Althouse: At the Late Night Cafe...

April 10, 2018

At the Late Night Cafe...

... you can talk all night.

49 comments:

chickelit said...: Robert Cook, if you’re reading here, may I suggest you go see The Breeders when they come to your town. I saw them in Santa Ana last Saturday - they were promoting their new album.

Great show!; 4/10/18, 9:08 PM
madAsHell said...: I dunno.

I'm buying ammo.; 4/10/18, 9:16 PM
FleetUSA said...: 2 nites in a row without a classy photo to trigger comments. Get with it, Professor.; 4/10/18, 9:20 PM
chickelit said...: Maybe she figures that giving us that cigar photo was ammo enough for a month.; 4/10/18, 9:22 PM
Now I Know! said...: Interesting to see Republicans today at the Facebook hearing creating the environment for more regulations of corporations that need to be reigned in.; 4/10/18, 9:24 PM
Now I Know! said...: If corporations can’t do the right thing (environment, workers safety and rights, protecting consumers, etc.) then Washington needs to step up and be the counterweight to corporate greed. Thank you to Republicans today who showed they get that and are willing to call corporate leaders on to the carpet when they misbehave.; 4/10/18, 9:30 PM
narciso said...: Odd how they didn't have to do this five years ago.; 4/10/18, 9:35 PM
William said...: From my understanding, the Tory Party in England was originally founded to support the Monarch. The BBC are emphaticalically not Tories. Some of them think Labor has sold out. And yet the BBC continues to present programs that are supportive of aristocracy and the Monarchy, like The Crown. Victoria, and Downton Abbey. How so?.......I've pondered this difficult and paradoxical question for some time, and I believe I've hit on the answer. There has, over time, evolved a harmonic convergence between the BBC and the Monarchy. They are both outdated institutions supported by the public weal whose sole purpose is to recite poliitically correct platitudes in posh accents and to be superior to us.......God help me, I enjoy these shows, but they're presented in the BBC's enlightened self interest.; 4/10/18, 9:38 PM
Chuck said...: I am still thinking about Scott Adams' Periscope comment; "I no longer care about the fucking law."; 4/10/18, 9:38 PM
YoungHegelian said...: @NIK,

The Republicans would be more than happy to let corporations "do the wrong thing".

I think, however, that Republicans are waking up to a new phenomenon under the sun: corporations that target them. And that presents a quandry -- ideologically, they support laissez-faire, but at some level self-preservation kicks in.

They feel betrayed. It's like having a union that pisses in the face of the Democrats (which, actually, the Teamsters used to do quite often...)!; 4/10/18, 9:41 PM
mccullough said...: lol. Facebook like all big companies pays lobbying firms, who just so happen to employ spouses and children of Congress members and former Congress members themselves, who take care of this stuff. Also Facebook directly employs a lot of Washington insiders who worked for previous administrations.

It’s all a game. This is how Crony capitalism works. The GOP and Dems are both in on it. Comey will probably become general counsel of Facebook just like he became general counsel of Lockheed Martin after they got “in trouble” in 2006. Comey takes McCain and Graham and some Dem senators to dinner and smooths things over. Comey gets $6 million a year to be “general counsel” and he disburses the funds to various chosen lobbying firms. Then he goes back to “public service” as head of the FBI after he’s made $30 million as a bag man.

Both parties are scum.; 4/10/18, 9:43 PM
mccullough said...: Mueller was churning out $10 million “internal investigation” reports for the NFL exonerating that scum organization for looking the other way while players beat the shit out of their girlfriends, fiancées, wives, baby mommas, and women in bars.

That’s Homest Bob Mueller. Fucking scum bag; 4/10/18, 9:47 PM
David Begley said...: Apple nailed for $500 million. More coming on Friday. Patent infringement.; 4/10/18, 9:48 PM
narciso said...: And letting the anthrax mailer, get away,letting whitey bulger get away with murder.; 4/10/18, 10:04 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: https://disqus.com/by/CincyGal/

OMG isn't she wonderfully lovely!; 4/10/18, 10:18 PM
the 4chan Guy who reads Althouse said...: I was reading some shit about the movie 'Chappaquiddick' and it got me to thinking how shit goes sideways in life, but if it didn't go sideways and it just went straight it could be even worse.

