Althouse: At the Yellow Tree Café...

October 21, 2012

At the Yellow Tree Café...

... I think it's bright enough to read.

32 comments:

campy said...: Not a particularly tall tree, is Ye Low Yellow Tree ...; 10/21/12, 7:38 PM
traditionalguy said...: that tree doesn't have a maple's shape, but that yellow color indicates it may be a maple from the north country. Hmmm.; 10/21/12, 7:39 PM
Dan said...: Can't be from Madison or Wisconsin now, can it? I thought the leaves were already gone.; 10/21/12, 7:47 PM
Tim said...: It's Orange tonight.

Orange in the stands.

Orange on the field.

Orange on the scoreboard.

This S.F. Giants team defines "resiliency."

They may lose this series, or the next/ but they do not quit.

Life lessons here: as long as you have a chance, you have a chance.

Don't blow yours.; 10/21/12, 7:47 PM
Ralph L said...: My pecan trees are still green and squirrely.; 10/21/12, 7:52 PM
mesquito said...: My pecan trees are raining pecans. At night I here critters out there munching munching munching.; 10/21/12, 8:00 PM
edutcher said...: Good to see you had a nice day.

Thank you for sending your beautiful weather our way.; 10/21/12, 8:10 PM
rhhardin said...: Fetch just learned (video).

Retrieving an object not thrown.; 10/21/12, 8:14 PM
Chip Ahoy said...: Proof Drudge is a girl.

Front page hopscotch photo array purporting to portray foreign policy. Lists tyrants endorsing O.

So you throw something onto the grid pattern, I don't know know what, your keys, wallet, I don't know, then you skip one foot, hop one foot, hop two feet splat, hop one foot lean over and pick up the thrown object whilst balancing on one foot and still one -legged hop two feet splat right into the squares, so you see the game takes a good deal of olympic level athletics. Girls.; 10/21/12, 8:14 PM
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Anonymous said...: It is OVER for the GOP. Tomorrow is the D-Day, the Waterloo, Normandy, etc. All into one.

Tomorrow, We at the WH will see how the Press teams with us to sabotage and destroy and destruct the GOP.

We will get new polls from Nate just before Noon. That will seriously under-mine the GOP. We will have Gloria Allred send a tweet by 5 PM. Already the PBS guru, Ken Burns, endorse the POTUS Obama.

We have Russia, Iran, etc. endorse the POTUS.

Every-one on this planet wants Obama.

No one loves Romney. NO ONE. Not even the robot on Mars.

GOP: Do you feel the loneliness of not being loved?; 10/21/12, 8:31 PM
Mr Evilwrench said...: It can't be worse than being alone in your delusional alternate universe; 10/21/12, 8:45 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Looks like San Francisco wants to win this thing.; 10/21/12, 8:56 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: What the hell?; 10/21/12, 8:57 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Did you catch the hat?; 10/21/12, 8:58 PM
bagoh20 said...: Gallup Tracking 10/14 - 10/20 2700LV Romney +7

IBD/TIPP Tracking 10/15 - 10/20 938 LV Obama +6

Somebody is full of shit.; 10/21/12, 9:07 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: And then we have a scheduling conflict tomorrow nite... the last presidential debate and the deciding game of the National League playoffs.

That's a tough choice for me. I dont have a fancy tele.; 10/21/12, 9:51 PM
Tim said...: Lem said...

"And then we have a scheduling conflict tomorrow nite... the last presidential debate and the deciding game of the National League playoffs.

That's a tough choice for me. I dont have a fancy tele."

Not so tough for me.

I already know who I'm voting for.

The last four years have been enough, notwithstanding the fact Obama is the least experienced man ever nominated and then elected president.

If we're lucky, he'll always be the least experienced man ever elected president.

If I'm lucky, my Giants will clinch tomorrow, and host another two games at AT&T.; 10/21/12, 10:11 PM
Curious George said...: "Dan said...
Can't be from Madison or Wisconsin now, can it? I thought the leaves were already gone." I'm in 'toas (suburb of Milwaukee and we still have green leaves on some of our trees. Those that have turned have most of their leaves.; 10/21/12, 10:17 PM
wyo sis said...: I missed the 1st debate and watched the vice president and 2nd presidential debate. I'm trying to decide whether to watch tomorrow or not. I can barely stand to watch Obama speak.; 10/21/12, 10:26 PM
pm317 said...: Jolly video of Romney officiating a flag football between his staff and the press people on the beach. The two captains are women (heh) with lady parts.; 10/21/12, 10:31 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: I can barely stand to watch Obama speak.

