{"id":52045,"date":"2023-06-08T06:06:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T13:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=52045"},"modified":"2023-06-07T16:12:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T23:12:33","slug":"open-thread-june-8-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/06\/08\/open-thread-june-8-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread June 8, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my re-registration came &#8211; two copies, one for the car and one for my files, and the sticker Whew! Well, it should be easier for the next several years, at least. There was a flash flood warning on the radio, but not for me &#8211; for &#8220;northern&#8221; Colorado Springs and points north. Not that it wasn&#8217;t raining here &#8211; it was &#8211; but definitely not flooding (just a little too wet to put the sticker in place).<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/0608Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/0608Cartoon.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/0608Cartoon-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2023\/06\/tv-host-loses-it-over-kids-learning-about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crooks &amp; Liars &#8211; TV Host Loses It Over Kids Learning About Deodorant In School<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Real America&#8217;s Voice host Karyn Turk argued that children should not learn about deodorant in elementary school lessons preparing children for puberty&#8230;. &#8220;Not in school!&#8221; Turk gasped. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think they need to learn that in school. Elementary school. They learn that at home?&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2023\/06\/tv-host-loses-it-over-kids-learning-about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for story<\/a>. There is a video but I didn&#8217;t think I could bear to watch it. &#8220;Karyn&#8221;? Coincidence?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenib.com\/not-working\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Nib (Issy Manley) &#8211; Not Working<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Today&#8217;s CEOs exalting the four-day-week future echo industrialist Henry Ford. Ford famously reduced autoworkers schedules from six- to five-day weeks in the 1920s to maximize productivity AND spending. &#8220;Leisure is an indispensible ingredient in a growing consumer market.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thenib.com\/not-working\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for graphic article<\/a>. Henry Ford was no angel &#8211; far from it &#8211; but he was also no dummy. He got it that any business needs customers to survive, let alone prosper &#8211; and got it beyond that that a business&#8217;s employees are a great potential customer pool. Why can&#8217;t today&#8217;s owners and CEOs get it? And then there are the climate effects.<\/p>\n<p>Food For Thought<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52050\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2Dads.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"959\" height=\"977\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2Dads.jpg 959w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2Dads-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2Dads-147x150.jpg 147w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2Dads-768x782.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2Dads-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2Dads-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2Dads-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2Dads-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 959px) 100vw, 959px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Steal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Steal.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Steal-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Steal-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Steal-768x536.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my re-registration came &#8211; two copies, one for the car and one for my files, and the sticker Whew! Well, it should be easier for the next several years, at least. There was a flash flood warning on the radio, but not for me &#8211; for &#8220;northern&#8221; Colorado Springs and points north. Not that <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/06\/08\/open-thread-june-8-2023\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":50381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[3704,3723,3751,5456,5455,5457],"class_list":["post-52045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-climate-change","tag-gop-insanity","tag-leisure","tag-overwork","tag-sex-education","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\/52045","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=52045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}