Welcome to Tuesday's Open Thread. I'd like to begin by first thanking QMS for all the wonderful and thoughtful essays he's written during his tenure as an Open Thread contributor. I will miss his Tuesday morning musings and his humor but I can also appreciate the demands that life and work place on us at times. Stepping in for him, especially committing to weekly postings, gave me pause. What if I don't have anything interesting to say that week? Then you'll show up and do the best you can, a friend of mine reassured me. And that, as they say, was that. So, let's see what happens, eh?

MrWebster reminded me that the Podesta emails mentioned Senator Warren several times.
This gives us a window into Warren's "private" positions.

Warren provided Clinton list of staff picks

From “Spook Air” to the “Lolita Express”: The Genesis and Evolution of the Jeffrey Epstein-Bill Clinton Relationship

Bernie Tulsi Andrew Marianne

Here are the progressive voices.

This is such an excellent speech.

[video:https://youtu.be/bUMUYaeUOfs]

Interested in hearing your thoughts.

Over the course of our lives, we all must have received gifts that overwhelmed us with their thoughtfulness, suitability, and timeliness.  One I received a couple years ago from Mr. wd qualified in the first two ways, but as to the third, please consider the implications of its irony as you read about what may end up being my favorite present ever.