{"id":50631,"date":"2023-01-26T06:58:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T14:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=50631"},"modified":"2023-01-25T17:35:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T01:35:42","slug":"open-thread-january-26-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/01\/26\/open-thread-january-26-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread January 26, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, a couple of days of sleeping late and then falling into knitting rabbit hole had put me a bit behind. So I decided to try to get abit ahead instead. did go through February and figured out what days I will need new cartoons for (and one I think I can update) and picked subject matter. i didn’t actually make anything yet, except the update, which I wanted to finsh while it was fresh in my mond, but that is still a head start. And I still managed a little knitting.\u00a0 Also, yesterday was another good day to play Name Drop<\/a>.\u00a0 I was fortunate enough to get it on the first clue, but I can’t imagine anyone in our generation NOT getting it before the last one.<\/p>\n

Cartoon – I see I already poseted today’s yesterday.\u00a0 So, here is yesterday’s, today:<\/p>\n

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Short Takes –<\/p>\n

Scientific American – Why Are White Men Stockpiling Guns?<\/a>
\nQuote – The short, broad-brush answer to the first part of that question is this: men, who on average possess almost twice the number of guns female owners do. But not all men. Some groups of men are much more avid gun consumers than others. The American citizen most likely to own a gun is a white male\u2014but not just any white guy. According to a growing number of scientific studies, the kind of man who stockpiles weapons or applies for a concealed-carry license meets a very specific profile.
\nClick through for description<\/a> and some eye-opening stats.<\/p>\n

Robert Reich – Five truths about the pending debt-ceiling fight that the mainstream media doesn’t want you to know<\/a>
\nQuote – Truth #1: The fight is being waged solely by the Republican Party. The Democrats did not pick this fight. When Trump occupied the White House, Republicans voted to increase the debt limit three times without incident. Over the last quarter century, it has been raised over a dozen times. You wouldn\u2019t know this from the way it\u2019s being covered. Last Thursday\u2019s [New York] Times, in an article titled \u201cMonths Before a Potential Crisis, Both Parties Kick Off a Fiscal Blame Game,\u201d leads with the wildly false equivalence that:
\nClick through for more detail<\/a> on #1 and for the other four. Bob is angry, and justly so.<\/p>\n

Food For Thought
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