Like, Chappaquiddick sucked for Mary Jo. You're thinking you're hanging out with a rich guy who is going to be President of the United States and shit, life's cool, and then you're upside-down in the water and the fucker takes off. So you're there in the water, it's probably all dark and cold and shit, and you're thinking help's on it's way, it'll be here anytime now, but then you realize that Ted Kennedy is a dick and you're fucked.

And Ted, he doesn't get to be President now. Which was probably a good thing for America, really, because a drunk-ass alcoholic President could've fucked all kinds of shit up. Like, he could've woken up from a three-day gin-binge and his aides would have to tell him that he nuked Cuba, because he doesn't remember any of it. Because shit happens when you're black-out drunk: we've all been there, that's probably how most people get herpes and shit.

But Ted was probably bummed by it, even though he didn't have to, like, serve any prison time. And you just know in prison there would've been a stone-cold Lifer who would do anything to be The Guy Who Fucked a Kennedy In The Ass and Made Him His Bitch. Because what are you gonna do, sentence him to life in prison with no parole again? Stone-cold Lifer don't give no fuck, and he'd probably get a fucking awesome epic prison tattoo for that shit.

And there were probably a dozen dead-eyed loner dudes across the country just polishing their guns and xeroxing their manifestos, waiting for Teddy to become President so that they could Step Up and Go Big. Because in the late Sixties it was all Kennedys and Charlie Manson, basically: Teddy was, like, in the on-deck circle of Dark Crazy Seventies America.

So Chappaquiddick kept Teddy from being an assassinated President, and Dark Crazy Seventies America went on to having Manson-chick Squeaky Fromme shooting Gerald Ford, instead. Which is some Dark Crazy Seventies shit there, but maybe not as Dark Crazy Seventies as Manson-victim Sharon Tate's widower husband going on to bang thirteen-year-old chicks in the ass in Hollywood.

And all this shit happened before there was even any internet, people had to read about it in newspapers and black-and-white TVs and shit. Like, you could have had the funniest thing to say about all of it, but then had no way for getting a lot of people to hear it. Because what isn't funny about a chick so fucked up that she carved a swastika into her own forehead? I mean, that's what 4chan is made for.

I post my shit here.; 4/10/18, 10:32 PM
mockturtle said...: Now I Know says: Interesting to see Republicans today at the Facebook hearing creating the environment for more regulations of corporations that need to be reigned in.

They were practically salivating at the prospect. Except for John Kennedy, R-LA, who said he'd rather see FB regulate itself and revise their user agreement ["It sucks", Kennedy opined] to make it clearer.; 4/10/18, 11:12 PM
mockturtle said...: 4Chan, etc: You're right! I've never thought of it before but Mary Jo Kopechne's death may have saved us from national disaster. She should receive some kind of posthumous honor, don't you think? If we celebrate MLK Day, we should likewise celebrate MJK Day.; 4/10/18, 11:21 PM
Michael K said...: Blogger Now I Know! said...
Interesting to see Republicans today at the Facebook hearing creating the environment for more regulations of corporations that need to be reigned in.

Once written... You have seen the penultimate chapter of the end of Facebook.

This was always a scam.; 4/10/18, 11:25 PM
eddie willers said...: Apple nailed for $500 million.

They'll pay it out of petty cash.; 4/10/18, 11:29 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Lots of things may be summed when considering those too intelligent to foreverlly, like Scalia, consider the Devil a mere child.

Satan, but a childish fantasy.

If one knows they are much, or just a little, WHO'S COUNTING LOL, as equal as anyone intelligent Scalia-wise then one can believe many, many more things too.

Me: ?

As before, I still say Nino Knows.

Smells Satan too.

Nino knows.; 4/10/18, 11:47 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Being born in it, I can only assume.

But I feel, don't know, if you Z were to walk into any Christian denomination that believe's in Jesus Christ as our savior, you could do yourself some good.

Nobody would look down on you.

The existence of the structures are not for the men and women who paid for it. Really. Lot of charity in the church.

Once the gays showed the Old Testament was evil then a bunch of kids got raped. By gays.

But gays have and are and will rape, again, and the Catholic church has had to adjust itself, after 1900 years, and will monitor the fags who rape children.

