Oktubre 23, 2015

Hai-kudos to James Taranto for "Bye-ku for Lincoln Chafee."

Don’t judge till you’ve walked
One point six kilometers
In his granite shoes
Brilliant.

20 komento:

Bayoneteer ayon kay ...

Link behind pay wall. If u arent a WSJ subscriber, dont bother.

Bay Area Guy ayon kay ...

Lincoln Chaffee's Dad -- John Chaffee -- was a total stud.

The elder Chaffee was a Marine Corps Officer during WWII, and fought on Guadalcanal. He became Secretary of the Navy, Governor and then Senator of Rhode Island.

The problem, though, was that he was a Northeastern moderate, so some Conservatives started calling him a "RINO," which was kinda discordant.

As for his dilitante son, Lincoln? Gotta lot of mileage outta his pop's name, but not sure he ever did much on his own.........

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

"Link behind pay wall. If u arent a WSJ subscriber, dont bother."

I'm not going to explain every time how to deal with that. Everyone should know by now.

Static Ping ayon kay ...

Agreed. That's how to write a haiku.

CJinPA ayon kay ...

Usually you can get around the WSJ paywall by googling some of the text and reading it elsewhere. Didn't work for the poem.

I say this only because as many people as possible should read James Taranto, one of the most consistently interesting and witty political writers around today.

FullMoon ayon kay ...

Ann Althouse said... [hush]​[hide comment]

"Link behind pay wall. If u arent a WSJ subscriber, dont bother."

I'm not going to explain every time how to deal with that. Everyone should know by now.


Please, Mom, one more time? Pleeze!

No? OK. Copy and paste text provided by professor. If it doesn't work today, it will work tomorrow.

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

I don't mind explaining it, but I think the topic is a distraction. It comes up every time I link to the WSJ.

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

I feel sorry for James Taranto because his wonderful column is so social-media-friendly, but it's cut off from the action... or open to it, but only clunkily.

Amexpat ayon kay ...

Cutting and pasting works for the poem now.

Michelle Dulak Thomson ayon kay ...

What I want to know is why I -- with a WSJ subscription -- can't see Taranto's text until you link it. It shows up in my own browser around 10 p.m.

averagejoe ayon kay ...

I get the metric system reference, but not the granite shoes.

Wilbur ayon kay ...

I religiously read and greatly enjoyed Taranto's column for several years.
Paywall goes up, that's the end for me.

Bayoneteer ayon kay ...

What kind of major league blogger refers to published items without an excerpt or working link?

Why are so many Althouse commenters such clueless assholes that who immediately assume no one knows how to use a seach engine?

The collective venom and relflexive shit tier conservatism is also why one or two lame proggie trolls can blow up a whole thread out of pique.

Bay Area Guy ayon kay ...

A major setback for the Metric System:)

furious_a ayon kay ...

Pony up, you cheap bastards, and buy a subscription, the digital content comes with it.

It's worth it for the Wednesday Jenkins and Thursday Henninger columns alone.

Hagar ayon kay ...

I google WSJ and then copy Best of the Web and today's title and paste it into google line at the top of the screen.
Some days it does not immediately work, but after some hours, and sometimes the next day, but most of the time it works fine.

Michael K ayon kay ...

"Gotta lot of mileage outta his pop's name, but not sure he ever did much on his own........."

We weren't talking about the new PM of Canada.

Oh, wait....

Birches ayon kay ...

Taranto is the only person I'll go through the extra step to get through the paywall for. If you follow him on twitter, he posts the title of Best of the Web, so it's easy to google. But you do have to wait a few minutes for it to show up. Usually I give it about a half an hour.

Big Mike ayon kay ...

He must pronounce "kilometers" strangely in order to get the right number of syllables in the 2nd line.

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

@averagejoe

"You're looking at a block of granite."

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