{"id":4455,"date":"2011-04-01T02:58:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T09:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4455"},"modified":"2011-04-01T02:58:41","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T09:58:41","slug":"open-thread412011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/01\/open-thread412011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;4\/1\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I handled odds and ends online and at home.&#160; Today, I will be collecting the data needed for tomorrow\u2019s Monthly Report, and I need to rest because I\u2019ll be out late hosting a CoDA meeting.&#160; I am up to date with comments.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 3:46 (average 4:51).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-04-01-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2011\/03\/31\/national\/main20049481.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">CBS<\/a>: <\/font>Ohio&#8217;s governor on Thursday signed into law a limit on the collective bargaining rights of 350,000 public workers, defying Democrats and other opponents of the measure who have promised to push for repeal.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If workers can gather enough signatures, they can put this on the ballot.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.care2.com\/news\/member\/451276626\/2762977\" target=\"_blank\">Care2<\/a>: <\/font>The Supreme Court justices, sharply divided along gender lines, appeared poised to reject a nationwide class-action lawsuit that accuses Wal-Mart of sex discrimination after an argument over class actions became a debate over what constitutes sex discrimination in today&#8217;s workplace. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I think Steven Breyer will join the ladies, but it looks like Kennedy with goose step with the Reich.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a title=\"Dan Wasserman\" href=\"http:\/\/comics.com\/dan_wasserman\/2011-03-30\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Dan Wasserman\" src=\"http:\/\/c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/360997.full.gif\" \/><\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">TGIF!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I handled odds and ends online and at home.&#160; Today, I will be collecting the data needed for tomorrow\u2019s Monthly Report, and I need to rest because I\u2019ll be out late hosting a CoDA meeting.&#160; I am up to date with comments. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 3:46 (average 4:51).&#160; To do <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/01\/open-thread412011\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-4455","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\/4455","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=4455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}