Althouse: At the Harvest Café...

November 3, 2014

At the Harvest Café...

... if you're rad, dish.

(Photo by Meade.)

47 comments:

Henry said...: Sliced thin on a buttered half baguette with salt.; 11/3/14, 10:47 AM
traditionalguy said...: Did you say Rad Paul?; 11/3/14, 11:09 AM
FleetUSA said...: Yes, a bit of salt and very tasty.; 11/3/14, 11:35 AM
Coconuss Network said...: Legendary Steve Dahl on WLS-am Radio today live streaming from 2-6pm, to go with the salted radishes. You can serve 'em sliced for breakfast with lachs, peppers, tomatoes, hard-boiled eggs, and an assortment of bakery breads and cheeses. Congrats on the Harvest.; 11/3/14, 11:38 AM
George M. Spencer said...: Video of an actual slave market conducted by ISIS.

I wish there were a country called the United States of America and a President of the United States of America. This country and its leader, if it had one, would mercilessly annihilate monsters like those in this video.; 11/3/14, 11:39 AM
FullMoon said...: The suicide lady killed herself.; 11/3/14, 11:43 AM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...: Whither Crack?

1. He's traveling or incarcerated.

2. He's grown weary of trying to wake our cracka asses to our own perfidiousness and has decided to concentrate his energies elsewhere.

3. Althouse banned him for his knee-jerk off-topic racist rants.

4. Althouse banned him because his knee-jerk off-topic racist rants provoked a hail of off-topic responses that derailed the comment stream in any given post.

If 1,godspeed, you black emperor.
If 2,I hope he keeps up the ggod fight. Though he might want to reconsider which honky mofos he should be directing his ire at.
If 3, he's no worse than many and should not have been banned.
If 4, that's on the responders. Crack's incontinence is his own, but he shouldn't be held liable for the inability of others to restrain themselves.; 11/3/14, 12:01 PM
lemondog said...: Today Obama called me, Clinton called and Scott Walker keeps sending me emails.

Ain't I popular.; 11/3/14, 12:12 PM
Coconuss Network said...: How's Silvio. Can he make it another Wisconsin Winter ?; 11/3/14, 12:15 PM
George M. Spencer said...: Thinking further about the ISIS slave market video...

And we do have a president who is African-American.

Talk about an opportunity for a 'terrible swift sword.'; 11/3/14, 12:24 PM
Ann Althouse said...: Re Crack: I deleted a couple of his comments for trying to change the subject near the top of the thread. That seems to have prompted a decision of his to express his views on his blog instead. I didn't tell him to go away and not to come back, and he's welcome to participate here if he wants. If you miss him or wish he'd return, you can say that here and there is a good chance he'll see it. You can also find his blog and read it. It's full of hostility toward me and Meade.; 11/3/14, 12:26 PM
Meade said...: Radishes — crisp, cold, and crunchy — have been eaten. Salt, no bread.

The blog has no ban function. Anyone "banned" has self-banned.

Silvio was built for Wisconsin winters and is thriving. At 9 yrs-old, he's still only halfway to 120K.; 11/3/14, 12:30 PM
FullMoon said...: Whither Crack?

Typically racist suppositions. The thought that Crack may have landed a lucrative gig or mundane job never entered your mind?
Crack never been incarcerated
Crack gets a little bit high with several friends,brings althouse up on the 50" LED. Saying "Watch this" he posts something provocative. As name calling and counter arguments begin to flow, each friend assumes the character of a particular Alhouse commenter.

They proceed to read the comments aloud in funny voices to the group while they maintain a nice buzz fed by beer, wine, evil weed, but mostly by laughter generated by worthless foam from the mouth.; 11/3/14, 1:11 PM
Hammond X. Gritzkofe said...: I'm beginning to very much appreciate Amazon Prime.

Signed up a couple of yrs ago when Instapundit was flogging Amazon Prime. Expected we'd mostly use the selection of free streaming movies. Not so much that, as Netflix has much wider selection.

However we are more often looking for and finding things we need on Amazon.
..big time and fuel saving of comparison shopping at a computer vs. driving all over city;
..especially since the nearest city where some things (high quality cookware, special parts, etc.) is 150+ miles away;
..prices on Amazon Prime, while often a bit higher than the same item from non-Prime Amazon vendors, are often the best available price because of no-charge Amazon Prime shipping.

