employees she terminated, with many of them calling the former C.E.O. \u201cunforgettable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additionally, a broad majority of the laid-off workers described their feelings about Fiorina as \u201cintense,\u201d and noted that very few days go by when they do not invoke her name in a vehement manner.<\/p>\n

Andy’s doing news again. My former job in research gave me a front row seat to watch how HP transformed when she took over. Before, they were totally focused of quality, ease of use, and user satisfaction. Afterward, they were totally focused on profit margin. She would certainly do for America what she did for HP.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>If you’ve ever wanted a side-by-side illustration of how racism seeps into everyday situations like job hunting, driving, and even going to the doctor, this video from Brave New Films breaks it down flawlessly.<\/p>\n