{"id":54285,"date":"2024-04-11T06:02:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T13:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54285"},"modified":"2024-04-10T17:06:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T00:06:07","slug":"open-thread-april-11-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/11\/open-thread-april-11-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 11, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I finally took a few duck eggs out of the freezer ((I&#8217;m allergic to chicken eggs, n=but not to duck eggs or goose eggs) to use as toppers to corned beef hash (yes, I&#8217;m old &#8211; that used to be a popular meal, particularly for breakfast). I froze some when my source retired. Freezing eggs is an awkward business &#8211; you have to take them out of the shell, because if you don&#8217;t, they will break in the freezer, and you also have to at least pierce the yolk. And if you don&#8217;t want to use them all together, you need to put each one into a separate plastic bag. So hardboiled eggs are not an option. Traditionally, with hash, they were poached, but that&#8217;s not an option either, since the yolk is pierced. I just made a &#8220;valley&#8221; in the &#8220;mountain&#8221; of hash and put an egg (out of the plastic bag) into it, then microwaved it. It wasn&#8217;t as good as the meals I remember, but it wasn&#8217;t bad either. However, the best use of frozen (and then thawed) eggs is in baking. Maybe I&#8217;ll feel up to that eventually.<\/p>\n<p>I always enjoy reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2024\/04\/01\/stand-where-he-tells-you-to-stand-why-the-is-doubling-down-on-misogyny-in-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amanda Marcotte<\/a>. She sees things that otber people, including me, don&#8217;t. I don&#8217;t claim she&#8217;s always right, but what she has to say always bears consideration. I should point out that Salon, where she is a senior writer, is also now on substack (as is I presume her personal newsletter which they mention.)<\/p>\n<p>As Nameless often says, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/press-releases\/152453\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">good news is always welcome<\/a>. And I find this news particularly good coming from Texas. I suppose the whiny Texas GOP will be taking it to the Supremes, but at least there are injunctions for the interim. And the Supremes might turn it down. If they&#8217;re smart enough (I know some are.)<\/p>\n<p>Hanky Alert<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zSoPHEX0l1Y?si=qM3El3eVT483G4dv\" 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\/PJAAani9Rpw?si=fv3UDqtKxII2E7K-\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54287\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/TN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/TN.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/TN-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/TN-150x101.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I finally took a few duck eggs out of the freezer ((I&#8217;m allergic to chicken eggs, n=but not to duck eggs or goose eggs) to use as toppers to corned beef hash (yes, I&#8217;m old &#8211; that used to be a popular meal, particularly for breakfast). I froze some when my source retired. Freezing <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/11\/open-thread-april-11-2024\/' 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":[4355,5752,4531,5753,3735,4395],"class_list":["post-54285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-choice","tag-dogs","tag-everyone-matters","tag-misogyny","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\/54285","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=54285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54285\/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=54285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}