{"id":35644,"date":"2019-02-10T12:36:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T20:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35644"},"modified":"2019-02-10T12:36:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T20:36:14","slug":"open-thread-2-10-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/10\/open-thread-2-10-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 2\/10\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s 28\u00b0 F here in the CatBox, and I&#8217;m waiting for WWWendy to come thaw the stinky TomCat and help with a pants load of chores.&nbsp; This is today&#8217;s only article.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:06 (average 5:03).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-02-10-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; How did you do?&nbsp; (I could hide in the bushes and eat the <em>dawgs<\/em> that use it.&nbsp; Yum!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xagzv9v1PDM\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/NBCNews\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">NBC News Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Elizabeth Warren makes an announcement in Lawrence, Mass.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Xagzv9v1PDM?start=5289\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It was a great speech. You decide. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vu1-S8TyJLw\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SaturdayNightLive\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">SNL Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Meet The Press Cold Open<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Vu1-S8TyJLw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If you really want to know, order a dick pic from Amazon.com. Your Amazon package is on the way. Shitaker was circumcised just below the cranium. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2019\/02\/5-american-norms-europeans-think-crazy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raw Story<\/a>: <\/font><\/p>\n<p>Europeans tend to see a lot of American ideals and behaviors as bizarre. In particular, they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/SB124534162608828017\" target=\"_blank\">aren\u2019t wild<\/a> about our politics and our food (though they love our television and our movies). And when it comes to sex? Well, Europeans tend to view us as the land of the free, home of the batshit crazy. Below are some of the biggest sexual WTFs Europeans have about America\u2026.  <\/p>\n<p>\u2026<strong>3. Our fear of hugs<\/strong>.&nbsp; Research has shown that non-sexual physical contact has a profound impact on people\u2019s emotional and <a href=\"https:\/\/nihrecord.nih.gov\/newsletters\/2006\/02_24_2006\/story03.htm\" target=\"_blank\">physical well-being<\/a>. Despite this knowledge, and our hyper-sexualized tendencies, America is one of the most touch-phobic countries in the world. A global study on touch rated the United States among \u201cthe <a href=\"https:\/\/drsircus.com\/medicine\/touch-hugs-massages-health\" target=\"_blank\">lowest touch countries studied<\/a>.\u201d In contrast, the high-touch countries include Spain, France, Italy, and Greece. Some researchers think our fear of platonic touching actually leads to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.violence.de\/prescott\/pppj\/article.html\">violence<\/a>, particularly in young males. In one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/10730699\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a>, American adolescents were shown to touch each other far less and be more aggressive toward their peers compared with French adolescents.  <\/p>\n<p>While there are many reasons why Europe has a much lower violent crime rate than the U.S, could a lack of healthy physical connection add to this trend? In 2012, research conducted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/world\/10-things-europe-does-way-better-america\" target=\"_blank\">United Nations<\/a> Office on Drugs and Crime found that the U.S. had a \u201chomicide rate of 4.8 per 100,000 people compared to only 0.3 per 100,000 in Iceland, 0.7 per 100,000 in Sweden, 0.8 per 100,000 in Denmark and Spain, 0.9 per 100,000 in Italy, Austria and the Netherlands, 1.0 per 100,000 in France, and 1.2 per 100,000 in Portugal and the Republic of Ireland.\u201d&#8217;  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I shared the third out of five. Click through for the other four. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/0210Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 28\u00b0 F here in the CatBox, and I&#8217;m waiting for WWWendy to come thaw the stinky TomCat and help with a pants load of chores.&nbsp; This is today&#8217;s only article. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:06 (average 5:03).&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; How did you do?&nbsp; (I could hide in the bushes <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/10\/open-thread-2-10-2019\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35644","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\/35644","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=35644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}