Althouse: At the Wednesday Night Cafe...

August 22, 2018

At the Wednesday Night Cafe...

... name your poison.

44 comments:

Sprezzatura said...: Is the red pill the one that makes you woke (in the good way) such that you are reborn as a con, aka enlightened.

Doesn't sound like poison. Snake oil?; 8/22/18, 9:03 PM
Sprezzatura said...: https://medium.com/the-national-conservative/what-is-the-red-pill-43b5569557fa

Milo confirms.; 8/22/18, 9:04 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Big Althouse = red pill.
Little Altouse = blue pill.; 8/22/18, 9:09 PM
Mountain Maven said...: I'd luv to hear how clintonista shill Lanny Davis became Cohen's lawyer.; 8/22/18, 9:19 PM
walter said...: Mountain Maven,
Collusion with the "investigation" cabal.; 8/22/18, 9:33 PM
Big Mike said...: @Mountain Maven, slime runs with slime? But even by that standard it seems ... slimy.; 8/22/18, 9:34 PM
The Godfather said...: My opinion of Trump's character (never particularly high) was lowered when I learned that he'd chosen Michael Cohen as his lawyer, and when I learned what kind of stuff Cohen did for Trump. As Ben Franklin said, He who lies down with the dogs, gets up with the flees. That said, I don't see any reason to credit the anti-Trump claims made by Cohen as part of his plea bargain, or by his lawyer, another dog lier.; 8/22/18, 9:39 PM
Narayanan said...: From Zerohedge ...
Turns out Mollie Tibbets was woke girl and tweetes "I hate White People."; 8/22/18, 9:48 PM
Narayanan said...: Could be opening move by Bill Clinton ...
Maybe Trump should hold summit with Hillary to bring peace to USA; 8/22/18, 9:54 PM
StephenFearby said...: OK, here's a largely unrecognized poison (that needs to be recognized):

The Atlantic
America’s Invisible Pot Addicts
More and more Americans are reporting near-constant cannabis use, as legalization forges ahead.

'...Evan, who asked that his full name not be used for fear of professional repercussions, has a self-described cannabis-use disorder. If not necessarily because of legalization, but alongside legalization, such problems are becoming more common: The share of adults with one has doubled since the early aughts, as the share of cannabis users who consume it daily or near-daily has jumped nearly 50 percent—all “in the context of increasingly permissive cannabis legislation, attitudes, and lower risk perception,” as the National Institutes of Health put it.

Public-health experts worry about the increasingly potent options available, and the striking number of constant users. “Cannabis is potentially a real public-health problem,” said Mark A. R. Kleiman, a professor of public policy at New York University. “It wasn’t obvious to me 25 years ago, when 9 percent of self-reported cannabis users over the last month reported daily or near-daily use. I always was prepared to say, ‘No, it’s not a very abusable drug. Nine percent of anybody will do something stupid.’ But that number is now [something like] 40 percent.” They argue that state and local governments are setting up legal regimes without sufficient public-health protection, with some even warning that the country is replacing one form of reefer madness with another, careening from treating cannabis as if it were as dangerous as heroin to treating it as if it were as benign as kombucha.

But cannabis is not benign, even if it is relatively benign, compared with alcohol, opiates, and cigarettes, among other substances. Thousands of Americans are finding their own use problematic in a climate where pot products are getting more potent, more socially acceptable to use, and yet easier to come by, not that it was particularly hard before.'

'...Public-health experts worry about the increasingly potent options available, and the striking number of constant users. “Cannabis is potentially a real public-health problem,” said Mark A. R. Kleiman, a professor of public policy at New York University. “It wasn’t obvious to me 25 years ago, when 9 percent of self-reported cannabis users over the last month reported daily or near-daily use. I always was prepared to say, ‘No, it’s not a very abusable drug. Nine percent of anybody will do something stupid.’ But that number is now [something like] 40 percent.” They argue that state and local governments are setting up legal regimes without sufficient public-health protection, with some even warning that the country is replacing one form of reefer madness with another, careening from treating cannabis as if it were as dangerous as heroin to treating it as if it were as benign as kombucha.

But cannabis is not benign, even if it is relatively benign, compared with alcohol, opiates, and cigarettes, among other substances. Thousands of Americans are finding their own use problematic in a climate where pot products are getting more potent, more socially acceptable to use, and yet easier to come by, not that it was particularly hard before.'

