Althouse: At the Water Lily Café...

August 15, 2018

At the Water Lily Café...

... you can talk all night.

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45 comments:

Jon Ericson said...: The Kristol ship
The Crystal Ship; 8/15/18, 8:59 PM
Lyle Sanford, RMT said...: another wonderfully restful pic; 8/15/18, 9:01 PM
Michael K said...: I have been to Monet's home and estate, which has been restored.

The bridge over his water lily garden.

A couple of my kids on the bridge.; 8/15/18, 9:12 PM
Henry said...: "We are largely better at doing than we are at thinking" -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“They employed their time as they had always done, doing the things they were in the mood to do and always something useful.” -- Jane Duncan; 8/15/18, 9:20 PM
Mike Sylwester said...: Song lyrics by Allan Roberts (1905 - 1966) and Doris Fisher (1915 - 2003)

-----

Tired

Tired of the life I lead,
Tired of the blues I breed,
Tired of the things I need.

Gonna cut out wine,
And that's the truth.
Get a brand-new guy
While I got my youth!

Tired of the clothes I wear,
Tired of the patches there,
Tired of the crows I scare.

Gonna truck downtown
And spend my moo,
Get some short-vamped shoes
And a new guy too!

Scrubbing and cleaning
Sure leaves my glamour with a scar.
Mending and mopping,
Starching and shopping,
Don't make me look like Hedy Lamarr!

Tired 'cause the tears I shed,
Tired of living in the red,
Tired of the same old bed.

Gonna lead the life of Cindy Lou.
Gonna do the things I know she'd do.
'Cause I'm tired, mighty tired of you!

-----

Sung by Pearl Bailey; 8/15/18, 9:21 PM
Sebastian said...: Another day, another Muslim outrage:

"KABUL, Afghanistan — A bomb tore through a university preparatory academy in Kabul, killing 48 and injuring 67 others, according to the country's Health Ministry.

The attacker targeted the private school in the minority Hazara neighborhood where a group of young men and women were studying for university entrance exams."; 8/15/18, 9:22 PM
Jon Ericson said...: Mike K:
Aw Jeez, "Man with Shorts."; 8/15/18, 9:22 PM
Jon Ericson said...: No socks, though.; 8/15/18, 9:26 PM
Drago said...: Sebastian: "The attacker targeted the private school in the minority Hazara neighborhood where a group of young men and women were studying for university entrance exams."

Have the dems started a GoFundMe to help bring any bomber enablers to the US yet?; 8/15/18, 9:54 PM
Big Mike said...: I made a lily pond for the wife back at our first house. Those yellow lilies are showy, but actually the hardiest, most prolific, and easiest to maintain. The lily is named Charlene Starwn. Our pond was not large enough for koi so we made do with goldfish and shibunkins. Neighbor’s cat was a problem.; 8/15/18, 9:55 PM
Caroline said...: What a beautiful image. Ahhh.; 8/15/18, 10:01 PM
Michael K said...: Blogger Jon Ericson said...
Mike K:
Aw Jeez, "Man with Shorts."

I don't go out in shorts but some do.

That bridge was rebuilt and is in some of his paintings.; 8/15/18, 10:08 PM
Michael K said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 8/15/18, 10:10 PM
Jon Ericson said...: Mike K:
Just kidding.
I am a Man in Shorts under similar circumstances.; 8/15/18, 10:19 PM
stephen cooper said...: When I was young I hoped to be something more than mediocre.

Now after decades of being treated as a mediocre person, I have learned ....

the painters who are famous may have seen the world in a praiseworthy way, but

it is the losers in life, the people who wanted to be loved and who were not loved, who look at:

the trees in the wind

the fields at the sides of the highways

the pastel colors of a rainy city at night

the kind eyes of people who have no reason to care about you but who do

who do, after all, care about you, because they have seen in their dreams how much God loves, and how much God is fascinated by, the mediocre people who are my people (I remember)

That is art. Raphael and Leonardo could not, at their best moments, have painted the actual look in the eyes of someone who returned, with care and love, the look in the eyes of someone who had never ever before seen, in the eyes of another human being, kindness.

Art is difficult, so difficult that it almost does not exist.

But art and love are real.

If I am wrong about one of these things, I am wrong about this: "art is real" I could be wrong about that, but I cannot possibly be wrong about this, trust me:

"love is real".

Maybe art is not real. When clowns like Picasso are considered geniuses, maybe that is a sign that art is not real, but:

if I am wrong about one of these things, art is a plaything, and I could be wrong about art. Love is real. Love is real. I am not wrong about that, I guarantee you.; 8/15/18, 10:25 PM
Birkel said...: Anybody know when Brett Kavanaugh gets confirmed?

Was that a micro- or macro-aggression toward the Lefties?

