Althouse: At The Wolf Café...

June 1, 2018

At The Wolf Café...

... you can howl all night.

(And use the Althouse Portal to Amazon.)

41 comments:

Darrell said...: Oooh. The wolf and the birth canal.; 6/1/18, 9:30 PM
mccullough said...: You sendin the wolf? Shit, negro, that’s all you had to say.; 6/1/18, 9:48 PM
YoungHegelian said...: @mccullough,

You sendin the wolf? Shit, negro, that’s all you had to say

Like what, mccullough? Let's not start sucking each other's dicks quite yet!; 6/1/18, 9:59 PM
tcrosse said...: Enter the Wolf; 6/1/18, 10:02 PM
FullMoon said...: mccullough said... [hush][hide comment]

You sendin the wolf? Shit, negro, that’s all you had to say.

"Do you like oak?"; 6/1/18, 10:17 PM
chickelit said...: "Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright."; 6/1/18, 10:23 PM
chickelit said...: "Do you like oak?”

Not in my chard, please.; 6/1/18, 10:25 PM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: Didn't click through, but good Drudge headline today:

London at major risk of EARTHQUAKES after fault lines discovered under capital...; 6/1/18, 10:34 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Chickelit,

Ah, I love those old Hollywood horror movies. When I was growing up in the 70s and early 80s, a local television station every Saturday night had a "Chiller" double movie special after the late local news went off at 11:30 p.m. The movies were the classic horror movies just like The Wolf Man, The Mummy, The Blob, etc.; 6/1/18, 11:58 PM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: Our local horror movie feature was "Thriller", which opened with a silhouette of a big scary bird flapping around the screen. Which if you looked at it long enough, you realized it was the shadow puppet of two crossed index fingers..; 6/2/18, 12:29 AM
Humperdink said...: So within the last two months I have taken up pickleball. What a great sport, especially for us who area bit long on tooth and are still highly competitive.; 6/2/18, 6:13 AM
tim in vermont said...: I have been thinking of trying pickleball, but I think your “highly competitive” comment just turned me off on it. I guess I prefer golf where I won’t play for money and tell playing partners up front I am going to cheat, so please ignore my “score.”; 6/2/18, 6:32 AM
Tank said...: Pickleball is becoming a "thing" in my gated community (and elsewhere) down south. Sort of a tennis for people who can't run too much. My bad ankle says, "do not do that."; 6/2/18, 6:37 AM
Tank said...: Wonder if Althouse will blog the "The Housewives of White Supremacy" editorial in the NYT today. Sailer blogs it with just this comment, "The New York Times alerts us to the North Dakota Housewife Menace."; 6/2/18, 6:39 AM
Tank said...: The first thing you think when you first hear the word pickleball is: WTF?; 6/2/18, 6:40 AM
rehajm said...: Pickleball is causing problems in a couple of communities near my home. It's much louder than tennis apparently and people with houses too close to the courts are quite peeved...; 6/2/18, 6:49 AM
MadisonMan said...: Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doooo

(Talking of Wolf songs)

Needed an extra blanket last night. What a relief!; 6/2/18, 7:02 AM
tim in vermont said...: Twitter thread that shreds Pretty Boy Trudeau’s position on NAFTA; 6/2/18, 7:11 AM
Humperdink said...: Re: Pickleball. In our group, there two levels of players, the casual and the competitive. I immediately gravitated to the latter.

Wiki: "The game started during the summer of 1965 on Bainbridge Island, Washington, at the home of former State Representative Joel Pritchard who, in 1972, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and eventually went on to become Lieutenant Governor of Washington. He and two of his friends, Bill Bell and Barney McCallum, returned from golf and found their families bored one Saturday afternoon. They attempted to set up badminton, but no one could find the shuttlecock. They improvised with a Wiffle ball, lowered the badminton net, and fabricated paddles of plywood from a nearby shed.[4][5][6]

Although some sources claim that the name "Pickleball" was derived from that of the Pritchard's family dog, Pickles, the name actually came from the term "pickle boat", referring to the last boat to return with its catch.[4][6] According to Joan Pritchard, Joel Pritchard's wife, the name came "after I said it reminded me of the Pickle Boat in crew where oarsmen were chosen from the leftovers of other boats. Somehow the idea the name came from our dog Pickles was attached to the naming of the game, but Pickles wasn't on the scene for two more years. The dog was named from the game."[7; 6/2/18, 7:21 AM
MadisonMan said...: btw -- That was Hungry Like the Wolf. I think I counted the number of Doos correctly.

Ridiculous song. But catchy.; 6/2/18, 7:24 AM
cf said...: Nothing new on Althouse yet this morning, so I dip into twitter and find charming content about the history of the c word. Did you know it was the original english, even medical word for lady parts? And that "vagina" introduced in 17th c refers to the sheath of a sword? This defender of the word has some delightful points to make:
https://www.thewhoresofyore.com/kates-journal/a-nasty-name-for-a-nasty-thing-a-history-of-cunt
Happy June, everyone!; 6/2/18, 7:31 AM
MadisonMan said...: @cf, I was walking home last night and overheard a mom talking to her daughter on their porch about how urine works, and that when the bladder gets full, the pee comes out of her vagina, and I almost yelled out 'urethra' but I just kept walking, imagining a vagina full of pee.; 6/2/18, 7:51 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: "London at major risk of EARTHQUAKES after fault lines discovered under capital..."

