{"id":55777,"date":"2024-12-20T06:01:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T14:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55777"},"modified":"2024-12-19T17:06:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T01:06:27","slug":"open-thread-december-20-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/20\/open-thread-december-20-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread December 20 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I was having computer issues again. I&#8217;m not in the greatest of moods. If this is up in the morning today, you&#8217;ll know I managed to get it up &#8211; and then essentially quit for the day.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, no single article (probably no single book) can actually go into Every single aspect of patriarchy which makes it both so awful and so unassailable. I don&#8217;t even think <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/are-we-being-punished-for-a-feminist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wonkette<\/a> is trying to do that here. But if you are still wondering why Kamala did not win, or why I am saying at every opportunity to say it that Democrats simply cannot afford to sacrifice the best and brightest of our women on the altar of equality, it may give you a glimpse of the answers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/19thnews.org\/2024\/12\/air-pollution-ivf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The 19th<\/a> has some new information about air pollution. I remember a time when one could take the air one breathes for granted. When I say I remember, I mean I just barely remember &#8211; and I am 79. I suspect not all of our readers will remember this at all. Humans can be very, very slow learners &#8211; a fact which generally only becomes noticed when everyone&#8217;s health is threatened &#8211; and even then, many don&#8217;t notice &#8211; or care.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yzIY4FlErMw?si=0cWAC6XOfye-D5dT\" 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\/jBvK87cr2Tk?si=bOPeyuSlUpMo27AR\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55794\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/grinch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/grinch.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/grinch-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/grinch-150x103.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I was having computer issues again. I&#8217;m not in the greatest of moods. If this is up in the morning today, you&#8217;ll know I managed to get it up &#8211; and then essentially quit for the day. Of course, no single article (probably no single book) can actually go into Every single aspect of <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/20\/open-thread-december-20-2024\/' 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":[6107,4355,5375,4111,6109,6105,3722,5713,3735,6108,6106,4920],"class_list":["post-55777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-air-pollution","tag-animals","tag-cabinet","tag-cats","tag-feminism","tag-holidat","tag-impeachment","tag-ivf","tag-misogyny","tag-patriarchy","tag-south-korea","tag-technology","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\/55777","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=55777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55777\/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=55777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}