Althouse: At the Brown-and-Blue Café...

October 23, 2014

At the Brown-and-Blue Café...

... think deeply.

24 comments:

MadisonMan said...: I have to take the Paddleboard out for one last spin around the lake this weekend. Been off the water since July (!) because I've been lazy.; 10/23/14, 12:35 PM
Curious George said...: "MadisonMan said...
I have to take the Paddleboard out for one last spin around the lake this weekend. Been off the water since July (!) because I've been lazy."

I just took my pier out up north last week...still have the chills!; 10/23/14, 12:53 PM
MadisonMan said...: I haven't fallen in since 2012!

I know putting it in writing kinda guarantees an immersion, but.... Mendota is in the mid-50s. I suspect Wingra is colder.; 10/23/14, 12:57 PM
traditionalguy said...: Danger, Will Robinson! A Polar Vortex of super freezing Siberian Express Global Warming air is headed your way.; 10/23/14, 1:05 PM
Curious George said...: "MadisonMan said...
I haven't fallen in since 2012!

I know putting it in writing kinda guarantees an immersion, but.... Mendota is in the mid-50s. I suspect Wingra is colder."

Wingra is shallow, so it will be colder. My lake level rose six inches in September with those monster rains...just high enough to get over my waders. If you never had the experience of the sudden inflow of cold water into a pair of waders...well, refreshing is not the word.; 10/23/14, 1:07 PM
Ann Althouse said...: "I haven't fallen in since 2012!"

Just don't pick a windy day. If there's no wind, it's easy not to fall in.; 10/23/14, 1:14 PM
Jaq said...: Fall is all about the ever changing color harmonies.; 10/23/14, 1:31 PM
Anonymous said...: Nearly 50 elected district attorneys from around Wisconsin have declined a request by a conservative group to investigate the Milwaukee County prosecutor behind a secret probe into Gov. Scott Walker's campaign and his allies.

Citing a conflict of interest, Dodge County District Attorney Kurt Klomberg, a Republican, turned down the investigation request by the conservative activist Chris Kliesmet, a member of Citizens for Responsible Government, a group that has supported Walker.

After denying Kliesmet's request for a secret probe into the conduct of Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm, a Democrat, Klomberg then asked 49 other district attorneys around the state whether they would be able to take on the case. One didn't answer and the other 48 declined to investigate Chisholm, citing conflicts of interest or a lack of resources.

State Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, a Republican, also declined to take the case because of a conflict of interest, Klomberg wrote in a letter Wednesday to Kliesmet.

Unable to find a district attorney anywhere in southern Wisconsin to take the case, Klomberg instead on Wednesday asked Dodge County Clerk of Courts Lynn Hron to assign the request to a judge in the county who can then decide whether to appoint a special prosecutor in the case.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/nearly-50-das-decline-to-investigate-chisholm-in-john-doe-b99376883z1-280219202.html; 10/23/14, 3:07 PM
Original Mike said...: "If you never had the experience of the sudden inflow of cold water into a pair of waders...well, refreshing is not the word.""

Nah, I think "refreshing" is exactly the word.; 10/23/14, 4:02 PM
Jaq said...: "Invigoratin'!"

I had a friend who used to say that when the wind blew cold.; 10/23/14, 4:12 PM
paminwi said...: Look who is spending money like crazy THIS election cycle!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/10/22/these-10-candidates-have-faced-163-million-in-negative-ads-and-thats-a-low-estimate/; 10/23/14, 5:42 PM
Freeman Hunt said...: Have you ever had a dream about someone who died, gotten used to them being alive in the dream, and then been quite disappointed to wake up and be instantly aware that the person died years ago? And dreams generally don't switch off abruptly; they fade off quickly, so there's that tiny moment of fade when the person is still there and you have the knowledge that the person is actually dead and you will not be able to experience this in reality. "Wait!" It's something like the opposite of waking up from a nightmare.; 10/23/14, 9:29 PM
Saint Croix said...: Ebola #3 in NYC. Mayor says don't panic.

I kinda wish they were a little more panicked. I would panic less if they would panic more.

"We're on top of it." Good.

"This is not a problem." Fuck you.; 10/23/14, 9:31 PM
Saint Croix said...: Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday urged residents not to be alarmed by the doctor's Ebola diagnosis, even as they described him riding the subway, taking a cab and bowling.

Seriously, what the fuck?; 10/23/14, 10:23 PM
Saint Croix said...: Could somebody with just a touch of OCD work for the CDC, please?; 10/23/14, 10:25 PM
Saint Croix said...: and scrub that fucking cab; 10/23/14, 10:25 PM
Saint Croix said...: with soap; 10/23/14, 10:25 PM
Saint Croix said...: Yeah, I've been in Africa.

Helping out the little people.

Hey, did you get your flu shot?; 10/23/14, 10:28 PM
Saint Croix said...: I will smack the next liberal who says "flu shot."; 10/23/14, 10:29 PM
Saint Croix said...: CDC budget crisis:

ebola

or

scourge of rape in the halls of academia?; 10/23/14, 10:38 PM
Saint Croix said...: We're all going to be drunk, trying to get laid in our hazmat suits, trying to sign the goddamn consent forms, worried about poking a hole in our hazmat suits, the damn pen has no ink, fucking government!; 10/23/14, 10:41 PM
Laura said...: Freeman, I beg for those dreams, dreams of my father.; 10/24/14, 1:36 AM
chillblaine said...: My father passed away five years ago. Every time I dream about him, he is alive. In the dream, I have awareness that he did die, and he isn't exactly hale. Like he has been on a wearying journey and returned.; 10/24/14, 10:30 AM
Freeman Hunt said...: I don't know that I would want another dream that like. It was not pleasant to wake up and find out that the person was dead.; 10/24/14, 11:46 PM