Is RBG alive still?
#3TrumpJustices; 8/15/18, 10:26 PM
narciso said...: In light of the fact, that an Islamic State hitman surfaced in Sacramento, that's not a,rhetorical question.; 8/15/18, 10:28 PM
Birkel said...: Aren’t we glad Obama let that ISIS guy into America?
Aren’t we glad a Hawaiian judge made sure Trump couldn’t stop more ISIS fighters from arriving?
/s; 8/15/18, 10:39 PM
narciso said...: Yes he went back to Iraq, after he got his degree card, to kill people,; 8/15/18, 10:44 PM
Paul Mac said...: Rock and Roll references by judges. Unsurprisingly Dylan leads them.

https://reason.com/volokh/2018/08/15/rock-roll-judges; 8/15/18, 10:54 PM
Francisco D said...: What is wrong with shorts?

I have worn them every day since moving to Arizona.

I plan to wear shorts and sandals for most of the rest of my life, but promised my fiancé not to go overboard on the Hawaiian shirts.; 8/15/18, 11:09 PM
StephenFearby said...: Tomorow's continuing peeling of the Russiagate onion:

Chuck Ross, DC

"House Republicans will resume an investigation of the FBI and DOJ’s handling of the Russia investigation on Thursday with a deposition of George Z. Toscas, a national security attorney at the Department of Justice.

Toscas, who handles counterterrorism and counterespionage cases, will appear for a deposition at 10 a.m. before staffers with the House Judiciary and House Government & Oversight Committees..."

"...[Devin] Nunes suggested interviewing Toscas and the other officials regarding an investigation into the FBI and Justice Department’s possible abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)."

http://dailycaller.com/2018/08/15/republicans-doj-george-toscas/

Why the House Toscas interview will likely be a lot more productive than Strzok's (in shining a light on the FBI FISA abuse):

TPM Josh Marshall June 14, 2018

..It’s summed up in an at-length quote from a career DOJ Prosecutor, George Toscas, who earlier reporting had suggested was what we might call, for lack of a better word, a Hillary investigation ‘hawk’.

"One of the things that I tell people all the time, after having been in the Department for almost 24 years now, is I stress to people and people who work at all levels, the institution has principles and there’s always an urge when something important or different pops up to say, we should do it differently or those principles or those protocols you know we should—we might want to deviate because this is so different. But the comfort that we get as people, as lawyers, as representatives, as employees and as an institution, the comfort we get from those institutional policies, protocols, has, is an unbelievable thing through whatever storm, you know whatever storm hits us, when you are within the norm of the way the institution behaves, you can weather any of it because you stand on the principle.

And once you deviate, even in a minor way, and you’re always going to want to deviate. It’s always going to be something important and some big deal that makes you think, oh let’s do this a little differently. But once you do that, you have removed yourself from the comfort of saying this institution has a way of doing things and then every decision is another ad hoc decision that may be informed by our policy and our protocol and principles, but it’s never going to be squarely within them."

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/brutal-reading

NRO's Andrew McCarthy would approve.; 8/15/18, 11:12 PM
Milwaukie Guy said...: I think most people misunderstand the second clause of the first amendment, "or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...."

Today the media tries to reserve for itself this right "of the press." I don't know when in the 20th century the media started referring to themselves as "The Press." When the Bill of Rights was written and until there were "radio stations," they were called newspapers.

The founders' thinking is actually broader than the way we think today. Really, they were talking about the right of Americans to publish without interference. Of course, being four score years before the telegraph, they were actually talking about physical printing presses, the most modern technology for mass communication.

Americans could print their partisan newspapers, scurrilous leaflets, radical essays and pamphlets, their farmers almanacs and novels and poetry, their notices for selling negro humans at auction and other commerce, etc.... Before telephone and then radio, actual speech could only reach so far. With freedom of the press, an individual could spread his ideas near and far.

In the Spanish New World colonies, the importation of printing presses for private use was prohibited. Only the colonial government could publish. Ben Franklin, on the other hand, had investments with half a dozen printers up and down the colonial coast. A big hero of our revolution was a penniless pamphleter. He got published.

When I was working on communist newspapers in the 70s, I'd be the one to go to the printer. From management to the press floor, these guys thought we were anti-patriotic assholes and worse, but, they printed our shit. Or a gay movie newsletter with fisting pictures. It was an ethos. Of course, you might have to shop around for the right printer. Not everyone would bake your cake.

Freedom of the press is the right of individuals to publish [or groups because they have a right to assemble]. Citizens United should have been decided on this basis. Films, video, paintings, printing, our personal pages on Facebook, our videos on YouTube, our broadcast texts on Twitter—it's all publishing.

The market position of Google, Facebook and Twitter in their respective silos is monolithic. That they censor publishing in concert makes this issue even more important. Ma Bell never disconnected the Nazis phones! It is time to regulate these monopolies as common carriers because they abridge an American's freedom of the press.

If communists, flat earthers, vegans and jihadis have freedom of the press, so does Alex Jones.; 8/15/18, 11:13 PM
narciso said...: But say MasterCard board includes Obama's fcc chairman, genakowski; 8/15/18, 11:16 PM
Francisco D said...: "At least six senior FBI officials involved in the Hillary Clinton email investigation have been fired or have resigned since May 2017."

But, but ... Stormy Daniels, Amorosa, Michael Cohen, White Supremacy, pussy talk.; 8/15/18, 11:18 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Stick a fork in Andrew Cuomo. What a political blunder.; 8/15/18, 11:53 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Presumably Doc Mike has seen the real not-real (I.e. painting) thing too.

