Althouse: At the Sunday Night Cafe...

November 25, 2018

At the Sunday Night Cafe...

... you can talk about whatever you want.

40 comments:

Humperdink said...: Pathetic performance by the Steelers today. Two picks (one at the goal line), two fumbles (one at the goal line) and a blocked FG attempt. They are not ready to play teams with losing records.; 11/25/18, 8:08 PM
David Begley said...: Russian ships capture Urkanian ships. Drudge.; 11/25/18, 8:12 PM
Birkel said...: The Russians are ready to play against teams with losing records.

#meta; 11/25/18, 8:14 PM
YoungHegelian said...: Last night late, I watched 3 & 1/2 episodes of the CNN special on Patty Hearst. Most of the episodes dealt with the criminal shenanigans of Patty Hearst & her fellow members of the Symbionese Liberation Army. You could say that it was clearly a case of "If it bleeds, it leads" determining content.

None of the participants come across very well. Patty Hearst especially is painted in a very unsympathetic light. It's clear that the CNN producer & head-writer, Jeffrey Toobin, thinks that Hearst used her family's power & influence to "control the narrative" to build the case that she was brainwashed in captivity, thus a witless pawn in all she crimes she committed & abetted, a narrative that finally culminated in her presidential pardon from Bill Clinton.

What struck me as sad was that Toobin seems to have no stomach to investigate just what part his guild played in building that narrative, seeing as the SLA involved a strange intersection of the "Right-Kind of People" (the wealthy & connected Hearst family) with the romance of radical Left-Wing politics. If Toobin is really concerned about the forces that let the SLA get away, literally, with murder, he might want to take a look around the CNN cafeteria sometime.; 11/25/18, 8:19 PM
Tank said...: The new Coen Brothers movie is lots of fun.; 11/25/18, 8:22 PM
tim in vermont said...: Miami game was interesting. 3 turnovers in 17 seconds at one point, but somebody had to win.; 11/25/18, 8:26 PM
chillblaine said...: argghy mates, the she-beast has consumed her fill of the pinot and sounded, good day lahhhhhhdddds, remember lads the briny deep often cannot contain the terrible beast, aye, mateys, arrhhhgggh; 11/25/18, 8:34 PM
Big Mike said...: Sons and daughter in law returned home. Glad to have them.; 11/25/18, 8:35 PM
David Begley said...: Tank:

Much of that movie was filmed in NE. A msjor movie will soon be filmed in Omaha.; 11/25/18, 8:55 PM
chillblaine said...: Hi all, here is Inara, our ten year old standard, going after a ball. She is just relentless, enjoy. Hey also fam-a-lam this is from craigslist san diego, my telecom technician ad. Go ethernet! OK here, my telecom tech ad, thanks, and also could probably consult on the phone, whatever, but get on the 10BASET choo choo! Matt; 11/25/18, 8:56 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Big M is my favorite M 'round these parts.

Not that there's anything wrong w/ the others.

IMHO.

P.S. I know we're not there yet. But, if twelve years from now Meadehouse is all 'F it' re the prevailing POV: how about a poll re the Mikes?

I'll still be here. Still fer Bigger is better.

IMHO.; 11/25/18, 9:02 PM
Enlighten-NewJersey said...: Carter pardoned Patty Hearst.; 11/25/18, 9:04 PM
Big Mike said...: Personally, I preferred Doctor Michael K.; 11/25/18, 9:05 PM
Sprezzatura said...: You have more heart.; 11/25/18, 9:07 PM
Big Mike said...: @Enlighten, Carter pardoned a lot of people who didn’t deserve it.; 11/25/18, 9:09 PM
narciso said...: Yes the sla which was satirized as the ecumenical liberation front as well as Angela Davis as Lorraine Hobbs had aspects of panther and weatherman with an extra soupcon of crazeh; 11/25/18, 9:10 PM
narciso said...: Well this is what he's been up to:

https://chicagoboyz.net/; 11/25/18, 9:13 PM
FIDO said...: Think about how empty the faculty room at your local university would be if Carter hasn't pardoned all those draft dodgers.

They eschewed their responsibilities and duties as citizens...and they taught the children since to do the same.

That was something pretty massive culturally.

Perhaps a better form of 'pardon' would have been an admission of guilt and then pardon. That way the worst radicals could stay in Canada or England.; 11/25/18, 9:15 PM
Sprezzatura said...: FIDO makes an interesting point re excuses and spurs and POTUS.

