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November 16, 2017

At the Bicycle Café...

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64 comments:

Unknown said...: I have a question: we always have these cafe posts, right? So how come this blog never really covers food much?

Like, I'd love a nice collection of slow cooker vegetarian recipes, or whatever, but it seems like the only time food comes up is when it's political, like Obama and his waffle and Hillary's fascination that people in Iowa actually eat.

--Vance; 11/16/17, 8:19 PM
Will Cate said...: Got new bike. Giant Sedona.; 11/16/17, 8:19 PM
Sprezzatura said...: http://archive.seattleweekly.com/csp/mediapool/sites/dt.common.streams.StreamServer.cls?STREAMOID=m5_piTEz5xkG1Em_fbUlk8$daE2N3K4ZzOUsqbU5sYunUIulBWURVywKOXwKarRJWCsjLu883Ygn4B49Lvm9bPe2QeMKQdVeZmXF$9l$4uCZ8QDXhaHEp3rvzXRJFdy0KqPHLoMevcTLo3h8xh70Y6N_U_CryOsw6FTOdKL_jpQ-&CONTENTTYPE=image/jpeg; 11/16/17, 8:22 PM
Original Mike said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/16/17, 8:25 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: I got to bring mine inside.

I'll do it this weekend.; 11/16/17, 8:25 PM
Original Mike said...: Learn how to embed links, PB.; 11/16/17, 8:26 PM
Hagar said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/16/17, 8:27 PM
Hagar said...: Fibber McGee's closet again.
(Who was "the voice" for that?)

Will the Democrats move to impeach Bill Clinton retroactively in order to maintain the high moral bar they have set for today's scandals of the moment?; 11/16/17, 8:28 PM
Humperdink said...: Visited Churchill Downs today. Great place to visit even if you not are a horse lover. According to the tour guide, over one thousand horses are stabled there. Secretariat (1973) still hold the record.; 11/16/17, 8:29 PM
Sprezzatura said...: OM,

I do know how: a/href and such.

I just like to make sure that you cons don't feel like I'm conning you into a Fake News link, e.g. the NYT. [Yes, I do get that many of you can see the link via hovering the href. But, I like to be fully transparent.]; 11/16/17, 8:32 PM
Hagar said...: The Republicans, it will be remembered, passed on Clinton's behavior and based their impeachment on his having committed perjury in an attempt to obstruct justice and deny Paula Jones her day in court.; 11/16/17, 8:40 PM
Original Mike said...: OK, but no way I'm cutting and pasting that. Not that I expect you'll lose any sleep over it.; 11/16/17, 8:41 PM
Michael K said...: I am looking forward to seeing, and maybe meeting, Steve Bannon who is talking this weekend in Tucson.\

It should be interesting.; 11/16/17, 8:43 PM
Sprezzatura said...: OM,

Use Chrome. All you do is highlight and right click: you get an option to go to the link. A new window is opened that goes to the link. Ez-Pz.

Or, I'll tell you that it's an image of a reasturant in Seattle that also has bike stuff on the ceiling, but it also has all sorts of upside down stuff on the ceiling (e.g. a fully set table), and the place is vibrant. IOW, it's much cooler than the Madtown pic. IMHO.; 11/16/17, 8:48 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Technically, it opens a new tab. Not window.; 11/16/17, 8:49 PM
Original Mike said...: PB

I read on an iPad, I have to use my finger and it's a struggle to get it to behave. I really have to be motivated before I'll cut and paste a link.; 11/16/17, 8:52 PM
Bill, Republic of Texas said...: Unknown Vance,

Why would you expect a blog that is run by a woman who has no sense of smell or taste to have much to do with food.; 11/16/17, 8:52 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Doc Mike,

I have a question for a reader such as yourself, if you decided to buy a signed book (X-mas) for a brother-in-law's father, would you go with the Cheney or the Rice (the good one, i.e. Condi) option?

FTR, I already made the call (Condi), but I'm not sure that's what a con would have wanted.; 11/16/17, 8:53 PM
Bill, Republic of Texas said...: PB's link is ok. It would be much better in higher resolution. But it does look like a fun restaurant.; 11/16/17, 8:55 PM
Saint Croix said...: Althouse readers can download a free copy of my new novel here. And kudos to whoever gave me a 5 star review!

