Althouse: At the Sunday Night Café...

August 10, 2025

At the Sunday Night Café...

... you can talk about whatever you want.

21 comments:

Kakistocracy said...: Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China chip sale revenues to US government ~ WSJ

Suddenly the chip exports are no longer a national security risk now that protection money has been paid.

Before the election, MAGA Trump supporters said their top priorities were lowering prices and releasing the Epstein files. Now the same supporters say their top priorities are building a gold ballroom for the White House and putting tariffs on Ford, GM and shaking down Nvidia and AMD.; 8/10/25, 8:51 PM
FormerLawClerk said...: It's pretty clear that James Carville is losing his mind. He's now 80 years old (most American men are dead by 82.) He has severe anger management issues and his wife, Mary Matalin is too old to take care of him. She's 71 and decrepit.

So he's being trotted out on all the Democrat podcasts to spout his conspiracy theories about taking over the Supreme Court and creating some new Democrat states (wtf?) and splitting up the ones they already control like Illinois and New York so they get more Senators.

He's also pretty fucking angry about the number of raisins that they've been putting in Raisin Bran lately and getting all up in Big Cereal's face and shit.

Nobody will intervene on this old fart to get him a boudin sandwich and get his wrinkled ass to bed.

He brought us Hillary Clinton, so it's kind of fun to watch this dumb fucker descend into the mind depths of hell before he spits up his last phlem on the way to irrelevancy.; 8/10/25, 8:52 PM
historyDoc said...: Meant to write yesterday, Kudos to the Althousian commentariat for one of the best discussions I've seen in awhile about Althouse' post "How to teach Con Law in 2025".

I never got near a law school, but hearing the experience of those who did was fascinating and enlightening. As an added bonus, none of the usual trolls interrupted the conversation.

To me, represented the blog commentariat at its best.; 8/10/25, 8:55 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Going through More of Deep Space Nine (aka DS9). Season 1 was pretty worthless. Even the fanboys admit it was a "slow start" as the writers/producers were finding their way.

Probably the most interesting thing about Season 1 is the introduction of Kai Winn, played by the great Louise Fletcher. She's the stand-in for the "Religious right". She stands for religion (Bajorian) against "Science". Of course, she's smary and fake, unlike the science teacher who's nice, likable, and sincere.

Also interesting are Quark and the Feringi, who give the writers a chance to give us thinly veiled Jewish Humor. You expect these space aliens to start going "Ov vey" or "Take my wife, please".; 8/10/25, 9:12 PM
Original Mike said...: "Before the election, MAGA Trump supporters said their top priorities were lowering prices and releasing the Epstein files. "

LOL; 8/10/25, 9:13 PM
heyboom said...: Going to the Iowa State Fair tomorrow for the first time ever!; 8/10/25, 9:15 PM
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Dr Weevil said...: Anyone who thinks Raisin Bran could use more raisins can do what my father did for the last ~20 years of his life: keep a box of raisins on the kitchen table and add just the right quantity to every bowl. How addicted to whining do you have to be to sit around complaining instead of doing something so obvious, so easy, and so inexpensive?; 8/10/25, 9:20 PM
YoungHegelian said...: @RCOCEAN II,

I, too, am a big fan of DS9, and, yes, season 1 is mostly worthless. However, "Duet" and "Captive Pursuit" both stand up well over time.

DS9 really takes off when they introduce the Dominion, and seasons 4-7 have some of the best episodes in the whole ST franchise (my personal favorite is season 6, episode 19 "In the Pale Moonlight"). At that point, DS9 adopted the writing and plotting style of Babylon 5, with multi-season long story arcs and letting alien characters carry story lead, which apparently the actors find difficult to do because acting in all that make-up robs the actor of a lot of facial expression.; 8/10/25, 9:25 PM
Narr said...: "How addicted to whining do you have to be . . . ?"

'It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.'

--Yeah. Goddamn darkness.; 8/10/25, 9:26 PM
Yancey Ward said...: All of the Star Trek spinoff series get off to very slow starts- the first two seasons of TNG are forgettable and so are the first two seasons of DS9 and Voyager for the most part. I have debated whether or not rewatch DS9- I haven't seen an episode since the series concluded over quarter century ago.; 8/10/25, 9:34 PM
buwaya said...: Raising chip prices from China adds incentives to chipmakers to inshore production, or more likely move out of China to some other third world country. Need I remind you that the first offshoring wave of the semiconductor industry was to places like the Philippines and Malaysia and Taiwan. China was the second wave (1990s/2000s).; 8/10/25, 9:38 PM
buwaya said...: There is an entire world itching to be the worlds workshop. China is not inevitable. It had important economic advantages for decades, but we are now seeing the costs of concentrating so much there. They got too big for their britches in spite of the epgemeral nature of their; 8/10/25, 9:44 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: YoungHegelian - I look forward to seasons 4-7. I've heard that from others, that DS9 got better as it went along, unlike other series.

TOS couldn't afford to "Start slow". It says something about the changes in TV biz from the 60s to the 80/90s, that the whoever was showing TNG/DS9 were willing to ride out a slow start and keep with the series.

Duet was good, and IRC was written by the same guy who wrote Neccessary Evil. Kira is good in both of them.; 8/10/25, 9:45 PM
buwaya said...: In spite of the ephemeral nature of their manufacturing base. Light industry can move fast.; 8/10/25, 9:46 PM
Original Mike said...: H&I runs the 5 Star Treks every night, starting at 7pm CT (TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise). We often have them on as background.; 8/10/25, 9:46 PM
Peachy said...: Former Law Clerk -
I thoroughly enjoyed that.; 8/10/25, 10:02 PM
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Mr. T. said...: Babylon 5 is better than DS9.

Look at today's Leftism/Biden regime and Clarke's rise to power.
See if you can spot any difference...

8/10/25, 10:24 PM; 8/10/25, 10:25 PM
Iman said...: The man had a gritty and soulful voice for rock music and co-wrote some iconic songs…

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bobby-whitlock-derek-and-the-dominos-founder-dies/; 8/10/25, 10:25 PM