Loved it.

IMHO.; 8/15/18, 11:57 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Sorry for being mean.

Public displays are cool, too.; 8/16/18, 12:04 AM
wwww said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 8/16/18, 12:15 AM
Sprezzatura said...: The love of Rand is Godly. When biz leaders are unrestrained (or even better, R cronies) everybody receives grace. Serving employers w/o fussing looks good on you pearly gate ap.

Suffer now = win for eternity.

Duh.; 8/16/18, 12:29 AM
Sprezzatura said...: And, the rich in the pre-afterlife are F-ed later.

Sucks to be them.; 8/16/18, 12:31 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Now that the FCC has shut down Alex Jones’s flagship radio station, the Right will point out Gwyneth Paltrow sells the exact same BS products, and also pushes misinformation. They have to - it's politics and they're idiots with no idea what's unfolding. And then, just like with race, I'll watch my antagonists - on both sides - suffer.

It's been so long.

I have "faith" in one thing: Truth is gonna burn across this Hell hole y'all call "Home" like a prairie fire.; 8/16/18, 2:01 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: America's cult crimes, always the same:

“It’s a sad example of the entire system breaking down...”

Sad = typical.; 8/16/18, 2:10 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: “You cannot be post-truth.

You know perfectly well that if you go out in the street and there’s a bus bearing down on you, it’s very important that you believe that there’s a bus bearing down on you. If you’re wrong about that, you could be dead. Your whole life is premised on things like that.

In that sense, we can never really be post-truth.

What we do have, though, is a problem in other domains, like politics and religion and ethics. There is a loss of authority in these areas, meaning there’s no certain or agreed-upon way of getting at the truth…in politics, people get very attached to hope. They hope for a vision which may or may not be realistic, and may or may not be grounded in truth and facts.

It’s a bit like conspiracy theorists, who actually thrive on the fact that all the evidence points against their theory, because that just shows that the establishment is clever enough to conceal what’s really going on. People get attached to certain ideas and nothing will shake them. And when convictions start to live in opposition to reason or truth, that’s a very dangerous thing.”

So take it out of their hands.; 8/16/18, 5:01 AM
Oso Negro said...: @ Crack - I would say "reality". People can believe damn near anything to be true. Reality always wins.; 8/16/18, 5:14 AM
FIDO said...: What would a blog by Althouse look like which did that 'proctological political deep cleansing enema', where for a week, no politics were involved?

Would we, as the readers, stick around or would we miss our 'outrage' button constantly being pressed?; 8/16/18, 6:01 AM
Bad Lieutenant said...: Yancey Ward said...
Stick a fork in Andrew Cuomo. What a political blunder.

8/15/18, 11:53 PM

From your mouth to God's ears, but do you know something? Link?; 8/16/18, 6:03 AM
tim in vermont said...: B.L. Go to Drudge, but "America was never that great" was kind of stupid. I am sure that everybody he knows and talks to believes it though.; 8/16/18, 6:10 AM
tim in vermont said...: The love of Rand is Godly. When biz leaders are unrestrained (or even better, R cronies) everybody receives grace.

Notice that the shitter always specifies "R cronies" when dealing out contempt. I wonder if he has an example of an "R crony" who did better than Clinton crony Terry McAulliffe, you know, the guy who got fabulously wealthy on a questionable deal steered his way by the connections he made as a Clinton bundler. The guy who gave $750K to the campaign of the wife of one of the main FBI agents "investigating" Hillary, the guy who now wants to run for President.

I wonder if the shitter has any comparable examples of "R cronies" because he never seems to worry about "D cronies" it's only 'R cronies" that get him riled.; 8/16/18, 6:16 AM
Ralph L said...: America was never; 8/16/18, 6:30 AM
tim in vermont said...: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6062349/Thirty-men-woman-charged-sexual-exploitation-girls-young-12.html

The above prosecution is obviously racist and culturally insensitive.; 8/16/18, 6:39 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Oso Negro said...

"@ Crack - I would say "reality". People can believe damn near anything to be true. Reality always wins."

Point taken. Of course you're right.; 8/16/18, 6:48 AM
Paco Wové said...: "Would we, as the readers, stick around"

I would, as long as it wasn't All Dylan All The Time.; 8/16/18, 7:07 AM
Rusty said...: "I plan to wear shorts and sandals for most of the rest of my life, but promised my fiancé not to go overboard on the Hawaiian shirts."

I got that covered for ya. The shirt thing. I mean.; 8/16/18, 7:14 AM
Michael K said...: IDO said...
What would a blog by Althouse look like which did that 'proctological political deep cleansing enema', where for a week, no politics were involved?

Would we, as the readers, stick around or would we miss our 'outrage' button constantly being pressed?

This is one of the only two political blogs I read. At Chicagoboyz, we have been talking about VJ Day.

At Neo, talking about Tuscany,

At Facebook, talking about my son's 10 year old daughter shooting his AR 15.; 8/17/18, 6:05 PM