'...Part of how legalization was sold was with this assumption that there was no harm, in reaction to the message that everyone has smoked marijuana was going to ruin their whole life,” [Keith] Humphreys [a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University] told me. It was a point Kleiman agreed with. “I do think that not legalization, but the legalization movement, does have a lot on its conscience now,” he said. “The mantra about how this is a harmless, natural, and non-addictive substance—it’s now known by everybody. And it’s a lie.”'

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/08/americas-invisible-pot-addicts/567886/; 8/22/18, 9:56 PM
traditionalguy said...: Amazing rollout of smooth propaganda happened today. Even NPR had a fully ready detailed 30 minute attack narrative based on Cohn's "conviction" for crimes committed upon the order of Trump. This is a major Deep State Counter-offensive shooting all they have left. The Enemy of the People's President were celebrating the defeat of the Trump Presidency with glee.; 8/22/18, 9:58 PM
Sebastian said...: "name your poison"

Progressivism.

Worse than arsenic, worse than dioxin: it poisons everything.; 8/22/18, 10:03 PM
Sprezzatura said...: "shooting all they have left"

You sure about that?; 8/22/18, 10:06 PM
narciso said...: Meanwhile master card has cut off David Horowitz whose been a truth teller for 40 some years.; 8/22/18, 10:07 PM
William said...: I'm probably not the first person to make this observation: There's a kind of Old/New Testament variance between George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. George Washington is distant, unforgiving, and righteous. He owns slaves, flogs the soldiers at Valley Forge To maintain discipline, and smites our enemies. God the Father. ......Abraham Lincoln is altogether more human and accessible. He has kindness and a sense of humor. He suffers and dies for our sins. Definitely the Jesus figure in the passion play of Presidents.......Perhaps you could feature Andrew Jackson as either St Paul or John the Baptist, but that's probably taking it too far........Trump? He's more like a Renaissance Pope than a true biblical figure. Obama? Maybe some scholastic saint who preaches against usury and masturbation. I haven't quite worked out all the parallels here. But the parallel between Washington and Lincoln definitely works.; 8/22/18, 10:08 PM
narciso said...: Probably more like Grover Cleveland who had a checkered past, but was for sound money; 8/22/18, 10:11 PM
themightypuck said...: If you want the red pill read Moldbug who's got a whole new site. https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/ Same old stuff from a decade ago but still entertaining if you forgot it all or never read it.

In other news, Trump asks Pompeo to look into SA land grab shenanigans. Maggie H thinks it is a subtle attempt to distract media from Cohen. Nice try Maggie (and Trump for that matter), as if the MSM would look into SA. In the unlikely event they do, it will be to try to paint Trump as racist because the majority of land grabees look to be white. Does no one remember Mugabe?; 8/22/18, 10:12 PM
narciso said...: It just works out that way:

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/rep-darrell-issa-accuses-us-attorney-of-politi; 8/22/18, 10:17 PM
walter said...: anti-de Sitter space said...

"shooting all they have left"

You sure about that?

8/22/18, 10:06 PM
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True enough..much like your repeated empty spaces.; 8/22/18, 10:20 PM
walter said...: It's all about skewing the signal to noise ratio up to the midterms.; 8/22/18, 10:23 PM
walter said...: Blogger Narayanan Subramanian said...From Zerohedge ...
Turns out Mollie Tibbets was woke girl and tweetes "I hate White People."
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Her ability to revise her opinions ended at age 20.
Not a real problem according to Fauxcohontas.; 8/22/18, 10:27 PM
narciso said...: Yes foolish thoughts like that girl in South Africa many years ago, any biehl, doesn't make her murder any less tragic.; 8/22/18, 10:30 PM
narciso said...: Basically

https://spectator.org/ignore-the-noise-mueller-still-has-nothing/

So the aramco ipo seems to have fallen aparr; 8/22/18, 10:52 PM
eddie willers said...: I'd luv to hear how clintonista shill Lanny Davis became Cohen's lawyer.