Humans are interesting.; 11/25/18, 9:17 PM
narciso said...: Deborchgrave in his Roman a clef the spike set a near future where a Carter manque had been fooled into allowing the kingdom to fall into sovier hands based on a stratagem based out of yemen.; 11/25/18, 9:19 PM
FullMoon said...: SLA was a bunch of asshole punks. Lesser known members assassinated black superintendent of schools (marcus Foster?)in Oakland-with guns,from the bushes. Didn't have enough guts to face the guy.; 11/25/18, 9:19 PM
narciso said...: He was under the influence of far leftists from an ips like think tank, noe it would be American progress.; 11/25/18, 9:20 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: Creed 2 was a damn fine movie. Pro-Father, Pro-Marriage, Pro-striving for excellence.

Yeah, I'm biased. We were absolutely floored by Rocky - 42 years ago. But it still works!; 11/25/18, 9:28 PM
narciso said...: Michael b Jordan seems to be on a roll:

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/11/anybody_hearing_about_just_how_farleft_the_caravan_organizers_are.html; 11/25/18, 9:30 PM
YoungHegelian said...: @enlighten-New Jersey,

Carter pardoned Patty Hearst.

No. Carter commuted her sentence, but Clinton pardoned her.; 11/25/18, 9:32 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Naw. MjB is way back re normal Ms. Never mind MJJ.

GOAT.

IMHO.; 11/25/18, 9:35 PM
Freeman Hunt said...: The blog marketing goes in phases for me. I'll see the same ad constantly for several weeks, and then it will be something else. There was the Rotimatic, the helicopter service from JFK to the Hamptons, the Glow Forge, and now NordicTrack. Somehow Big Data has the idea that I'm a loaded Indian.; 11/25/18, 9:44 PM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: Well I see Insty has dropped twitter.

Something else I'm glad I never got started with..; 11/25/18, 9:52 PM
Sprezzatura said...: What do Ferrari and planes and big-dough real estate ads mean?

BTW, WTF no chopper stuff? Westcoast thing?

I dunno.

P.S. Indians (incl from India) aren't (usually) ballers. Get yer stereotypes right. Just sayin'. IMHO.; 11/25/18, 9:53 PM
Sprezzatura said...: P.P.S.

Nordic T means they think you think a few pounds gots ta go.

IMHO.; 11/25/18, 9:54 PM
BJM said...: This may only interest Althouse; Lord & Taylor plans to close its 5th Avenue flagship store in January after 104 years. Lord & Taylor is the oldest department store in the country. Headquartered in New York City, it is a subsidiary of the oldest commercial corporation in North America.

Like many in my generation, L&T were the big Kahuna. Their unique print ad style, floor displays and stunning seasonal windows were the reason we chose marketing/advertising.

Next year, the 11-story, Italian Renaissance-style building covering a whole city block will be taken over by WeWork, the workspace leasing company. How f*cking deary.

Sigh.; 11/25/18, 10:03 PM
Sprezzatura said...: This is not anything close to real science: but I've found that Indian (and Sri Lankan) gals like big cocks. I do get the vibe that they wouldn't be into poor big dick, but still the girth/size seems ta be especially appreciated. Even re Asians-non-East.

I dunno.; 11/25/18, 10:08 PM
AustinRoth said...: It is so heartwarming to watch Rodgers and the Packers suck. It fills this Bears fan with happy holiday cheer!; 11/25/18, 11:03 PM
narciso said...: I think these modern day symbionese are not occupy (what) antifa (hence moral authority, and likewise resistance. They are children of chaos.; 11/25/18, 11:40 PM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: At least we got some decent music out of the original SLA.; 11/26/18, 12:00 AM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: The BBC, naturally, does not even mention "alleged stone throwing" or some similar downplaying of that. They just leave it out entirely:

Migrant caravan: Mexico to deport group which stormed US border; 11/26/18, 12:08 AM
Humperdink said...: I see Morning Joe and Evening Mika got married over the weekend. Ceremony performed by Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Commie Pinko). No word on whether they are honeymooning in Russia (nee Soviet Union) as their comrade in arms, Bernie Sanders and his bride, did.; 11/26/18, 5:07 AM
chillblaine said...: Hi there this one is overly long, but goes into setting up your patch panel, thank you for any feedback. PATCH PANELS i skipped past all the bantz to the middle for you.; 11/26/18, 6:44 AM
Trumpit said...: "G.M. to Stop Production and Cut Thousands of Jobs at 5 Plants in North America"

Schlump will go down in the anals of history as the biggest fraud of a president yet.; 11/26/18, 11:13 AM
Jim at said...: "G.M. to Stop Production and Cut Thousands of Jobs at 5 Plants in North America"

Good thing President Precious spent billions of American tax dollars to bail them out in 2009 ...; 11/26/18, 4:32 PM