Althouse: At the Big Dog Café...

November 1, 2013

At the Big Dog Café...

... you can talk all night.

37 comments:

CWJ said...: What I said at 7:17 in the comment thread of the previous post. I've been waiting for a "café" to make my comment, but the Jonathan Chait thread seemed apropos.; 11/1/13, 8:53 PM
Chance said...: What breed is the shaggy one? He's awesome.; 11/1/13, 10:40 PM
pm317 said...: CWJ.. fine comment in the previous thread. Media is the biggest culprit in this country in the age of Obama. We saw it front and center during Democratic primary of 2008. If you are not a Hillary supporter, you would perhaps say you don't care what happened in Dem primary 2008. But it was an eye opener for many of us. They usurped the pretender to the throne and nobody, no entity least of all the media who are expected to be honest brokers should have that kind of power.; 11/1/13, 11:30 PM
AlanKH said...: Would things be different if the NSA spied on Obamacare website developers instead of Angela Merkel and the Pope?; 11/1/13, 11:54 PM
CWJ said...: Thank you pm317.; 11/2/13, 12:33 AM
CWJ said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/2/13, 12:33 AM
rhhardin said...: How soon we forget

"What exactly are the impressive achievements of President Obama? The revival of the American economy? Surging job growth? The success of the stimulus package and the number of “shovel ready jobs”? Moving us toward energy independence? Reducing the debt? Reducing poverty and the number of Americans on food stamps? His oversight of agencies like the IRS? The Fast and Furious program? Ending America’s political divisions and unifying his countrymen? Perhaps his skillful handling before, during, and after the terrorist assault on the American diplomatic outpost in Benghazi? His successes in Syria? Egypt? Iraq? Iran? Peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis? And don’t forget his signature domestic achievement, the Affordable Care Act, which may rank among the worst major government programs in modern American history, a failure in both conception and implementation."

Wehner via instapundit; 11/2/13, 5:40 AM
rhhardin said...: The result of the investigation into the Los Angeles airport shooting will determine that security was lax.

You heard it here first.

