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<\/p>\nYesterday, the radio opera was “Luisa Miller” by Verdi.\u00a0 If you know a little about opera but have never heard of it, there’s a reason for that – the plot is even more depressing than most opera plots.\u00a0 The only bright spot is that the protagonist (I really can’t call him a “hero”) manages to muster up enough strength just before he dies to kill the villain.\u00a0 It does have many beautiful melodies, and I would definitely rather hear it than see it, so there’s that.<\/p>\n
Cartoon – 21 Piltdown uploaded<\/p>\n
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Crooks and Liars – Meet Acting President Kamala Harris<\/a> Democratic Underground (gab13by13) Most ransacked office on 1\/6.<\/a> Daily Kos (Joan McCarter) – Biden boots Bloom from Postal Service board, DeJoy\u2019s days as Postmaster are numbered<\/a> Food for Thought – Yesterday, the radio opera was “Luisa Miller” by Verdi.\u00a0 If you know a little about opera but have never heard of it, there’s a reason for that – the plot is even more depressing than most opera plots.\u00a0 The only bright spot is that the protagonist (I really can’t call him a “hero”) manages to […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[3704,4115],"class_list":["post-45969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-justice","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\/45969","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nQuote – Going under anesthesia for a routine checkup and colonoscopy (cancer screenings save lives, folks) Joe Biden handed over the reins of the US Presidency to Vice President Kamala Harris. She’s Acting President Kamala Harris for a few hours today, and she’s the first woman in history to have that honor. An “honor,” by the way, that Mango Mussolini was too chicken sh*t to bestow on Mike Pence.
\nClick through for some witty tweets.<\/a> ICYMI, this happened Friday.\u00a0 And Joe came through the physical just fine.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – The most ransacked office the day of the failed coup was the Parlementarian’s [sic] office where the Electoral college ballots would have been stored.
\nClick through for possible reasoning<\/a>. It’s short. Only a footnote. But, as Agatha Christie used to have Poirot say, “It gives one furiously to think.”<\/p>\n
\nQuote – \u201cThe USPS serves hundreds of millions of Americans across the nation every day,\u201d the White House wrote in the statement announcing the nominations. \u201cPresident Biden is committed to supporting USPS workers so that they can continue delivering for their fellow Americans, particularly those in rural communities, veterans, and older Americans who rely so heavily on the Postal Service. President Biden is also committed to strengthening and modernizing this critical public institution and its services to ensure it continues serving the American people for decades to come.\u201d
\nClick through for a story we have all been waiting for what seems like forever<\/a>. Bloom won’t actually be out until December 8 – but it’s now carved in stone that he will be out.<\/p>\n
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