Althouse: At the Pink Café...

June 3, 2018

At the Pink Café...

... you're on your own.

37 comments:

Birkel said...: first; 6/3/18, 7:41 PM
Curious George said...: Magenta; 6/3/18, 7:57 PM
NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...: Well, looks like James Patterson and Bill Clinton have a new novel out. It's called "The President's Missing". I may have to buy it!

Readers may wonder why the authors decide early on to kill off the first lady, who was a brilliant law student ...

Review here.; 6/3/18, 7:58 PM
Mid-Life Lawyer said...: It's a tiny little one strand web we weave when we never really learn how to deceive.; 6/3/18, 8:04 PM
rehajm said...: ...and violets are purple not blue.; 6/3/18, 8:05 PM
Ann Althouse said...: @mid-life Lawyer Thanks for noticing my favorite thing about the pic and I love your aphorism.; 6/3/18, 8:08 PM
narciso said...: Ah that sounds terrible and derivative of mccarrys better angels, where a liberal president seemingly prevents an apocalyptic attack.; 6/3/18, 8:13 PM
Mid-Life Lawyer said...: My pleasure and thank you, Ann.; 6/3/18, 8:14 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: Warriors up by 13 at half. Oakland readies itself for 3 championship in 4 years.

Hey, even the losers get lucky sometime (Tom Petty lyric).; 6/3/18, 8:21 PM
tcrosse said...: Think pink.; 6/3/18, 8:21 PM
mccullough said...: The Warriors are moving back to San Francisco. That’s where the money and white peoples are.

They’ll change the name to San Francisco. The A’s will move to Portland.; 6/3/18, 8:25 PM
YoungHegelian said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 6/3/18, 8:48 PM
YoungHegelian said...: So, I wuz doing some googling the other day, & discovered to my sur-prize that, when my fellow Alabamians ain't steamrolling the opposition in football, or making the best bar-bee-q, or having sex with our cousins, they can set up a right informative web site on Postmodernism.

Now, whodda thunk it?

(Link Corrected); 6/3/18, 8:52 PM
gilbar said...: President Clinton said, "I don't like all this. I couldn't be elected anything now 'cause I just don't like embarrassing people.

and by 'cause i just don't like embarrassing people, he means
'cause i'm a serial rapist; 6/3/18, 8:53 PM
David Begley said...: 40 out of 50 of the top pop songs on Spotify have explicit lyrics.; 6/3/18, 8:54 PM
Mike Sylwester said...: A writer with the pen-name "Undercover Huber" has published on Twitter an interesting thread about George Papadopolous's guilty plea in the RussiaGate investigation.

It seems that Papadopolous never had any communications about "thousands of e-mails" until he was interviewed by the FBI on January 27, 2017 (seventeen).

Joseph Mifsud and Alexander Downer both deny that anything ever was said about "thousands of e-mails". Papadopoulos himself never told anyone in the Trump campaign about "thousands of e-mails".

Then, after Trump was inaugurated, Papadopolous told the FBI about "thousands of e-mails" and later Papadopolous pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about trivial details.

What a mystery.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1001866516067946498.html; 6/3/18, 8:55 PM
chuck said...: > "The President's Missing"

If they really wanted to sell the book, the heroic president would be Republican. I'd buy that just out of curiosity and wonder that Clinton would write such a thing.; 6/3/18, 8:55 PM
David Begley said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 6/3/18, 9:01 PM
David Begley said...: “Readers may wonder why the authors decide early on to kill off the first lady, who was a brilliant law student “

Could Bill do anything else to humiliate his so-called wife?

And Hillary isn’t brilliant. She wasn’t first in her class and she failed the bar exam.; 6/3/18, 9:05 PM
Darrell said...: and she failed the bar exam

And she failed the D.C. bar exam.; 6/3/18, 9:28 PM
David Begley said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 6/3/18, 9:29 PM
David Begley said...: The NYT review was mostly anti-Trump. And then there’s this, “and why some of her last words were: “Promise me you’ll meet someone else, Jonathan. Promise me.”

Yes, he met someone else and their names are Monica, Kathleen, Ellen, etc. He met them all. No objection by Hillary and she was still alive.

End the charade. The game’s over. Get divorced.; 6/3/18, 9:31 PM
FullMoon said...: NorthOfTheOneOhOne said... [hush][hide comment]

Well, looks like James Patterson and Bill Clinton have a new novel out. It's called "The President's Missing". I may have to buy it!

Readers may wonder why the authors decide early on to kill off the first lady, who was a brilliant law student ...

Review here.

Review makes the book sound kinda Danielle Steeleish and childish

"..some of her last words were: “Promise me you’ll meet someone else, Jonathan. Promise me.” Let’s just call it a setup for the sequel and a dose of creative license. Duncan is also a Special Forces war hero who was waterboarded in Iraq and could have been a baseball star if his injuries hadn’t forced him into politics."; 6/3/18, 9:47 PM
narciso said...: It blended that Olympus is falling opening with Ashley judd, and the American president in a cuisinart.; 6/3/18, 9:57 PM
StephenFearby said...: In other news, via the Internet's tabloid of record:

Daily Mail
2 June 2018, updated 3 June

Smoking cannabis can harm unborn babies who were conceived years after their parents stopped using the drug, startling study suggests

Class B drugs can result in permanent genetic changes in next generation

Parents' cannabis use can make children more likely to use the drug themselves
US scientists say there's growing evidence drug effects can be passed down

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5799165/Smoking-cannabis-harm-unborn-babies.html

Based on:

Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2018 Feb;85:93-101.

High times for cannabis: Epigenetic imprint and its legacy on brain and behavior.

Friedman Brain Institute, Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.

