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Open Thread Thursday

Your quarterly book report is due. What are you reading? Writers, please feel free to plug your own work.

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Open Thread Thursday: Show Us Your Fur Babies

JMG reader David writes to suggest a “sanity break” with an open thread for everybody to show off their fur babies, which we haven’t done for quite some time. Shelley endorses this idea, although she takes a dim view of my suggestion of adding another household member, primarily so I can name the new addition Hillary Kitten.

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Open Thread Thursday

Your quarterly book report is due. What are you reading? Writers, please feel free to plug your own work.

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Open Thread Thursday

Some outlets are saying that it’s now a three-way race for the GOP nomination after Marco Rubio nearly took second place from Donald Trump in the Iowa caucus, winning an equal number of delegates. Weigh in below and let us know who you believe poses the greatest threat to the eventual Democratic nominee.

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Open Thread Thursday

Your quarterly book report is due. What are you reading?

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Open Thread Thursday: Powerball Fever

Well, you didn’t win the Powerball. But if you did, what would you do? NBC News breaks down last night’s drawing: The jackpot will roll over to an estimated $675 million — the largest lottery prize in U.S. history, according to Texas Lottery spokesperson Kelly Cripe — when it’s drawn again Saturday night. The numbers drawn in Wednesday night’s $500 …

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Open Thread Thursday: 2016 Resolutions

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Lose weight, see the world, yadda yadda yadda. Surely the readers of this here website thingy have some actually interesting resolutions. Let’s hear them.

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Open Thread Thursday

Tell us about your holiday traditions. Do you spend this time of year with your biological family or with, as Armistead Maupin famously call it, your logical family? Do the two intermingle?

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Open Thread Thursday

Your book report is long overdue. What are you reading?

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Open Thread Thursday

Let’s see your fur babies.

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Open Thread Thursday

Quarterly book report. What are you reading?

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Open Thread Thursday

What was the first record you ever bought? Mine is above.

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Open Thread Thursday

Do you have any Valentine’s Day traditions?

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Open Thread Thursday

Quarterly book report time. What are you reading?

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Open Thread Thursday

Many JMG readers have already friended each other on Facebook. This week JMG reader SpiderPig suggests ramping up the community connectivity by sharing your Twitter handles.

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Open Thread Thursday

Where are you today? Who are you with?

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Open Thread Thursday

Where will you be in one week? Who will you be with?

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Open Thread Thursday

Have you ever been arrested during a protest? How were you treated? Did the record of that arrest affect you in the future?

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Open Thread Thursday

Tonight President Obama will announce an executive order on immigration reform that has the GOP threatening to shut down the federal government. We’ve talked about our roots in this post in the past, but today let’s hear how your family actually got to America. My own namesake arrived in Manhattan on a steamship out of Wales in 1871. How and …

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Open Thread Thursday

Share your favorite recipes and if you’ve got them, photos of the finished products.

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