Yesterday, after some searching, found a $2.00 microswitch for pump shutoff on Amazon Prime. Would have taken all day driving around to find it locally, Found it several places on the internet, but with $8.00-$10.00 shipping charge.; 11/3/14, 1:14 PM
Freeman Hunt said...: Come on back, Crack.; 11/3/14, 1:26 PM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...: 'Typically racist suppositions. The thought that Crack may have landed a lucrative gig or mundane job never entered your mind?
Crack never been incarcerated"

I was riffing on Crack.; 11/3/14, 1:28 PM
m stone said...: There's a very illuminating transcript of a speech by the NYT's David Brooks at a recent "Gathering" conference.

I've not been much of a fan of Brooks, but his take on our culture is worth reading.

There is a faith angle, but the talk is not preachy and covers a variety of topical subjects.

http://thegathering.com/e-updates/transcript-david-brooks-gathering-2014/; 11/3/14, 1:31 PM
Meade said...: "deleting" is not "banning"; 11/3/14, 1:33 PM
alan markus said...: Few of my thoughts Crack Emcee:

1) Macho Response was interesting when his focus was on New Age, Cults, etc. - he seemed to make a lot of sense. Guess he lost that battle and this is how he channels his anger.

2) I assume Shouting Thomas must be banned from this site or lost interest - he could really give it back to Crack - but lately he doesn't bother posting at Macho Response.

3) I kind of miss the old Macho Response - the one where he had that fetish for nude women bent over backwards with their vulva front and center to the camera. Never knew what was going to pop up on your screen first thing in the morning when you clicked on the site. Don't know where he got those pictures - maybe I haven't figured out the right words to Google.; 11/3/14, 1:36 PM
Ann Althouse said...: There are some commenters, and they know who they are, who are deleted all the time, whatever they say.

Crack isn't one of them, and in fact, Crack's retreat to his own blog distinguishes him from the commenters I am referring to but will not name. (In fact, I will delete your post if you name such a person, as in fact, I just did.)

Some people go where they are not wanted, others figure it out and don't go where they are not wanted. Some people are so sensitive to whether or not they are wanted — and I put myself in this group — that they will avoid places where they feel unwelcome or are in doubt about whether they are wanted.; 11/3/14, 1:38 PM
traditionalguy said...: Crack is still my friend friend. He just needs some space to come to terms with the horrors of the first half of the Twentieth Century. They were real horrors.; 11/3/14, 1:58 PM
madAsHell said...: Just returned from the doctor's office.

The receptionist asked if I had been outside the US in the last 21 days.; 11/3/14, 2:13 PM
Jaq said...: Now this is sad :(; 11/3/14, 2:59 PM
Freeman Hunt said...: Here is a tough one for an ardently pro life voter. One candidate has a mixed record on abortion but seems highly competent. The other is definitely pro life but seems grossly incompetent. The position is an important one.

How does the pro-lifer vote?

I'm thinking that you go with the competent guy as long as the abortion issue is trapped at the Supreme Court. But I could be wrong. What if this is a key stepping stone in competent guy's path to greater power later on where he might be a deciding factor in the determination of abortion rights? How is one to know?; 11/3/14, 3:15 PM
Jaq said...: That's easy. They are all incompetent. Some just project competence better than others.; 11/3/14, 3:19 PM
Jaq said...: Every once is a while you will get a glimpse of them and basically they are trying to bring down the blog as a place for discussion.

Go to Crack's blog, and see what he writes about Althouse, and she doesn't ban him.

I would comment on Crack's blog, but he doesn't really seek engagement, he seeks submission. Not really anyplace to go from there, which is how he likes it, I think.; 11/3/14, 3:34 PM
Jaq said...: madisonfella,

She deleted a couple of his comments, she didn't ban him. Read the whole thread. Yeesh!; 11/3/14, 3:36 PM
Jaq said...: His visuals are great though.; 11/3/14, 3:36 PM
RecChief said...: Did you grow any other tubers?

roasted parsnips with a little butter and salt is a great accompaniment to game.; 11/3/14, 3:39 PM
Heartless Aztec said...: Green/red with envy. And a late season bunch at that. Besides corn the one thing Florida does not grow well is the radish. Never had the first bit of luck with them. Now being rad on the other had - I went through an entire rad spectrum in the 60's. I'll take the good looking radishes these days if you don't mind.; 11/3/14, 3:54 PM
RecChief said...: Aw, darn, jsut heard that Tom Magliozzi has passed away.; 11/3/14, 3:54 PM
garage mahal said...: I don't think it's possible to ban a commenter on blogger.; 11/3/14, 4:09 PM
FedkaTheConvict said...: Ann cannot ban anyone since she doesn't own the domain. The most she could do is enable moderation or delete any posts.; 11/3/14, 4:20 PM
FedkaTheConvict said...: Its fun watching the FiveThirtyEight forecast; it cleared 70 percent on Saturday and it is currently at 75.5 percent chance that Republicans take the Senate.; 11/3/14, 4:22 PM
MadisonMan said...: But banning someone while publicly claiming that nobody is banned is kind of slimy and very deceitful.