It's a murder mystery set in Washington D.C. It's called Death of a Non-Person. Hope you enjoy, I had a lot of fun writing it.; 11/16/17, 8:57 PM
Sprezzatura said...: OK OM,

Let's see if I'm rusty:

Did I F-up?; 11/16/17, 8:58 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Nailed it.

Better to be lucky than smart.; 11/16/17, 8:58 PM
Original Mike said...: Good work. Thanks.; 11/16/17, 9:00 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: @Michael K,

If you talk to Bannon, tell him that several unheralded, deplorable commentators at Althouse are buying what he's selling.; 11/16/17, 9:15 PM
Mike Sylwester said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/16/17, 9:17 PM
Mike Sylwester said...: On Tuesday Consortium News published an article by Robert Parry titled "America's Righteous Russia-gate Censorship". Excerpts follow:

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... n the late 1970s and the early 1980s ... – even as the old Cold War was heating up around the election of Ronald Reagan – there were prominent mainstream journalists who looked askance at the excessive demonization of the Soviet Union ....

Today, however, I cannot think of a single prominent figure in the mainstream news media who questions any claim – no matter how unlikely or absurd – that vilifies Russian President Vladimir Putin and his country. It is all Russia-bashing all the time.

And, behind this disturbing anti-Russian uniformity are increasing assaults against independent and dissident journalists and news outlets outside the mainstream. ...

... the expanding American censorship is driven by U.S. government agencies, such as the Justice Department’s demand that the Russian news outlet, RT, register under the restrictive Foreign Agent Registration Act ... that could make it impossible for RT to continue to function in the United States. ....

All right-thinking Americans are to get only a steady diet of how righteous the U.S. government and its allies always are. Anything else is “propaganda.” ....

An early shot in this war against dissenting information was fired last Thanksgiving Day when the Post published a front-page article citing an anonymous group called PropOrNot smearing 200 Internet news sites for allegedly disseminating Russian propaganda. The list included some of the most important sources of independent journalism ...

Congress last December approved $160 million for think tanks and other non-governmental organizations to combat Russian propaganda. Soon, reports and studies were flying off the shelves detecting a Russian behind every article, tweet and posting that didn’t toe the State Department’s line. ...

The New York Times and other leading news organizations have even cheered plans for Google, Facebook and other technology companies to deploy algorithms that can hunt down, marginalize or eliminate information that establishment media deems “fake” or “propaganda.” ....

Perhaps most troubling to me about these developments is the silence of many civil liberties advocates, liberal politicians and defenders of press freedom who might have been counted on in earlier days to object to this censorship and blackballing. ...

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https://consortiumnews.com/2017/11/14/americas-righteous-russia-gate-censorship/; 11/16/17, 9:19 PM
Molly said...: I want to put two things out here about sexual harassment/political scandals.

1. I don't believe that I have ever had a co-worker who was "Playboy material". A lot of the public attention is in places (Hollywood, theatre, television news, certainly) where physical attractiveness is a big employability asset. So what about politics? Are attractive women drawn to politics (in the old days for example congressional wife Rita Jenrette appeared in Playboy)?But my real question in this speculation is this: Do men assume that women who are in this far end of the attractiveness spectrum are women who are more willing to respond to sexual aggressiveness?

2. Look at this comprehensive list of congressional sex scandals http://supreme.findlaw.com/legal-commentary/chronology-of-congressional-sex-scandals.html (and there is a similar list at wikipedia). A few things jump out at me:

a. There are lot more Rs than Ds.

b. There are a quite a few categories of "scandal" here: consensual but extra marital (heterosexual) sex; consensual but extra marital (heterosexual or homosexual) sex with prostitutes; consensual but extra marital (homosexual) sex; sex or requests for sex from a subordinate; sex or requests for sex from a minor; requests for sex that pushed into the "rape" zone, or that used knock-out drugs; any kind of sexual encounters that used government funds.

c. The party hierarchy of Rs seems to be a lot more disapproving of all of these categories -- sometimes pushing for a congressional action that expresses disapproval, or sometimes calling for resignation, or sometimes seeking a primary challenger.

