{"id":3796,"date":"2011-01-06T09:55:54","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T17:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3796"},"modified":"2011-01-06T09:55:54","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T17:55:54","slug":"open-thread162011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/06\/open-thread162011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–1\/6\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m still feeling down, but I have a full slate of articles today, I\u2019m up to date on comments, and yesterday I finally got out to visit around twenty blogs on our blogroll.  That felt good!<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 3:22 (average 4:35).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From USA Today<\/a>: <\/font>Now that he’s made his departure plans public, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs can focus on his next big event: His favorite college football team’s bid for a national title.<\/p>\n

And should his Auburn Tigers beat the Oregon Ducks on Monday night, Gibbs says he is planning a special D.C. celebration.<\/p>\n

A toilet paper roll on a White House tree.<\/p>\n

I hope that damn DINO doesn\u2019t let the door hit is butt on the way out, and my Ducks are going to kick ass!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>Today, the New York radio station WOR announced that Glenn Beck\u2019s nationally syndicated radio show will be dropped on January 17, 2011.<\/p>\n

WOR is one of the nation\u2019s largest radio markets.  May all other stations follow suit.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Mother Jones<\/a>: <\/font>With the White House apparently favoring Gene Sperling, currently a counselor to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and an NEC director during the Clinton years, for the post [NEC Director], some progressives and Wall Street critics have expressed dismay or discouragement, as they point to Sperling’s supposed Wall Street ties. But how upset should they be? Sperling is hardly a Wall Street insider. In fact, he’s the rare economic power-player in Washington who didn’t fully cash in after leaving government service. He might be the wrong guy for this game of political\/policy football.<\/p>\n

Sperling might not be so bad after all.  David Corn is a credible source and he did his homework for this article.  I encourage you to click through.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

Let\u2019s find Dino\u2019s jobs circumcising conscious gorillas. \"Devil\"<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m still feeling down, but I have a full slate of articles today, I\u2019m up to date on comments, and yesterday I finally got out to visit around twenty blogs on our blogroll.  That felt good! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 3:22 (average 4:35).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? […]<\/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-3796","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\/3796","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=3796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}