{"id":57620,"date":"2025-09-18T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57620"},"modified":"2025-09-17T18:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T01:27:13","slug":"open-thread-september-18-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/18\/open-thread-september-18-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread September 18 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I still couldn’t hear anything from the computer (it isn’t me – I can hear the radio just fine.) I went through all the troubleshooting in settings, and it says everything is just fine. So I’ve ordered new speakers. but they won’t come in time for me to hear P\u00e9n\u00e9lope (by Gabriel Faur\u00e9) on Saturday. That doesn’t necessarily mean I shall never hear it – I looked it up on Wikipedia, and there are two existent recordings of it – one with Jessye Norman, of all people. No, I’m not ordering that right away. It would be quite a search, and I don’t have time. Maybe if we manage to survive this r\u00e9gime. Anyway, I will still have to get up earlier than usual Saturday to take my weekly Alendronate.<\/p>\n

Robert Reich<\/a> would like to remind us that no publication of his is sold by amazon. So if they claim to have, for instance, his new book, “Coming Up Short,” don’t buy it (in either sense.)<\/p>\n

This is archived from from The Nation<\/a>, where I didn’t even try to navigate to the full story through all the popups. But I suspect it speaks for all of us, at least in the sense that all of us will probably find something in it that says exactly what we were thinking.<\/p>\n

File this from Wonkette<\/a> under “Credit where credit is due, even if the amount of credit is small.”<\/p>\n

Belle – I could not hear this, but I followed the CC as best I could. It seems important.
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