Abstract
Extensive debates continue regarding marijuana (Cannabis spp), the most commonly used illicit substance in many countries worldwide. There has been an exponential increase of cannabis studies over the past two decades but the drug's long-term effects still lack in-depth scientific data. The epigenome is a critical molecular machinery with the capacity to maintain persistent alterations of gene expression and behaviors induced by cannabinoids that have been observed across the individual's lifespan and even into the subsequent generation. Though mechanistic investigations regarding the consequences of developmental cannabis exposure remain sparse, human and animal studies have begun to reveal specific epigenetic disruptions in the brain and the periphery. In this article, we focus attention on long-term disturbances in epigenetic regulation in relation to prenatal, adolescent and parental germline cannabinoid exposure. Expanding knowledge about the protracted molecular memory could help to identify novel targets to develop preventive strategies and treatments for behaviors relevant to neuropsychiatric risks associated with developmental cannabis exposure.

Free full text pdf available in Google Scholar via Researchgate.

(Just Google the study's title in Google Scholar.)

I know a family with a 2 1/2 year-old child now experiencing developmental issues. The father, a long-time pothead, thinks nothing of smoking his weed inside the house.; 6/3/18, 10:05 PM
Sebastian said...: "Smoking cannabis can harm unborn babies" So what? If need be, just refine the prenatal tests and weed out the "harmed" thingies.

Anyway, keep your prog talking points straight: smoking is terrible and should be banned; smoking pot is good and cool.

Likewise, being gay is genetic and can't be changed; sexual identity, by contrast, is subjective, and can be changed.; 6/3/18, 10:15 PM
I Have Misplaced My Pants said...: So funny thing about the Echo.

'Member how Amazon assures everyone that Alexa isn't listening unless you say the wake word?

Couple days ago I said, "Alexa, play some music" as I was starting to make dinner. I usually tell it to play a specific playlist or I use it as a speaker to listen to Spotify or podcasts from my phone. Thought I'd let it surprise me. So she responds, "Here is a playlist you might like. Musica mexicana cristiana on Amazon Music" and starts playing, yes, Mexican Christian music.

I have never listened to anything like that in my house, ever, with Echo or otherwise. Never searched for it online; no one in the family listens to Christian music and no one speaks Spanish.

The day before, though, the housekeeper had been here, and she has a longstanding habit of placing her phone on the kitchen counter next to the Echo and listening to music while she works. She just uses her phone speaker and cranks it up. No, she hasn't learned to use the Echo herself; she won't even use the Bluetooth speaker I gave her for Christmas ("Too confusing Mrs. Pants-I gave it to my daughter!"), let alone learn to use the AI speaker. Husband checked the activity logs in the app and the last time the Echo was woken was before I left the house, and it wasn't woken again until later that evening. The only way it selected Mexican Christian music was if it was listening to the housekeeper's phone playing that kind of music, and the only time that happened was when it was never officially woken up.; 6/3/18, 11:02 PM
Ken B said...: Arrested for dissing Egypt https://ca.news.yahoo.com/lebanese-tourist-referred-criminal-trial-insulting-egypt-facebook-190518538.html; 6/3/18, 11:37 PM
Jon Ericson said...: The forecast:

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BOOM; 6/3/18, 11:53 PM
Yancey Ward said...: The main problem with the Papadopoulos origin story is that the FBI didn't interview him until after Trump was sworn in, and apparently didn't even get a FISA warrant on him. This always seemed odd, but the revelation by Downer in that interview explains it- Papadopoulos didn't describe the existence of e-mails to Downer, and Papadopoulos also claimed in the Ross interview that he didn't admit knowing about Clinton e-mails in his conversation with Halper in September of 2016. When you add to that Mifsud's own denial in a public interview subsequent to Mifsud's own interview by the FBI, also after Trump was sworn in, then it is clear the only person claiming Mifsud discussed Clinton e-mails in Russian hands is Papadopoulos himself, and only in that FBI interview. It is a strange story that is difficult to explain rationally- note Halper knew enough to ask Papadopoulos about e-mails specifically, if you believe the reporting in Ross' story, which I do.; 6/4/18, 12:16 AM
Oso Negro said...: @ YoungHegelian - nice link!

In summary: anthropology in the 1960s, Louis and Mary Leakey digging up proto-humans in Olduvai Gorge; anthropology now, misfits digging through their own excrement.; 6/4/18, 4:01 AM
rhhardin said...: Crayola Needs Your Help Naming Its Newest Blue Crayon

Indian red.; 6/4/18, 4:51 AM
Jersey Fled said...: Darrell said:

"She failed the D.C. bar exam"

70% of her cohort passed. That puts her in the bottom 30%.

She later passed the Arkansas bar exam. Generally considered one of the easiest in the country.; 6/4/18, 6:18 AM
rwnutjob said...: Looks like Princess Diana Clematis. Wife was so excited that her's bloomed for the first time on the day of the Royal wedding.

She's such a g-i-r-l. :); 6/4/18, 6:50 AM
Rusty said...: Blogger Mid-Life Lawyer said...
"It's a tiny little one strand web we weave when we never really learn how to deceive. "

A lesson I learned early in life.Lying is too complicated. But telling the truth in a way so as not to be believed is entertaining as hell.; 6/4/18, 7:31 AM
Yancey Ward said...: "Crayola Needs Your Help Naming Its Newest Blue Crayon"

Congealed Democratic Tears; 6/4/18, 11:41 AM
Bad Lieutenant said...: chuck said...
> "The President's Missing"

If they really wanted to sell the book, the heroic president would be Republican. I'd buy that just out of curiosity and wonder that Clinton would write such a thing.

6/3/18, 8:55 PM

This was written 84 years ago, by a real author:

The President Vanishes https://g.co/kgs/TZKigh; 6/4/18, 7:04 PM