Well, for a city that has been around for a millennium thereabouts, without a lot of noticeable earthquakes, I don't think that the threat is imminent. More likely, I think, put under Sharia law.; 6/2/18, 7:54 AM
tim in vermont said...: Written to inspire courage in those daunted by wartimes shortages, How to Cook a Wolf continues to rally cooks during times of plenty, reminding them that providing sustenance requires more than putting food on the table. M. F. K. Fisher knew that the last thing hungry people needed were hints on cutting back and making do. Instead, she gives her readers license to dream, to experiment, to construct adventurous and delicious meals as a bulwark against a dreary, meager present. Her fine prose provides reason in itself to draw our chairs close to the hearth; we can still enjoy her company and her exhortations to celebrate life by eating well.

Available you know where!; 6/2/18, 8:00 AM
Birkel said...: U6 unemployment is 7.8%.
U2 unemployment is 3.8%.
Black unemployment is at an historic low.

How will the press continue to ignore these stories now that Stormy Daniels and 'muh Russia' have fizzled?
Foreign unrest?
Trade war nonsense?

Honestly I have difficulty imagining their next play.; 6/2/18, 8:02 AM
narciso said...: A palate cleanser:

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/06/the-week-in-pictures-privacy-update-edition.php; 6/2/18, 8:08 AM
narciso said...: Catching up:

https://spectator.org/hit-gas-not-brakes-on-spygate/; 6/2/18, 8:09 AM
MadisonMan said...: How will the press continue to ignore these stories now that Stormy Daniels and 'muh Russia' have fizzled?

I did see a headline on the robustness of the US Economy (best in 18 years or something, I just glanced) on p. 3 of the local paper today.; 6/2/18, 8:16 AM
Birkel said...: MadisonMan,

I am happy to watch the press destroy its credibility by not reporting the obvious economic expansion we are witnessing. Everybody can observe the positive economy. Local employers are complaining that they cannot hire enough employees to staff restaurants, grocery stores, fast food, and other unskilled labor positions. People see the "Help Wanted" signs.

And the press refuses to admit what is. Trump gets credit whether the press reports the economy or not. And the press loses credibility.

I am not yet tired of the winning.; 6/2/18, 8:26 AM
narciso said...: One way is to yell squirrel?

https://mobile.twitter.com/BryanDeanWright/status/1002736083069644800; 6/2/18, 8:40 AM
Bruce Gee said...: Ha, Tim In Vermont! I haven’t read MFK Fischer for decades! The idea behind that particular book is explained: “When the wolf is lying by your door, cook it!” She has a chapter I remember, “How To Be Content With A Vegetable Love”. Wonderful book.; 6/2/18, 8:43 AM
narciso said...: So entous has almost always been a hack

https://mobile.twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1002607542281916422; 6/2/18, 8:58 AM
narciso said...: Some of what a million dollars of Pentagon loot did:

https://mobile.twitter.com/RealSLokhova/status/1002418987085582336; 6/2/18, 9:25 AM
tim in vermont said...: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/upshot/we-ran-out-of-words-to-describe-how-good-the-jobs-numbers-are.html; 6/2/18, 9:48 AM
tim in vermont said...: Maybe the NYT could do a crossword with all of the superlatives they needed to employ to describe the jobs report?; 6/2/18, 9:51 AM
Hammond X. Gritzkofe said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 6/2/18, 12:32 PM
Hammond X. Gritzkofe said...: Drudge has a link this morning: "Brother of man killed while fleeing ICE is deported..."

At the linked story, KTLA channel 5, the headline clarifies the man (and wife) died when their car crashed as they were fleeing ICE agents.

"Died" appears 3 times on the page. "Killed" (a word which implies an causative actor other than the demised) appears 10 times.

Interestingly, it was the brother (later found and deported) of the demised whom the ICE agents were initially seeking. The similar looking demised brother had been first accosted by agents, did a rabbit with his wife (they both being undocumented), crashed and killed them both.; 6/2/18, 12:37 PM
Big Mike said...: The last thing the wolf sees when he's chasing Little Red Riding Hood.; 6/2/18, 1:50 PM
tim in vermont said...: Nearly 60 percent of fatally injured drivers with known results tested positive for marijuana, opioids or a combination of both in 2016, the Governors Highway Safety Association said Thursday.

My goodness.; 6/2/18, 3:23 PM
Ken B said...: Firing low wage employees who did nothing wrong is the bestest social justice. http://komonews.com/news/local/portland-bakery-fires-employees-for-denying-black-woman-service-after-closing-06-01-2018

Be bestest, fire a poor person today.; 6/2/18, 3:27 PM
Michael K said...: A little needed dose of < reality in the "Collusion" never ending tale.

The nation has been led to believe that Papadopoulos was interacting with clandestine agents of Russia, who told him the Kremlin was in possession of thousands of emails that could damage Clinton — emails that media reporting has implied were the ones hacked from the DNC and published during the campaign. There are, however, grounds to believe an alternative version of events: A very low-level, inexperienced Trump-campaign adviser was interacting with a Maltese academic who had no real Kremlin ties and no inside information about whether Russia actually possessed damaging information about Clinton, in the form of emails or otherwise; this young campaign adviser then made a vague claim to an Australian diplomat, who did not hear him say anything about emails, and did not report the conversation to his government through regular channels.

Meanwhile we obsess about Stormy and Roseanne.; 6/2/18, 4:32 PM