Althouse: At the Asparagaceae Café...

April 13, 2015

At the Asparagaceae Café...

... floral blueness flows right under the fence.

24 comments:

MadisonMan said...: I was gone for a week or so. Sure was nice to come back -- after all that rain -- and see everything jumping up in the garden. All the travel gave me a wicked cold though.

Once the wind dies down -- tomorrow morning -- I'll get out on the lake.; 4/13/15, 1:25 PM
David said...: Looks like a great spot for kittens.; 4/13/15, 1:48 PM
Tank said...: Why are the closing decades of my life a political nightmare? I had eight years of Bush, a well meaning incompetent faux conservative. Eight years of Zero. Now I may get four to eight years of The Vagina from Hell.

I musta done somebody wrong.

But who?; 4/13/15, 1:57 PM
sparrow said...: Tank
Matthew 5:45
He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.; 4/13/15, 2:12 PM
Hagar said...: Democracy is the system whereby the people get the government they want - and they deserve to get get it, good and hard.; 4/13/15, 2:17 PM
I'm Full of Soup said...: Sometimes I wonder if you and Meade are just making up the names of these flowers. Cause I would't know if you were.; 4/13/15, 2:21 PM
Big Mike said...: But which member of the Asparagaceae family? I presume not the Asparagus genus, but it is the "controversial" scilla?; 4/13/15, 2:31 PM
Clayton Hennesey said...: "Why are the closing decades of my life a political nightmare? I had eight years of Bush, a well meaning incompetent faux conservative. Eight years of Zero. Now I may get four to eight years of The Vagina from Hell.

I musta done somebody wrong.

But who?"

Fear not, for I bring you tidings of great maybe not.

Now that the endless foreplay is coming to a close, Democrats themselves are going to be asking what the next four to eight years have in store for them. Given the host of things Obama never really gave them beyond some smooth rap, will they really dismiss the opportunity to at least hear from a Warren, O'Malley, or Webb? Even if Democrats are so slavishly robotic as to concede as a whole that it must be a woman, i.e., Clinton or Warren alone and, if not Warren, then only Clinton, the 40% in the middle who can go either way are not.

If others enter the Democratic arena, Clinton will embarrass herself. If she tries to blow them out with funding (up to 2.5 billion?), she will embarrass herself as Madame Moneybags. Either way, the Democrats are saddled with a strategic imbalance: a grossly overweight albatross attended by sparrows, only one or two of whom (e.g., maybe Jim Webb) have anything approaching presidential level talent.

Against the Dremocrats' strategic imbalance, OTOH, the Republicans have a veritable Walmart warehouse from which to assemble a winning (Republican + Independent) Pres-VP combination.

Go, now, and drink heavily, nevertheless. It's a long way to November, 2016.; 4/13/15, 2:35 PM
Hagar said...: I do not think Obama is a Moslem - or adherent of any other specific creed, for that matter - but that would not prevent him from being sympathetic to Islam and - given his parentage and upbringing - disposed to believe it really is "the religion of peace" and everything would be just fine and dandy if it was not for the agression and persecution, etc., and so on, practiced by "the crusaders."; 4/13/15, 2:37 PM
Hagar said...: Ayaan Hirsi Ali and others beg to differ.; 4/13/15, 2:38 PM
traditionalguy said...: What if a 23 year old college student is seduced into quitting school and marrying a 34 year old woman? Does anyone see any problem in that?

Or are we supposed to think that the young man got lucky?

Hint: is a question that Scott Walker will punt on.; 4/13/15, 2:39 PM
MadisonMan said...: Yes, scilla. It is a member of the asparagaceae family.; 4/13/15, 2:59 PM
Ignorance is Bliss said...: traditionalguy said...

What if a 23 year old college student is seduced into quitting school and marrying a 34 year old woman? Does anyone see any problem in that?

Yes, a fuckload of people see a problem in that. The same fuckload of people who think that they can run everyone else's life better than it is already being run, and wish to use the force of government to do so.

Or are we supposed to think that the young man got lucky?

We are supposed to think it is up to the young man to make his own decision, and to determine for himself if he got lucky or not.

Hint: is a question that Scott Walker will punt on.

I suspect Scott Walker would say he got lucky. From outward appearances he seems to be happy with the choices he made. Why should he care if some a-hole on the internet has a different opinion?; 4/13/15, 3:00 PM
garage mahal said...: Walker's wife is only 8 years younger than Hillary.; 4/13/15, 3:03 PM
Bob Ellison said...: Looks like wood hyacinth. I think I say that every year, this time of year, when the flower photos go up.; 4/13/15, 3:10 PM
Beldar said...: Very nice. Almost as nice as a field of Texas bluebonnets and Indian paintbrush -- both of which are in high bloom in my home state right now.; 4/13/15, 3:38 PM
BudBrown said...: http://hort.uwex.edu/articles/siberian-squill ??; 4/13/15, 3:54 PM
Quaestor said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 4/13/15, 3:59 PM
Quaestor said...: I wish Ann would track down those researchers on her campus who determined that Guinness stout is indeed good for you (i. e. me) I'd ask her to shake their hands for me.

Hat tip to Instapundit

Guinness stout was the first beer I ever had in public. I was underage and looking to score my first pint at the local pizza hangout. Most kids tried to buy the brands they'd heard of TV, Coors mainly. So when they asked for Coors or Bud or Miller they'd inevitably be carded, discovered to be under legal age, and asked to leave.

I contrived to snag a brew by applying a bit of jejune psychology, the bartender being only slightly more jejune than myself. If figured that if I asked for a beer that was somehow "elite" and obscure to the average 17 year old, the publican would assume I knew my way around the malted beverage world -- an expert who was older than he looked. So I ordered a pepperoni with mushrooms and a Guinness. And I got it! No card asked for or produced.

Man, that stuff was bitter to my virgin palate. But I resolved to drink it down and at least appear to enjoy it, lest my stratagem be discovered. The next Friday night I tried the same trick and got the same beer and pizza as before. I had 'em fooled, eating out of my hand, so to speak. And what's more, I started to genuinely enjoy my Guinness, even though it was the bottled kind. Imagine my joy when I discovered Guinness on tap.; 4/13/15, 4:03 PM
Ann Althouse said...: "But which member of the Asparagaceae family? I presume not the Asparagus genus, but it is the "controversial" scilla?"

Yep.

I used Asparagaceae as the name of the café because I thought it was cool that this little blue flowers were in a family with asparagus.; 4/13/15, 4:43 PM
Pianoman said...: Reminds me of "A Scanner Darkly".

"A flower for my friends .. at Thanksgiving."; 4/13/15, 7:42 PM
Michael K said...: "Go, now, and drink heavily, nevertheless. It's a long way to November, 2016."

Yes and I will be almost 78 and therefore immune to most of the damage that the Democratic Party will wreak on the country.

I'm reading Fred Siegel's book and it is most interesting about what happened to liberalism. I usually resist using that term of the left but he is making a good case. Now, if I can only get my leftist daughter to read it. She is the only one with possibilities. Her two older siblings are immune to logic. (Both lawyers); 4/13/15, 8:12 PM
rhhardin said...: Asparagaceae are weak on social skills.; 4/13/15, 8:23 PM
rhhardin said...: Brillenbrillanz, n.

spectacles-luminosity

"The sudden, innervating clarity afforded by new glasses"

It lasts for about an hour, then it seems everyday like before except things aren't blurry.; 4/14/15, 8:55 PM