{"id":54253,"date":"2024-04-07T06:04:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T13:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54253"},"modified":"2024-04-06T19:04:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T02:04:53","slug":"open-thread-april-7-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/07\/open-thread-april-7-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 7, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, The radio opera was Donizetti&#8217;s &#8220;L&#8217;Elisir d&#8217;Amore&#8221; (&#8220;The love Potion&#8221;) and I&#8217;m afraid I slept through half of it. My alarm went off and I decided not to get up. I&#8217;m not a big Pavarotti fan, and while there were other major stars of the time, including one with whom I shared a violin teacher (not of course at the same time &#8211; decades apart actually) I just wasn&#8217;t inspired to get up then. I did get up in time fpre the second act (there are only two). One of the four main characters is a &#8220;snake oil salesman&#8221; and i see enough of that in real life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/april-5-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heather Cox Richardson<\/a> is an historian, not an economist &#8211; but you don&#8217;t really need to be an economist to know that &#8220;supply-side&#8221; economics does not work. You just need to be over 40 and not blind. The Biden\/Sanders video she speaks of is the second with Biden&#8217;s name on it in the list of Xitter videos below her list of links. Iy&#8217;s supposed to have sound, and it definitely has CC.<\/p>\n<p>April, in the South, is Confederate Heritage Month. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/news\/2024\/04\/05\/celebrating-true-southern-heritage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Southrern Poverty Law Center<\/a> find that less than acceptable. So they are pushing for a celebreation of good things in southern history to replace it &#8211; or at least alleviate the bad taste of it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oM1eZbvc9sY?si=uSPvwsEyWzZsGZvG\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pUHD6Y7MqCk?si=h_7kDC9_uH3pL3td\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54264\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/asylum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/asylum.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/asylum-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/asylum-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/asylum-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, The radio opera was Donizetti&#8217;s &#8220;L&#8217;Elisir d&#8217;Amore&#8221; (&#8220;The love Potion&#8221;) and I&#8217;m afraid I slept through half of it. My alarm went off and I decided not to get up. I&#8217;m not a big Pavarotti fan, and while there were other major stars of the time, including one with whom I shared a violin <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/07\/open-thread-april-7-2024\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":53906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,4601,4531,4974,3775,3865,3718,5746],"class_list":["post-54253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-asylum","tag-dogs","tag-economic-systems","tag-foreign-policy","tag-middle-east","tag-music","tag-the-american-south","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\/54253","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=54253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}