The game will start around 8pm eastern and the debate will start around 9pm eastern... so by the time the debate starts the game should be in the 3rd inning or so.

I think I'm going to be watching the dabate... by the end of wich the game should be around the 7th inning.

I really like like that super slow motion camera Fox has... when the bat makes contact with the ball there's a wave of energy that travels from the bat up to the batters arms that we could not otherwise see with the naked eye.

For a brief moment baseball gets mythbustity and I'm in TV heaven.; 10/21/12, 10:52 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: How about Romney's advice...

Figure out which of their players is best and take him out early.

Thats the primaries strategery right there..; 10/21/12, 11:01 PM
Dante said...: Here is a paragraph from the book The other Wes Moore one Name, Two Fates, which he is required to read for college English.

The letter Mary was hiding explained that the federal budget for Basic Educational Opportunity Grants - or Pell Grants - was being slashed, and her grant was being terminated. Pells - need - based financial awards for college - were part of a larger federal budget cut back in 1982 (during his eight years in office, Ronald Reagan, reduced the education budget by half). Mary realized the letter effectively closed the door on her college aspirations. She had already completed 16 hours of college credits and would get no closer toward college graduation.

That's English. No, not Brainwashing 101, not leftist Poli-Sci 101, that's English.

Well, they took a good turn from Althouse and the Middle in the proper use of the hyphen.; 10/21/12, 11:16 PM
Dante said...: Oh, that's my Son's college text. I hope he doesn't get slammed when he disagrees with the propaganda. Hah! fat chance.; 10/21/12, 11:19 PM
Dante said...: OK, here is an odd thought. Female sexuality is different than male sexuality (of course). But for a woman, it's a slow ebb that needs to be fulfilled. Don't get it enough, and the female becomes cranky, and irritable.

Male sexuality, well, we know what that is.; 10/21/12, 11:27 PM
Clyde said...: Fox News will show a replay of the debate a few hours later, so if it's one or the other, watch the game live and the replay of the debate.; 10/22/12, 4:13 AM
Tim said...: "I really like like that super slow motion camera Fox has... when the bat makes contact with the ball there's a wave of energy that travels from the bat up to the batters arms that we could not otherwise see with the naked eye."

True.

But not nearly enough to offset the ongoing horror show that is Jack Buck and Tim McCarver.

They are truly awful.

*LOVED* how McCarver jinxed Vogelsong's no-hitter last night.

(Yeah, I know...); 10/22/12, 9:52 AM
Strelnikov said...: "so if it's one or the other, watch the game live and the replay of the debate."

As Peg Bundy once famously said, "Everyone knows you watch Oprah and tape Phil."; 10/22/12, 10:15 AM
JOB said...: Yellow woods array in patterns that repeat,
Entangling brittle-branched zigzags of limbs
Lost in familiar double-crosses, split
Like lineages. At issue, the names
Of cladrasis: the older lutea
Withdrawn as merely colored circumstance,
While golden heartwood finds kentuckea
Observe a land of stated permanence.

Old Jacob rested life, his wrestling hand –
Declaring Ephraim before Manassas –
Selected Joseph’s second-born son as
Yew trees’ autumn theme: bending boughs depend
Earthward, piercing churchyard flesh, and winter’s bones
Withdraw from Yahweh’s alleluia stones.; 10/22/12, 10:27 AM
Craig Howard said...: Looks as if you're having an oddly late Fall, too.

Over here, in western New York State, there have been two autumns: the first batch of leaves peaked a week or so ago, but more than half the trees didn't participate and are only now joining in.

Everyone is trying to turn that into a predicion of the upcoming winter, though I suspect it's a result of the past summer.; 10/22/12, 7:12 PM
reformed trucker said...: Hey Ann, I know you're live bloggin' and all (the debate sucks so far; Obama figures if he talks out his ass forcefully enough it will have merit) but did you hear about the UW Whitewater student that got his face pounded in by two guys that tried to steal his Romney sign?

Early Friday morning he noticed them swipe his sign, and stepped out and said "I think you have my sign." They said, "Oh, sorry", and came and put it back. Then they jumped him, and strangled him while they pounded in his face, uttering anti-Romney and pro-Obama comments.So bad he needed to go to the hospital.The student was state Senator Kedzie's son Sean, but I'm sure the attackers didn't know that; they were just pounding on him because he supported Romney/Ryan.

I thought things were bad during Capitol Chaos, but this is unfuckingbelievable. The new "civility".

This story is just breaking; heard the interview live this afternoon. They have a link to the conversation at Belling.com. It's worth a listen; I think you'll feel a blog post coming on...; 10/22/12, 8:46 PM