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So I have decided why I am lukewarm on the mobile format change. I don't like only reading the beginning sentence of your post. Althouse is best in longform and it's hard to tell what a post is about in this format. I guess I am outing myself as one of your regulars who doesn't read every post....
I don’t like it either, but some people find the blog unreadable on their phone otherwise.
Do you mostly read by phone?
The economy has taken off around Atlanta. The traffic has doubled but still moves well.Tractor trailer trucks are much more going everywhere. And for the first time in 12 years there are big new commercial wharehouses and shopping centers going up everywhere.
The next shoe to drop may be the new Amazon Regional Center. But everybody is already working or out shopping.
Beware that most drivers are texting and cell phoning messages continually as they drive with eyes off the road. Hopefully most can double task.
Greetings to all.
The new full-length Laslo Films film is up on YouTube: Laslo Films presents "Jeremiah's Woods"
The basic story: A man goes into the woods to bury his dog. But the woods belong to someone else.
We had the premiere at the Varsity Theatre in Seattle a few weeks ago -- had a great response, including from people who didn't know anyone associated with the makers.
Something interesting I like about the film beyond the basics: there is a character, Holly, that visits the lead character Tucker.
Holly occasionally speaks of the Bible and Bible passages; it may be inferred that she is, quite possibly, a Christian.
She is sensible, and a bit of an outsider in a liberal city. She cares about people, and sees the good in things despite knowing that there is evil in the world.
As such, she can reasonably be considered as a Christian in a horror-comedy who is not stereotyped as a buffoon, racist, venal, or a hypocrite (how many Christians seem to be characterized in film today).
In a meta way it is a comment on how horror movies generally exist in a world that accepts evil and the supernatural, but whose viewers would recoil from any expression of real belief.
While not a major part of the story, I enjoyed adding a layer that possibly goes against some people's grain. In a film that may be considered as in questionable taste. Laslo Films, after all.
The movie also features a Laslo song of greasy grandeur: "I Grow My Tree In You (Love Theme from 'Jeremiah's Woods')". It is a shame this was released too late to get the Best Song Oscar this year that it obviously deserves.
For those that are interested, I hope you like it.
I am Laslo.
Do you mostly read by phone?
About fifty-fifty.
Beware that most drivers are texting and cell phoning messages continually as they drive with eyes off the road. Hopefully most can double task.
They can't.
I read on the phone if I have a couple of minutes to burn in the morning while my kids aren't hanging on me. Or in the evening when all the kids are in bed. But I prefer the PC.
Somewhere last year i complained about the magazine cover blacklist/blackout of covers with Melania and Ivanka Trump.
It may sound like a silly thing to be disturbed by, but OmyGosh it is so total and continues. We get weekly Princess whoever and warmed-over tv star whoever, but No First Lady. This is a vile enforcement by those who sneer at the audience.
I mean, I grew up when Jackie Kennedy was on most every cover very month for years. It is an amErica magazine rack tradition! Even Ladybird and certainly the Bush Flotuses graced our racks regularly. hands down, maybe except for Jackie, Michelle surely busted every Flotus covers record.
It is not natural for us to not get to appreciate and enjoy the images of our presidents' wives. They beCome a distillation of Americana, and seeing their images on covers in the stores is a commonspace normalcy that anchors, joins us, reminds us of the Good we are sharing. I imagine the practice has made lots of sure money over the years, so it is amazing how they don't relent. And surely this smothers something in our tradition.
What powerful networks are working overtime to subdue the Natural Flow of the American body politic and the national spirit?
I shudder sometimes at the world gone more strange.
Success - earlier today, I placed a few items in my Amazon basket, but didn't get around to doing the final click. The stars aligned a few minutes ago - Althouse wins!
Saw the new mobile format for first time today - don't like it. As a baby boomer the same age as Althouse, I accept/deal with change when necessary but would really like to keep it to a minimum.