You are absolutely correct to murder-hate child rapers.

I have to copy and paste this for hardin at ALthouse; 4/11/18, 12:10 AM
Guildofcannonballs said...: THe great question is:

How could straights not fear the queers with all that wealth and power?

Indonctrination*.

Taking down, in part, the Catholic Church is one Hell of an accomplishment, parade all, every single last ounce, of that pride you got.

*You spell it how I want, capiche?; 4/11/18, 12:14 AM
Browndog said...: I remember when open threads were more inquisical, informative, musical, literary..and a tad less satanic.; 4/11/18, 12:22 AM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Sorry.

It was evil, I labeled it "gay" and "fag" and I was/am wrong.

Evil is evil.

I was wrong to divisely act as Satan's henchmen.

I am gay, I just don't desire bad things as sexually defined as whatever we consider "gay" to be.

Thank God I ain't appogizing to the Blacks why I am am Blacker than them, again.; 4/11/18, 12:39 AM
Gahrie said...: I am still thinking about Scott Adams' Periscope comment; "I no longer care about the fucking law."

Me too...I'm scared he's going Democrat.; 4/11/18, 12:41 AM
Guildofcannonballs said...: We all, we, us, we see how evil operates, but just let it keep doing it.

Maybe the reasons why involve me being very, very wise to buy life insurance.

I don't get it.; 4/11/18, 12:43 AM
Guildofcannonballs said...: I do not believe, you I assume unless you can destroy me for your fun and entertainment life-long, human eternity, gay is bad.

I do believe homosexuals killing themselves through disease and euphemism is horrible and ought be stopped.

I believe a less un-homophobic society would have looked upon Prohibition and the mobs and Gay today and how horrible these people's life's are and turn toward God.

Who knows, maybe as Jew Freud said it's all projection.; 4/11/18, 12:49 AM
grackle said...: I just viewed a Scott Adams video. I try one every once in awhile. Too often he beats around the bush way too much and I turn him off after a few minutes of frustration. Adams has some useful concepts with which to analyze the Trump Phenomenon but has some blind spots. In the video he proclaims that “Fox loves Trump.” And he expresses surprise when he googles the FoxNews site and there’s no news about the recent Chinese trade concessions.

No, Scott, Fox doesn’t love Trump. Fox has to pick its shots and pretend to be unbiased or lose its strongest demographic. Fox does this with its opinion shows – Ingraham and Hannity come to mind.

Straight news is a different story. Take the Special Report. It’s a rare panel that includes someone capable of an unbiased analyzation of Trump news. Mollie Hemingway is the only example that I’ve noticed. The rest are either NeverTrumpers – or – seemingly picked for their incoherence, timidity and tendency to dwell upon irrelevancies.

Shepard Smith didn’t use to bother to hide his contempt for all things Trump. I haven’t bothered watching for quite awhile but I doubt that has changed. In the past he has short-changed pro-Trump news when he HAD to cover it and usually with a caveat near the end. Something like this:

“Sure, Shep, some claim it’s a good sign that North Korea is willing to talk about disarming its nuclear program – BUT – as Senator Blowhard on the Foreign Affairs Committee pointed out, we’ve been down this road before and it has led nowhere.”; 4/11/18, 1:06 AM
Tyrone Slothrop said...: Zuckerberg translates as "sugar mountain". I wonder if Neil Young is getting royalties.; 4/11/18, 1:10 AM
Guildofcannonballs said...: WRONG: snl NOT FUNNY.

RIGHT: "hey, I saw an interview with some cast member complaining the only reason they couldn't be funny is the NBC censors."

RIGHT: "no way, are they that dense?"

RIGHT: "dude, they were never more alive than talking about how they couldn't be funny 'cause they had been sensored and all, on SNL."

RIGHT: "that's hillarious. Not only were they featured cast members on SNL, they were seeking publicity from an interview worth Trump money!"

...; 4/11/18, 1:35 AM
Guildofcannonballs said...: It would be to deny this host her place as a defender of free speech not to test it.

I feel, Catholic and catholic, though.; 4/11/18, 1:55 AM
Bob Loblaw said...: Apple nailed for $500 million.

