{"id":54930,"date":"2024-08-03T06:15:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T13:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54930"},"modified":"2024-08-02T18:01:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T01:01:59","slug":"open-thread-august-3-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/08\/03\/open-thread-august-3-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread August 3 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I started the day by looking for baby booties, and in fact found 9 pair (10 if I can find the mate to the last one.) I can’t just ignore a baby born on my birthday. So I am now ready, be it boy or girl. Also, since it was Friday, here is Robert Reich’s episode #10 of DEBUNK<\/a>.\u00a0 In regard to Beau, since I live in Colorado, I should tell you that I followed that Democratic primary – started in advance, right after the state Democratic convention, and it appeared there were two front runners. She wiped out both of them, seemingly coming from nowhere. Not that it will make a difference in a district as red as that, but she’s remarkable.<\/p>\n

Wonkette sent me to this article in People magazine<\/a>. But The Root<\/a> also had thoughts. I can’t begin to sort out my mixed feelings about this – but one thought which leaps out is “Now all the gun nuts will be saying, ‘See! We told you it wasn’t the guns!'”<\/p>\n

I’m not sure when I subscribed to Press Watch<\/a>, but I’m glad I did. What POGO (Project on Government Oversight) does for the Federal Government (some would say “to” the Federal government), Press Watch does for – or to – the main stream media. I like that – and I think the Founders would too. They were under very few illusions about what can go wrong in a democracy.<\/p>\n