And.....?

(In other words...so what?); 11/3/14, 4:33 PM
Be said...: Had a couple brief conversations with Crack a bit back; I wonder if he isn't processing stuff while in production on a new work. (He's actually a pretty talented musician.)

I'm very thankful that you folks allow me around, given my bent towards wigging out from time to time - especially after "falling back" for Winter.

Never really been a fan of the German Engineering BUT am so pleased to hear that Silvio's still kicking it in the snow. Love your pictures en route with the little silver sneaker. Kind of reminds me of happier times in my life (including Italian or French equivalents).

When did Mr. Meade plant those radishes? I've never had much luck with them; seems that they aren't much more than pink threads attached to roots after the harvest dates on the seed packets. I miss good, fresh radishes on buttered German black bread with a bit of salt. Oh, and a glass of beer. Lager's best.; 11/3/14, 4:46 PM
Be said...: Got through debating the ballot questions with the housemate last night.

http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/ele14/pip14idx.htm

I think that the ballot questions are more interesting than the elections for office. I guess I could ask about what other people have to vote on in terms of referenda, but could easily google, too.

Am now figuring out the Local candidates. I know who I'm voting Against for Governor, here in MA. The question is, what about for the other jobs? The US Congressman in my district's running unopposed. Usually I just vote for [blank]. Housemate's mentioning that I should write in the name of one of the neighbor (who ran for Alderman in my ward as a Libertarian) 's shih-tsus.; 11/3/14, 4:54 PM
madAsHell said...: Arrrgghh....Click from Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers has died.; 11/3/14, 5:01 PM
Ann Althouse said...: If you have a question about moderation, please email. I feel that discussing moderation gives energy to the troll. I am deleting comments that try to pressure me to explain things more. We've been through this before and it's not helpful to do it again. If you can't move on, ask me in the email.; 11/3/14, 5:05 PM
RecChief said...: I've said it before, we aren't being governed by an administration, but a PR firm.

This story is about a White House appointee trying to hide VA wait list deaths; 11/3/14, 5:34 PM
Be said...: madAsHell: Sob!

http://www.WBUR.org is posting a special broadcasts at 2100 tonight.

More here.

http://www.universalhub.com/2014/one-car-talk-guys-has-died; 11/3/14, 6:03 PM
chillblaine said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/3/14, 7:39 PM
Anonymous said...: In grad school in Iowa I met another grad student who grew up in an upper middle class family in Kansas. At one point we took a car trip together to a conference. That meant we ate in restaurants together a few times. At a salad bar I put slices of radish on my plate. He asked what they were. I was surprised he did not already know. Maybe they are a regional food.

All radishes need is salt on your plate.; 11/3/14, 8:21 PM
Anonymous said...: Ann and Meade,

Thanks for living your lives so publicly. I feel at home with many of the topics you discuss. My sister's birthday is within a couple of weeks of yours, Ann, and mine is within a couple of weeks of Meade's. Your marriage in 2009 was a bright spot in a year when sickness and death were present in my circle of friends and relatives.

I appreciate the work you go through so I can drop in, be entertained, and have a forum to express my thoughts from time to time. It looks like today may be more work than most.; 11/3/14, 8:32 PM
Anonymous said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/3/14, 8:38 PM
sojerofgod said...: I never could get excited by radishes. I guess I just don't like the hot stuff too much.

Crack Emcee:
I can't say I'm gonna miss him if he decides to leave. Not everything in life can be focused through the lens of things that happened in the past, or being aggrieved over wrongs real or perceived. "Life's not fair" as the philosopher SCAR said. I am far more interested in the future. The past is a lesson, if you care to learn it; the future an opportunity.; 11/3/14, 9:31 PM
sojerofgod said...: Oh, and I meant to say, "I never dwell on the past Dahling, it detracts from the now."
-Edna Mode; 11/3/14, 9:38 PM