Just wanted to mention I really enjoyed the comment thread earlier today for TKAM. It was very entertaining. I was reading it mostly on my phone, from which I usually find it difficult to comment, so I just kept reading and scrolling. Didn't have much I could have added anyway, at least not on TKAM, since I have never read it, only seen the movie. However, it did prompt me to have a nice discussion with my wife about the books we read in high school English back in the mid-60s. I made a list of all the ones we could remember and we talked about them. It was a great list and I am so thankful to have gone to a high school with such a good English program and which exposed me to great literature.
British tabloids like this one who was singed by passing on rumors
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5450179/Hope-Hicks-rise-fall-Washington-heads-home.html
If his earlier wife divorced him, it want an affair
Instead of "Who will watch the watchers?" we now have "Who will leak on the leakers?"
To the NYT.
By two unidentified staffers (almost certainly of the minority party) of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Senate Intelligence Leaders Say House G.O.P. Leaked a Senator’s Texts
By NICHOLAS FANDOS MARCH 1, 2018
"WASHINGTON — The Senate Intelligence Committee has concluded that Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee were behind the leak of private text messages between the Senate panel’s top Democrat and a Russian-connected lawyer, according to two congressional officials briefed on the matter..."
Not content with just reporting this earth-shattering news, Nicolas Fandos goes on to provide a blatantly false spin on the recent Memogate drama. In a supposedly objective NYT news article.
Why am I not surprised?
"...The House committee spent much of the last month locked in a bitter dispute over the secret Republican memorandum, which accused top F.B.I. and Justice Department officials of abusing their powers to spy on one of Mr. Trump’s former campaign advisers. Republicans released the document over the objections of the Justice Department and the F.B.I., which warned in a rare public statement that it was dangerously misleading." [1]
[1] The Justice Department and FBI warnings were an attempt to cover their respective asses BEFORE THE MEMO WAS VETTED by "representatives from the FBI, Justice Department, National Security Agency and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence".
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/371504-report-fbi-intelligence-agencies-are-vetting-nunes-memo
"...Democrats called the document reckless and said it was merely a political tool to tarnish the agencies investigating Mr. Trump’s potential ties to Russia. They eventually released their own memo, drawn from the same underlying material, rebutting it." [2]
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/us/politics/senate-intelligence-nunes-leaks.html?
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[2] Andrew McCarthy's objective, detailed analysis showed that The Democrat's response memo not only failed to rebut the Nunnes memo but that it was an embarrassment to Schiff.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/02/schiff-memo-russia-investigation-harms-democrats-more-than-helps-them/
I used to revere the NYT, but that was before it became the second coming of Pravda.
I read that thread also. I'm old. I've lived long enough to see posterity. It doesn't look like TKAM is going to make the cut. Harper Lee is going to go the way of Booth Tarkington. I was heartened to read, however, that there's someone in earth besides myself who still thinks A Tree Grows In Brooklyn is a great book. Maybe Betty Smith will make the cut, but probably not. GWTW, like it or not, will be an enduring artifact like Uncle Tom's Cabin. .......Does anyone still read Eric Ambler novels? He wrote better spy stories than John LeCarre, but I don't think spy stories get handed down from generation to generation. Welcome to oblivion Eric. .
I was pleasantly surprised to see posterity arrive. I was expecting to see the world end in a nuclear holocaust. That's what all the smart people were telling me was going to happen. They're on to global warming now, but nuclear holocaust used to be a big thing.
This explains my theory that the dossier was a revenge play by deripasha who was stiffed by manafort, the agitate is about the revelation that one of his intermediaries Mr waldman was one of the sources fed to steele
According to paul Perry, among the judges that bought the dossier a acceptable was Conway a Reagan appointee and dearie a bush sr one, the nature of the evidence has not been revealed.
The Lami Safari is a less expensive fountain pen, something of a work horse. No tears if lost.
So my naive understanding of journalism is that in Europe the papers are associated with one political party or another, while in America the papers tried to be objective- perhaps because the experience of WW2, even though the press leaned left. Over time the lean became more pronounced - until Trump. During the Trump campaign the press thought he was sure to lose and so they let the mask slip.
Then the SOB actually won!
Now they are all in , but hope that enough deplorables still don’t get it.
Spy stories - some of the better forgotten ones, and worth resurrecting, those of John Buchan - Greenmantle, the 39 Steps, etc.
