{"id":55781,"date":"2024-12-22T06:08:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T14:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55781"},"modified":"2024-12-21T13:27:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T21:27:21","slug":"open-thread-december-22-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/22\/open-thread-december-22-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread December 22 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I awoke to find that we have a continuing resolution. I can’t be certain that the F News coverage is the pest on the details, but it’s pretty darned good (should I have said pretty effing good?) so here’s the link<\/a>. This doesn’t mean I won’t have articles or videos on the potential shutdown for the next couple of days – because there were a few which I thought had continuing value. Meanwhile, the radio opera was Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” in an abridged form and in English (in the spring they’ll broadcast the full one in German and will call it “Die Zauberfl\u00f6te<\/em>“). It’s a lot of fun – for adults also – especially in this Julie Taymor production with wretchedly excessive costumes and puppets. It’s designed to appeal to kids, but adults can enjoy is just as well – maybe even better. This opera is famos outside the opera world for the Queen of the Night’s aria (in German, “Die holle Rach<\/em>e,” and known by pro musicians as “The holy racket,” which is not unfitting.) But there are many wonderful tunes in it besides that one. Here’s a whole page of picture<\/a>s which may give you an idea of the spectacle.<\/p>\n

Andy Borowitz<\/a> has what he calls a “starter kit” to boycott. I’m way ahead of him on all four, and I don’t feel even a smidgen deprived.<\/p>\n

This from Wonkette<\/a> qualifies, I believe, as good news. I will note that the author, “Doktor Zoom,” recently leased an EV and he loves it and, in his own words, “won’t stop talking about it.” So he’s admittedly not unbiased. But pretty much everyone at Wonkette is biased in one way or another, but they all appear to retain the ability to distinguish fact from fiction, even from theory.<\/p>\n