{"id":48458,"date":"2022-07-07T07:26:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T14:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=48458"},"modified":"2022-07-06T16:01:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T23:01:41","slug":"open-thread-july-7-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/07\/open-thread-july-7-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread July 7, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, the Smithsonian’s newsletter was on fire. Just to name three, it included links to articles about “A tour of the future,<\/a>” a whooping crane “Colt”<\/a> (that’s what the babies are called) which hatched from a wild egg but is being raised by a bonded pair of adults whose last clutch was infertile, and Orson Welles’s typewriter<\/a>.\u00a0 After I finished posting, I spent some time withcartoons for the rest of July.There aren’ as manu as someother months – but they are all clusterd at the end of the month, so even though I was already halfway through, there are a bunch to do.<\/p>\n

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Short Takes –<\/p>\n

Psyche – Medicine has failed chronic pain patients. Here\u2019s what they need<\/a>
\nQuote – Decrying the sorry state of how people in extremis were treated, [ American anaesthesiologist John Bonica] wrote: Many of these [patients] are exposed to a high risk of iatrogenic [medical] complication from improper therapy, including narcotic intoxication and multiple, often useless, and at times mutilating operations; a significant number give up medical care and consult quacks who not only deplete the patient\u2019s financial resources but often do harm; some patients with severe intractable pain become so desperate as to commit suicide.
\nClick through for details.<\/a> Not all chronic pain comes from aging, but a lot does – and not all aging leads to chronic pain – but a lot does.<\/p>\n

Crooks & Liars – Another Trump Aide To Testify At Next Week’s Jan. 6th Hearing<\/a>
\nQuote – Matthews resigned the night of January 6, 2021, saying in a statement that she was honored to serve in then-President Donald Trump\u2019s administration but \u201cwas deeply disturbed by what I saw.\u201d She added: \u201cOur nation needs a peaceful transfer of power.\u201d
\nClick through for a little background.<\/a> Just before finding this, I had been checking the House dot gov hearing page to see whether anything new had been scheduled.<\/p>\n

Food For Thought
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