d. The voters in R districts seem to be a lot more disapproving of all of these categories -- often voting out incumbents who refused to resign or step aside.; 11/16/17, 9:19 PM
Big Mike said...: @Michael K, ask Bannon when he's going to learn how to properly vet a candidate. Also remind him that if he loses the senate seat in Ala-effing-bama then he has half the brains of piss-ant.; 11/16/17, 9:24 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Mik-fecta.; 11/16/17, 9:25 PM
narciso said...: The problem with parry is he dodnt think the soviet's were all that bad, back in their last expansion franchise, hence he bought the Christi institutes snake oil.; 11/16/17, 9:29 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: Yeah, Big Mike, Luther Strange woulda sidestepped some of these problems.; 11/16/17, 9:35 PM
Richard Dillman said...: Madison has lots of interesting, quaint cafes that are enjoyable to visit. I spend quite a bit of time there visiting relatives. One relative is enamored with the cat cafe, where cats can share your coffee, food, or whatever. However, I don't know how some cafes stay in business, when many customers just hang out for hours, sometimes reading, writing, or studying.

A new cat cafe just opened in the uptown section of Minneapolis. Good luck with that. My daughter visited an owl cafe in Japan, where
customers ate with many chained owls of many types.

In Madison, many coffee houses also serve wine and beer; they often seem like bars that serve coffee. Its an interesting combination.
I've witnessed a cafe by the zoo change from coffee/tea restaurant to a coffee, tea, beer, wine and Bloody Mary restaurant, with a very different vibe.; 11/16/17, 9:40 PM
Original Mike said...: Blogger Big Mike said..."@Michael K, ask Bannon when he's going to learn how to properly vet a candidate. Also remind him that if he loses the senate seat in Ala-effing-bama then he has half the brains of piss-ant."

This Mike would like to associate himself with this remark.; 11/16/17, 9:42 PM
bgates said...: Look at this comprehensive list of congressional sex scandals http://supreme.findlaw.com/legal-commentary/chronology-of-congressional-sex-scandals.html (and there is a similar list at wikipedia). A few things jump out at me:

a. There are lot more Rs than Ds.

There are 20 Democrats and 16 Republicans on the list at findlaw.; 11/16/17, 9:44 PM
chickelit said...: Those look like old trophy bikes with CrMo frames, Campy parts, Cinelli stems, and Brooks saddles. Ask Meade to translate.; 11/16/17, 9:46 PM
Inga...Allie Oop said...: Tell Bannon to put some ice on his nose.; 11/16/17, 9:47 PM
narciso said...: They pulled this carp on Herman cain five years ago, alred was the ringleader back then as well.; 11/16/17, 9:48 PM
Howard said...: Molly: I shouldn't say this because first rule of fight club, but it is a well known fact that hot chicks have low self esteem. Sixes and sevens are very tough to con.; 11/16/17, 9:48 PM
narciso said...: They tie it throw clan allusions at mcdaniel, created this many scandal with Joe millers security detail, made all too much of o'donnells profession of faith; 11/16/17, 9:51 PM
narciso said...: When the party is willing to throw a race they do this and mire, but Moore is a honey Madge he is not going to step down.; 11/16/17, 9:55 PM
narciso said...: I speak of the Jones memo, that Wallace and Schmidt lipsynched
Like million vanilla, conceding the election to Obama.; 11/16/17, 9:59 PM
Michael McNeil said...: Ritmo is so cute earnestly posting all those “links,” that few will ever follow ’cause it’s far too much trouble — to have to highlight copy, open a new tab, then paste the http link into its address line — just for one of his links. Moreover, neither I nor (more than a very few) others are going to follow Ritmo’s browser recommendations, just so we can quickly follow links of his.

And for what is he throwing roadblocks in everyone’s way? To “protect” Althouse readers from the danger of following malicious web links? That’s nuts. Anybody who’s worried about this issue can either (1) hover one’s mouse over the link on a laptop to see where the link goes displayed; or (2) on smart phone such as an iPhone, simply hold your finger down on the link for a second or two, and a menu will pop up showing the actual link about to be followed — along with providing the option to follow it or not. I’m confident that Android has an analogous mechanism.; 11/16/17, 10:07 PM
Freeman Hunt said...: Listened to something in which the writer mistakenly, and to humorous effect, used melee when the word intended was melenge.; 11/16/17, 10:11 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Can we get to five Mikes in the thread?

[I shoulda had one of those as a puppet.]; 11/16/17, 10:17 PM
Ignorance is Bliss said...: anti-de Sitter space said...

...I like to be fully transparent.