A recommendation from Mueller?; 8/22/18, 10:54 PM
Mike Sylwester said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 8/22/18, 10:55 PM
narciso said...: Trump basically derailed Parsi project

https://mobile.twitter.com/HeshmatAlavi/status/1032305203213742081; 8/22/18, 10:57 PM
Mike Sylwester said...: Song lyrics by Cole Porter (1891 - 1954)

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I Get a Kick Out of You

My story is much too sad
To be told.
Practically everything leaves me
Totally cold.

The only exception is when
I'm out on a quiet spree,
Fighting vainly
The old ennui,
And I suddenly turn and see
Your fabulous face

I get no kick from champagne.
Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all.

So tell me why should it be true
That I get a kick out of you?

Some get a kick from cocaine.
I'm sure that if I took even one sniff,
It would bore me terrifically too.

Yet I get a kick out of you.

I get a kick every time I see
You standing there before me.
I get a kick, though it's clear to me,
You obviously don't adore me.

I get no kick in a plane.
Flying too high
With some guy
In the sky
Is my idea of nothing to do.

Yet I get a kick
Out of you.

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Sung by Jamie Cullen; 8/22/18, 10:58 PM
Andrew said...: @William,
Tchaikovsky said something similar about Beethoven (distant) and Mozart (approachable).; 8/22/18, 10:58 PM
n.n said...: Progressivism. Worse than arsenic, worse than ...

It's monotonic. Choose your principles.; 8/22/18, 11:07 PM
Narayanan said...: My point is that culture rot is spread everywhere through education as Buwaya keeps stressing.; 8/22/18, 11:08 PM
narciso said...: Apropos of nothing

https://youtu.be/Nc7idmQUgbE; 8/22/18, 11:19 PM
Drago said...: If Mollie tibbets struggled against her angelic illegal immigrant murderer too aggressively, will the lefties demand her body be exhumed and prosecuted for hate crimes?; 8/22/18, 11:24 PM
walter said...: There was a blackout, Drago.
Likely triggered by a glance over her shoulder that exuded nascent privilege-y thoughts.; 8/22/18, 11:35 PM
narciso said...: Now her family, is firmly eloi:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.yahoo.com/amphtml/lifestyle/mollie-tibbetts-cousin-responds-claims-loved-ones-murder-politic; 8/22/18, 11:47 PM
narciso said...: Wasnt that jeffrey mcdonalds defense, seriously.; 8/22/18, 11:52 PM
Drago said...: walter: "There was a blackout, Drago.
Likely triggered by a glance over her shoulder that exuded nascent privilege-y thoughts"

Little known fact: Fully woke FBI agents can just smell the "privilege" of Trump and his supporters.; 8/23/18, 12:10 AM
narciso said...: All the way down under:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1007243/Malcolm-Turnbull-Australia-Liberal-Party-leadership-contest-second-Peter-Dutton-vote; 8/23/18, 12:31 AM
rcommal said...: Name my poison? I do, every now and again, though vanishingly rarely , nowadays.

Awful, awful last couple so days, as the bleeding out of stuff over the last few days of stuff that's been true over at least 35ish years,

I did try to you warn y'all.

Seriously, with regards:

reader_iam

rcommal

+

Lori

(whatever I might be, I sure am not a robot, nor even a bot.); 8/23/18, 3:37 AM
rcommal said...: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq0OcmU4ed8; 8/23/18, 3:59 AM
Humperdink said...: Read this joke in the comments section of a Mark Steyn column:

Why do they call it the Lewinsky scandal?

Because if they called it the Clinton scandal, people would have to ask, "which one?"; 8/23/18, 5:33 AM
Clyde said...: One man's fish is another man's poisson.; 8/23/18, 5:50 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: There's a reason some Americans think we talk of too much history - and why some Americans say we know too little: The black slaves who fled to Britain: Photos reveal the faces of African Americans who found freedom from brutality... but only after crossing the Atlantic; 8/23/18, 6:37 AM
Michael K said...: Crack will never recover from the slavery he never experienced.

Meanwhile life goes on and more important things, like my barn owl box, are calling.; 8/23/18, 9:34 AM
FIDO said...: Let's say by playing footsie with the government that Cohen is given immunity for fabulating against Trump.

Who is going to hire him as anything ever again? Whether he actually broke attorney/client privilege, it SEEMS like he did. And perception is the reality of the perceiver.; 8/23/18, 11:05 AM