It's the irresistable baggage-tag effect.; 11/2/13, 7:05 AM
Anonymous said...: There is a Loose Thread, Just Hanging There, Loose. I Want to Pull at It, But -- Perhaps Irrationally, Perhaps Not -- I Feel That I Should Not. I Cannot Identify Why I Have This Particular Feeling. I Attempt to Analyze the Root Causes of This Feeling But Find Myself Distracted By the Loose Thread, Still Hanging There, Loose. For Some Reason It Makes Me Think of Teeth, and Thoughts of Teeth are Really Thoughts About Mortality. So I Look at This Loose Thread and Say to Myself: It is Not a Tooth, Stop Thinking That Way. I Reach Out to Simply Touch It -- Not Pull It, No -- But Stop Short, Because of the Inchoate Feeling That I Should Not Even Touch It: a Distance Must Be Kept. I Also Now Realize I Am Running My Tongue Against the Back of My Front Teeth and Wonder if I Am Subconsciously Assuring Myself That They Are Still There. I Have No Sense of Needing to Pull a Tooth Free of My Mouth But I Have the Thought of Doing So, and Tell Myself: It is Just a Loose Thread, Let it Be. But Why Has This Single Particular Thread Come Loose in the First Place? I Thumb the Pages of My Memory to See If I Can Identify the Moment When it Came Loose, But Every Memory is After the Fact. I Am Perplexed.; 11/2/13, 7:54 AM
Anonymous said...: Now I've Done It. I Pulled the Thread: Just a Little, Then Just a Little More. I Can Never Un-Pull It, It Has Been Done. Everything Is Hurtling Towards Chaos.; 11/2/13, 8:01 AM
Anonymous said...: If Everything in the Universe Is Somehow Connected, Have I Begun a Cosmic Unravelling? Everything Appears the Same, but I Cannot See Behind the Things I See: Things Have Been Set in Motion.; 11/2/13, 8:05 AM
Anonymous said...: There Will Be Repercussions: I Accept That.; 11/2/13, 8:09 AM
Anonymous said...: Why Was I Chosen to Be the One to Pull the Thread? This Must Be Significant.; 11/2/13, 8:10 AM
Anonymous said...: The Key Point is That I Was Chosen: It Was a Calling From a Greater Power, For Reasons That My Finite Thoughts May Never Comprehend.; 11/2/13, 8:13 AM
Anonymous said...: I Sense In Myself a Spiritual Awakening: I AM the Chosen. I Have Been Selected. I Must Lead.; 11/2/13, 8:15 AM
Anonymous said...: I Require No Monuments: Earthly Significance Now Bores Me.; 11/2/13, 8:15 AM
Anonymous said...: Some May Choose to Not Follow Me: That Is Their Choice. I Cannot Save Everybody.; 11/2/13, 8:17 AM
rhhardin said...: Lips are to keep your mouth from unraveling.; 11/2/13, 8:23 AM
Anonymous said...: The Voices In My Head Have Been There All Along: I Know Now That I Was Wrong to Suppress Them. My Feelings of Dread Have Been Replaced By an Overwhelming Sense of Purpose.; 11/2/13, 8:24 AM
Anonymous said...: I Cast No Ill Will to the Unbelievers: Their Awakening Will Come At What Will First Seem Simply a Random Moment. The Appropriateness of the Moment Will Reveal Itself in Time. I Have a Euphoric Sense of Patience.; 11/2/13, 8:38 AM
Anonymous said...: I Am Warm in My State of Evolving Consciousness. I Will Share This Warmth with the Spiritually Cold. All Will Be at the Room Temperature of My Soul.; 11/2/13, 8:41 AM
Anonymous said...: The Unexplainable Shall Be Explained Through Me: the Voices Have Said This, and I Am the Vessel, the Grail and the Wick.; 11/2/13, 8:44 AM
Anonymous said...: There is No Need For You to Fear the Awakening: My Eyes Will Be Your Eyes, All the Voices Will Be Heard. All Will Be Equal Under My Gaze.; 11/2/13, 8:47 AM
Anonymous said...: I Shall Be the Prism Through Which You Will See the Entire Spectrum Available to You: the Light of Good, the Color of Bad. Do Not Be Angry at What You Might See.; 11/2/13, 8:55 AM
Anonymous said...: The Voices In My Head Converse With the Dead. The Departed Are Always With Us: I Will Help You Listen.; 11/2/13, 8:57 AM
Anonymous said...: The Dead Understand the Nature of the Universe: They Want to Help You Understand. I Will Do My Best to Explain For Them.; 11/2/13, 8:59 AM
Anonymous said...: I Realize That There Will Be Those Who Mock Me. I Take Comfort in Knowing That -- One Day -- Death Will Bring Them My Truth.; 11/2/13, 9:02 AM
Anonymous said...: The Dead Love You, All of You. Free of the Self, They are Selfless. Let Me Help Them Lead You to the Better Place.; 11/2/13, 9:04 AM
Anonymous said...: I Have Changed My Mind on One Thing -- I Can Do This, It is a Sign of the Consciousness Expanding: A Monument or Two Might Be Nice, Thank You.; 11/2/13, 9:05 AM
Anonymous said...: Skepticism is Only a Mask for Your Fear; Only You Can Remove the Mask. I Will Be Your Mirror.; 11/2/13, 9:10 AM
Anonymous said...: The Recently Departed Walter Says To Let Go of the Burden, It is Not Yours to Carry. The Right Person Will Know What This Means.; 11/2/13, 9:11 AM
Anonymous said...: The Recently Departed Aunt Rita Says Your Indecision of Whether to Purchase a New Mattress is Little in the Great Scheme of Things: Choose to Be Comfortable. Know that in The Next World There Is No Need for Sleep.; 11/2/13, 9:19 AM
Anonymous said...: You Really are the Descendant of Long-Ago Royalty: This Has Been Confirmed to Me. The Fifteenth Century Is Still Here Around Us.; 11/2/13, 9:22 AM
Anonymous said...: Your Sister Forgives You: Know That and Take Peace from That. She Looks Forward to the Time When You Will Join Her, in the Place Where There is No Pain, No Regret,; 11/2/13, 9:26 AM
Anonymous said...: Sometimes the Voices can Be Overwhelming, But I Persevere, For You.; 11/2/13, 9:26 AM
David Davenport said...: What breed is the shaggy one? He's awesome.

There is no such thing as different "breeds" of dogs, just as there are not different breeds of humans.

Dog breeds are a cultural construct. All differences in the appearance, behavior, or size of canines is the result of culture and environment, not genetics.

Just like people, all dogs are innately and genetically equally endowed.; 11/2/13, 10:01 AM
rhhardin said...: Motivational Speakers Cemetery bizarro blog; 11/2/13, 1:18 PM