{"id":38949,"date":"2020-02-11T07:56:38","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T15:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=38949"},"modified":"2020-02-11T07:56:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T15:56:38","slug":"open-thread-2-11-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/02\/11\/open-thread-2-11-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;2\/11\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m afraid I\u2019m having a rough day.&nbsp; I could not keep breakfast down, and my heartburn is screaming.&nbsp; This is my only article today.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 5:45 (average 5:20).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-02-11-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; How did you do?<\/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\/2018\/02\/0211Cartoon.jpg\"><\/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=06ojjeMrKVo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>: <font color=\"#000000\">Asked who&#8217;d be her &#8216;Mike Pence&#8217;, Warren says &#8216;I already have a dog&#8217;<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/06ojjeMrKVo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>FOMCROTFPIMPLMAO<\/strong>!<strong>&nbsp; RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/person-who-is-always-troubled-or-concerned-should-get-different-job-workplace-experts-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <font color=\"#000000\">An employee who regularly self-identifies as \u201ctroubled\u201d or \u201cconcerned\u201d would benefit from seeking a different job, leading workplace experts said on Monday.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Professor Davis Logsdon, the director of the University of Minnesota\u2019s Workplace Health Institute, cited the case of a Maine woman who appeared to undergo a traumatic experience every time she was faced with a difficult decision at work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to her own account, each decision followed an excruciating period of existential torment,\u201d Logsdon said. \u201cAny employee who finds decision-making this harrowing should clearly consider working somewhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Logsdon said that the woman\u2019s frequent episodes of being troubled and\/or concerned usually resulted in an unsatisfactory outcome.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of her nightmarish deliberation process, she lost the capacity for individual judgment,\u201d he said. \u201cShe just went along with what everyone else in the office decided to do, regardless of the harm that such a decision might cause.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy, I fully agree. Slithering Susan Collins [R-ME] needs a new job. Work to clean up all the bullshit she has spewed would give her job security for years!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3QCZ_bv9aLc&amp;list=PLs5nLtKbGBVOZBCzgXxcN9fyCz6sQ1fab&amp;index=46&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <font color=\"#000000\">The Beach Boys &#8211; Don&#8217;t Worry Baby<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/3QCZ_bv9aLc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Ah\u2026 the memories!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Vote Blue!!<\/font><\/h1>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m afraid I\u2019m having a rough day.&nbsp; I could not keep breakfast down, and my heartburn is screaming.&nbsp; This is my only article today. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 5:45 (average 5:20).&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; How did you do? Cartoon: Short Takes: From YouTube: Asked who&#8217;d be her &#8216;Mike Pence&#8217;, Warren says <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/02\/11\/open-thread-2-11-2020\/' 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":[3708,3704,3753,3709,3876,3718,3705,3706,3714],"class_list":["post-38949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-borowitz","tag-cartoon","tag-elizabeth-warren","tag-humor","tag-mike-pence","tag-music","tag-resist","tag-satire","tag-video","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\/38949","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=38949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}