Althouse: At the Curved Path Café...

September 3, 2014

At the Curved Path Café...

... take your turn.

19 comments:

m stone said...: Ran across the language oddity
paraprosdokians. (Winston Churchill loved them, thought Ann would too.) They are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected; frequently humorous.

Here's a couple:

Where there's a will, I want to be in it.

The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on my list.; 9/3/14, 5:02 PM
PB said...: Or straight road with fish-eyeing from a really wide-angle lens?; 9/3/14, 5:04 PM
mesquito said...: If you don't have anything nice to say about anyone, sit next to me.; 9/3/14, 5:08 PM
FullMoon said...: There are two rabbits in the bushes, lower left. Obvious once you see them; 9/3/14, 5:20 PM
Humperdink said...: I am ready for another road trip out west. The photo reminds of the wide open spaces. Last fall was our first one, best vacation ever. Loved Wyoming, Idaho and Montana.; 9/3/14, 5:24 PM
southcentralpa said...: So, the liberals will lustily huzzah a business who turns away customers who are bearing arms.

They will attempt to demomize, extort, and coerce business owners who do not want to compromise their beliefs about gay marriage by serving them.

So, what happens when the gay couple is bearing arms?; 9/3/14, 5:27 PM
FullMoon said...: Some people hear voices. Some see invisible people. Others have no imagination whatsoever.

Looking forward to betas' voices returning. No need to wonder why.; 9/3/14, 5:27 PM
southcentralpa said...: And if we're doing wordplay, I'll contribute "You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think."

[Reputedly, Dorothy Parker was given "horticulture" in the Algonquin game.]; 9/3/14, 5:35 PM
Beta Rube said...: I just can't bring myself to vote for a white one percenter who's ashamed to be seen in public with a black guy. Can't do it. And the shunning took place in my very own town.; 9/3/14, 5:39 PM
rhhardin said...: If it's like Central Ohio, the yellow flowers are wingstem.

Goldenrod is just starting.; 9/3/14, 7:02 PM
rhhardin said...: Dog Walk path tonight.

NASA Mars Rover ditto.; 9/3/14, 7:17 PM
rhhardin said...: In enlargement the flowers are too racimeish for wingstem.; 9/3/14, 7:21 PM
Tank said...: Be eating BBQ in Austin tomorrow !!

Oh ya.; 9/3/14, 7:37 PM
kjbe said...: Took the long way home, last night - biked the Lake Loop around Lake Monona. Took about 2 hours - great ride!; 9/3/14, 8:10 PM
Hagar said...: We need to stop thinking of IS/ISIS/ISIL as an Iraq/Syria problem. It is an ulcer that has erupted in that area at the moment, but the infection is throughout the Moslem world, and it is not going to be eradicated by just a local sponge-bath and a plaster.; 9/3/14, 8:40 PM
Hagar said...: And by "Moslem world," we should probably note that there are Moslem "no-go" areas for the police in Oslo, Norway now.; 9/3/14, 8:50 PM
MadisonMan said...: I haven't ridden the Cap City Trail for a while. I like that particular part.; 9/3/14, 9:36 PM
paminwi said...: Thursday AM: looks like the Halbig case will be heard en banc on December 17th.; 9/4/14, 9:08 AM
paminwi said...: Largely overlooked in the back and forth about what is being said and done (and not done) on the strategy for dealing with ISIS are the thoughts of the U.S. troops being deployed to Iraq. Rarely do we get a glimpse into their thoughts, but I received an email from a friend – a special operator who is in contact with his fellow soldiers who have been deployed to Iraq – that provides some insight. My friend said it would okay to pass along what he’s hearing anonymously: ‘I'm getting notes from the guys over in these operations centers in Iraq. Frustration and confusion reign. Their commander in chief has deployed them back into harm’s way with a defensive mission to only defend US facilities against ISIS, that it's not a US problem to solve, and the Iraqis must get their act together politically. Now today he says we are going to destroy and degrade ISIS, and in the same sentence that we are going to only manage them. Then we have our Vice President in a Howard Dean moment. My favorite quote of the day from an operator downrange ‘Chase them to the Gates of Hell? How the F$&k are we going to do that when we can't even leave the front gate of our base!?’”

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/special-report-bret-baier/blog/2014/09/04/baier-tracks-view-ground-iraq; 9/4/14, 9:10 AM