Buchan was a very interesting fellow in his own right, well in with the "deep state" of his day, was a player in the great games of the British Empire and knew everyone, from press lords to prime ministers, to Hilaire Belloc, Robert Graves, etc.
Oh, he was also Governor-General of Canada.
One of those fellows who knew how things really did go down.
If we want a bike track in our back yard like Althouse, will Meade come to Nebraska and build one?
So my hometown newspaper, Pittsburgh Tribune Review, published an online article yesterday regarding Dick's Sporing Goods decision to stop to selling AR-15s and other evil black rifles. Dick's is based just outside of Pittsburgh.
It was at the top of their page, prominently displayed, with this quote from the second generation CEO: "We feel now is the time to have meaningful discussion about common-sense reform with the intent of finding a solution."
Then the comments started coming in. The article then flat-out disappeared. Gone, vanished.
Just guessing someone from Dick's made a phone call regarding advertising $$$. Gutless on several fronts.
Re: Dicks Sporting Goods
It was probably the e-mail I sent them notifying them that I would no longer be a customer.
Also, isn't it funny how the 2nd generation screws up all that the 1st gen worked so hard to build?
Is it true that all anybody had to do to put cheap Chinese steel into the US was to import it through Mexico or Canada where it would then ride in on NAFTA.
"Success - earlier today, I placed a few items in my Amazon basket, but didn't get around to doing the final click. The stars aligned a few minutes ago - Althouse wins!"
Thanks for trying, but it won't work when you do it that way. You have to go in via one of my links, then put things in the basket AND finish the transaction before clicking away. The idea has to be that I drove commerce to them, not simply that you are thinking charitably of me as you finish a transaction you were already doing.
"The Lami Safari is a less expensive fountain pen, something of a work horse. No tears if lost."
I care a lot about getting a gold nib, for good feeling and a flexible line, so that justifiably raises the price. The extra-fine nib on this new pen (which I load with fountain India ink) is really good for drawing because you can get a sensitive line with varying thickness by applying different degrees of pressure. That's nice in handwriting too, if you're at all interested in how it looks (and how it feels).
And if you buy a pen with the idea that it's okay to lose it, you're more likely to lose it. People spend much much more money on disposable pens. I don't know how many disposable pens I have lying around the house, and don't you always want to by a dozen more, so they will be everywhere whenever you're looking for one?
"Dick's Sporing"
You're making Dick's sound even dirtier than usual.
AA said: "You're making Dick's sound even dirtier than usual."
Ha ha. My life is a typo.
Buchan's books are available for free from the Gutenberg Project. Eric Ambler's, unfortunately, are not.
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Per the Supreme Court the Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms - arms being things you use to kill humans inwars. There is no right to hunt. So arguments that some semiautomatic rifles are “weapons of war “ that are no use for hunting miss the point.
Keeping and bearing arms ought to include whatever the standard infantryman’s weapon of the time is - though SCOTUS has not yet come to that point.
Of course for some people “common sense gun control” means not treating Second Amendment rights as real constitutional rights. To the extent that those folks disagree with SCOTUS about the individual nature of the right,they should consider what “common sense abortion control” would look like to the folks who believe Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey were wrongly decided.
I personally support a constitutional amendment that says “The Second Amendment to this Constitution shall not be applied to the States”. But until then, let’s take these rights seriously.
I suppose this comment is a little late, but I do prefer the new format on my phone. It was always hard to get the old format sized so I could read it.
I mostly read from a laptop, but sometimes use my phone. I much prefer the old format to the new phone format.
Maybe this would be a good topic for a poll.
The Germans definitely have a word for that film. Licking around the hole of a pink donut. ....
The new mobile format is fine, particularly since I have no clear recollection of what the former mobile format was-- I read there all the time (i.e. commuting to and from work) but the format details themselves, eh. It's a pity that the 'reply to a particular comment' feature doesn't happen here (although I haven't tried it on the mobile so perhaps it doesn't actually work there, either).
A Coffin for Dimitrios...
I think authors' posterity might be better served with the expiration of copyright. Books out of print have no second life unless a digital one.
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