{"id":48358,"date":"2022-06-28T07:14:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T14:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=48358"},"modified":"2022-06-27T20:19:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T03:19:19","slug":"open-thread-june-28-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/06\/28\/open-thread-june-28-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread June 28, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I realized Nameless has posted Sunday evening after I sent the email &#8211; I&#8217;ll pick it up in next week&#8217;s, but for regular readers, here&#8217;s the link &#8211; https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/2022\/06\/26\/there-is-no-joy-in-mudville\/ I didn&#8217;t see it immediately because I was loking for an email response to my visit-Virgil notification, and when I found it, it was a notificaion that he has been moved again. I needed to address that right away because they only have certain hours in which they read and answer emails, so I didn&#8217;t get to PP right away. And I realize this OT is pretty lightweught. Sometimes that happens. BTW, there&#8217;s another hearing today I&#8217;ll be watching it after the fact. And one final note &#8211; I&#8217;m not big on podcasts myself as a learning method (I find it difficult to sit still and listen), but this one, recommended by the editor of Mother Jones, appears to be seriously content-rich, down to earth, and something you can recommend to anyone whose shock at current events leads them to wnt to learn more. It&#8217;s called &#8220;How to Citizen.&#8221; https:\/\/www.howtocitizen.com<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48367\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/CharlesV.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"975\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/CharlesV.jpg 975w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/CharlesV-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/CharlesV-150x81.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/CharlesV-768x414.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 975px) 100vw, 975px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/women-declare-themselves-corporations-to-force-supreme-court-to-grant-them-rights-as-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Yorker (Borowitz) &#8211; Women Declare Themselves Corporations to Force Supreme Court to Grant Them Rights as People<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Attorneys across the nation indicated that they have been swamped by requests from clients seeking to incorporate as soon as possible. \u201cThe Supreme Court decided in 2010 that corporations are people, so all we want is to be treated like corporations, \u201d Carol Foyler, who now goes by the corporate name FoylerCo L.L.C., said.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/women-declare-themselves-corporations-to-force-supreme-court-to-grant-them-rights-as-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for full (short) article<\/a>. I&#8217;ve heard lots of ideas less intelligent than this one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/when-i-was-baby-jesus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich &#8211; When I was Baby Jesus<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; What was I to do? I did the only thing my five-year-old brain could come up with: I apologized to God. I did it quietly as I lay on the straw on the stage, under my breath so no one else would hear, and then apologized again during the prayers and Christmas carols. I whispered, \u201cGod, I didn\u2019t have a choice. I was cast as Baby Jesus. I don\u2019t celebrate Christmas. It\u2019s against my religion. Please forgive me. Thank you.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/when-i-was-baby-jesus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for his thoughts<\/a> on yet another horrible SCOTUS decision.<\/p>\n<p>Food For Thought<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48366\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/trust.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"731\" height=\"748\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/trust.jpg 731w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/trust-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/trust-147x150.jpg 147w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/trust-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/trust-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/trust-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/trust-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 731px) 100vw, 731px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Steal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Steal.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Steal-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Steal-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Steal-768x536.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I realized Nameless has posted Sunday evening after I sent the email &#8211; I&#8217;ll pick it up in next week&#8217;s, but for regular readers, here&#8217;s the link &#8211; https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/2022\/06\/26\/there-is-no-joy-in-mudville\/ I didn&#8217;t see it immediately because I was loking for an email response to my visit-Virgil notification, and when I found it, it was a <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/06\/28\/open-thread-june-28-2022\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":46419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[3708,3704,4810,3709,3792,3706,3972,4395],"class_list":["post-48358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-borowitz","tag-cartoon","tag-church-state-separation","tag-humor","tag-robert-reich","tag-satire","tag-scotus","tag-womens-health","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\/48358","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=48358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}