You are.; 11/16/17, 10:18 PM
narciso said...: Lol, it doesn't nearly mean the same thing; 11/16/17, 10:31 PM
I Have Misplaced My Pants said...: Listened to something in which the writer mistakenly, and to humorous effect, used melee when the word intended was melenge.

Mr. Pants regularly says 'palatable' when he means 'palpable' and it's so adorable that I can't bring myself to correct him.; 11/16/17, 10:43 PM
Ken B said...: No Hagar. They impeached him for his proven, impeachable crime. The constitution sets standards. Getting head doesn’t meet the standard. Lots of his behavior was from before his election, and that doesn’t meet the standard. Perjury does.; 11/16/17, 11:02 PM
Ken B said...: No bgates. You have to count guilty Ds as Rs.; 11/16/17, 11:05 PM
bgates said...: Mr. Pants regularly says 'palatable' when he means 'palpable'

I knew someone once who would accuse me of being condescending - but pronounce it as "condense-ending".

I left it alone.; 11/17/17, 12:06 AM
Laslo Spatula said...: "...but it is a well known fact that hot chicks have low self esteem...."

Proof of a Divine Creator, that.

I am Laslo.; 11/17/17, 12:15 AM
urbane legend said...: narciso said...
They pulled this carp on Herman cain five years ago, alred was the ringleader back then as well.

That's why all of it smells fishy.; 11/17/17, 4:30 AM
Anonymous said...: Prof:

Re Franken, Moore, DJT, etc. here is my new prediction for 2020!

POTUS: Warren or Gillibrand
VPOTUS: Gillibrand or Kamala Harris or Amy Klobuchar or Booker

Speaker in 2018: Pelosi
Majority Leader: Schumer

Cheers!; 11/17/17, 5:28 AM
Jaq said...: PA school system wants to ban the word "terrorist"

Saw this in a local paper on my road trip, someone should send the link to Insty, I have no email right now.; 11/17/17, 6:12 AM
Beloved Commenter AReasonableMan said...: Interesting back story to the current problems in Hollywood.

Why Is "Chad" a Joke Name?; 11/17/17, 6:42 AM
rehajm said...: New Tesla Roadster unveiled

So I'm not a greenie or an Elon fanboi, and I still think they're vulnerable to implosion from capital starvation...but looking at this thing from a car person perspective it is jaw-dropping impressive. Disruptive is the buzz word and it fits.; 11/17/17, 6:49 AM
Robert Cook said...: Will Cate said:

Got new bike. Giant Sedona.

Here's mine.

I got it a year and a half ago, after not having ridden a bike for 35 years. It's a sturdy, strong bike, but a bit heavy. I want to get a Brompton eventually.; 11/17/17, 6:53 AM
rehajm said...: So this is a bike thread? Fine. Mine.; 11/17/17, 7:17 AM
SeanF said...: Saint Croix: Althouse readers can download a free copy of my new novel here. And kudos to whoever gave me a 5 star review!

Saint Croix, just so you know, "kudos" doesn't mean the same thing as "thanks". Makes you sound kind of conceited to give kudos to someone for complimenting you. :); 11/17/17, 8:18 AM
stlcdr said...: “a. There are lot more Rs than Ds.

There are 20 Democrats and 16 Republicans on the list at findlaw”

At this point, it isn’t so much that there’s a problem, it’s whether it’s repubs or dems.

You can put a republican and a Democrat in a sinking dinghy, and they’d continue to fight over who’s fault it is. Or, as is a lot of the news today, a little girl loses a balloon and it’s evidence that the republicans are nazis and the democrats are fascist.; 11/17/17, 8:28 AM
MadisonMan said...: So how come this blog never really covers food much?

Because its owner can't taste things?; 11/17/17, 9:09 AM
Saint Croix said...: no, kudos for their excellent taste!; 11/17/17, 9:14 AM
Michael K said...: Blogger Big Mike said..."@Michael K, ask Bannon when he's going to learn how to properly vet a candidate. Also remind him that if he loses the senate seat in Ala-effing-bama then he has half the brains of piss-ant."

Let's see if he wins, as I expect. Bannon probably relied on all the honest sources in Alabama that had vetted Moore for 25 years as he was the most controversial political figure in the state. The liars only appeared once the primary was over and the dates for ballot change was gone.

WaPoo did his with George Allen.; 11/17/17, 10:55 AM
Meade said...: @Will Cate: kudos on getting new bike.; 11/17/17, 3:00 PM