{"id":3677,"date":"2010-12-21T14:03:33","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T22:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3677"},"modified":"2010-12-21T14:03:33","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T22:03:33","slug":"open-thread12212010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/21\/open-thread12212010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–12\/21\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

I kept up with comments today, but was still too busy to get visiting in.  I shall this year!  Plus, my body has not yet adjusted to my sleeping schedule change.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 3:10 (average 4:08).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Lefty Bloggers Plus Report \u2013 Playoff Semifinals<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

\"21LBPSemis\"<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From The Guardian<\/a>: <\/font>Julian Assange is understood to have sold his memoirs, to publishers Canongate in the UK and Knopf in the US. The news leaked appropriately enough via a tweet from Spanish publisher Random House Mondadori, with head of the literary division Claudio Lopez telling the world that "Manuscrito listo en marzo" \u2014 the manuscript will be ready in March.<\/p>\n

That should be most interesting.  Do you think he\u2019s mad that it leaked?<\/font><\/p>\n

From ABC<\/a>: <\/font>The momentum to pass START continued to gain speed today when Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-GA, and Sen. Bob Bennett, R-UT, announced their support for the pact, giving Democrats \u2013 on paper at least \u2013 enough votes for ratification.<\/p>\n

The vote will come tomorrow. Kerry says that have the votes.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Computer World<\/a>: <\/font>Apple yesterday pulled an iPhone app from the App Store that let users read secret U.S. diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks and follow the controversial organization’s Twitter feed.<\/p>\n

Boycott CrApple!<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"Mike<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n

Tuesday is No Teabuggery Day.  Have a \"Coffee!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I kept up with comments today, but was still too busy to get visiting in.  I shall this year!  Plus, my body has not yet adjusted to my sleeping schedule change. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 3:10 (average 4:08).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Lefty Bloggers Plus Report \u2013 […]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-35-id","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677","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=3677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}