Given the way Apple has abused the patent system over the years, well, it's difficult to feel bad when the gander gets the sauce.; 4/11/18, 1:58 AM
Guildofcannonballs said...: I've literally spent over a decade hoping to compare, uncute[ly] Ann Margeret in that movie with Martin Landaeu and Daryl Hannah and Jack Lemmon

GRUMPY OLD MEN!!!

But Althouser syil ain't lawwin' me no apt comparisoins.; 4/11/18, 1:59 AM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Zuckerberg translates as

Buckley saying and writing Let Us Talk of Many Things.

Who you think, more influential?

Pope John Paul 2 is a great man even un Catholics I hope agree with the Spirit.; 4/11/18, 2:29 AM
Kevin said...: I am still thinking about Scott Adams' Periscope comment; "I no longer care about the fucking law."

"One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all.” -- Martin Luther King, Letter from a Birmingham Jail

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison." - Henry David Thoreau

"I no longer care about the fucking law." - Scott Adams; 4/11/18, 3:31 AM
Kevin said...: Interesting to see Republicans today at the Facebook hearing creating the environment for more regulations of corporations that need to be reigned in.

Ha! Big corporations LOVE regulation!

It gives them a set of black and white rules to shield them from consumer lawsuits, while allowing them to co-opt the regulatory process to rewrite any rule which really causes them discomfort.

Company starts out small, company gets big, company calls for it's industry to be regulated to keep out small scrappy competitors is as old a story as there is.; 4/11/18, 3:37 AM
rehajm said...: The pay gap is still a myth yet oh so popular with educated women.; 4/11/18, 5:25 AM
Rusty said...: Nuclear deal? What nuclear deal? https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/04/iran_says_they_will_restart_nuclear_program_they_never_halted_if_us_pulls_out_of_nuke_deal.html
Like I said from the beginning.; 4/11/18, 5:54 AM
Tank said...: What Kevin said. Regs are good for big companies, plus big corps are generally leftist.; 4/11/18, 5:58 AM
David Begley said...: Bob L

I’m on the other side of Apple. More coming!; 4/11/18, 6:15 AM
Professional lady said...: I wonder if Mueller et al are trying to goad Trump into firing them so that all hell will break loose while they portray themselves as martyrs.; 4/11/18, 8:29 AM
mockturtle said...: Grackle asserts: No, Scott, Fox doesn’t love Trump. Fox has to pick its shots and pretend to be unbiased or lose its strongest demographic. Fox does this with its opinion shows – Ingraham and Hannity come to mind.

I watch [at least sporadically] Fox Business Network in the morning and the difference between the Varney show [pro Trump] and the Cavuto show [anti Trump] is striking. It's probably smart strategy. Cavuto causes me to turn off the TV altogether.; 4/11/18, 8:32 AM
mockturtle said...: Kevin is so right about large corporations loving regulations. They can afford a team of lawyers to work out the intricacies and loopholes, giving them a big advantage over smaller firms. It's all part of Crony Capitalism and the Deep State.; 4/11/18, 9:29 AM
Chuck said...: Kevin said...
"Interesting to see Republicans today at the Facebook hearing creating the environment for more regulations of corporations that need to be reigned in."

Ha! Big corporations LOVE regulation!

It gives them a set of black and white rules to shield them from consumer lawsuits, while allowing them to co-opt the regulatory process to rewrite any rule which really causes them discomfort.

Company starts out small, company gets big, company calls for it's industry to be regulated to keep out small scrappy competitors is as old a story as there is.

Sad to say; you are thoroughly correct.; 4/11/18, 10:52 AM
virgil xenophon said...: Following on mockturtle's comment, above, large corporations can simply "bill over" the cost of hiring
attnys and accounts to comply with new regulations by adding a few cents or even dollars to each product while to the small businessman such compliance costs may constitute/exceed the entire amount of his yearly contribution to his 401k/HR10.; 4/11/18, 10:56 AM
virgil xenophon said...: **accountants*; 4/11/18, 10:58 AM
Rusty said...: Hell mock. In a lot of cases the corporations write the regulations.; 4/11/18, 4:15 PM
mockturtle said...: Hell mock. In a lot of cases the corporations write the regulations.

Yep, they or their lobbyists.; 4/11/18, 9:18 PM