Althouse: At the Mouse-in-the-Headlights Café...

March 1, 2019

At the Mouse-in-the-Headlights Café...

... where do you think you're going?

65 comments:

traditionalguy said...: Nocturnal; 3/1/19, 7:46 PM
Inga...Allie Oop said...: On his way to CPAC.; 3/1/19, 7:52 PM
stephen cooper said...: In paradisum; 3/1/19, 8:01 PM
narciso said...: Does this work:

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/irans_foreign_minister_resigns.html; 3/1/19, 8:03 PM
stephen cooper said...: mures inclusi essent

preach it Brother; 3/1/19, 8:03 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: I see what you did there Professor. She fell right into it too. Second comment. Brilliant!!!!; 3/1/19, 8:04 PM
Hagar said...: The asylum rules need to be tightened up. I think the present ones were voted in with a burst of virtue signaling and bad conscience following WWII when it came to light how the US had refused to accept Jews fleeing the Holocaust in Europe and nobody protested. Maybe also that the only noticeable refugees later were the Cubans and we were all for taking them in since it irritated Castro.

But asylum really is a serious matter and granting it should be reserved for refugees fleeing real persecution in their homelands. It is not that hard to tell the real from the fake.

The present rules for admitting and processing asylum seekers are just made to order for the left to tie the system up in knots with lawfare, which is exactly what they are doing, and it is all fake.; 3/1/19, 8:05 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: A successful mouse indeed.; 3/1/19, 8:05 PM
Anonymous said...: I'm moving into the Coconut Grove Mutiny tomorrow, AKA Hotel Scarface, per Roben Farzad.; 3/1/19, 8:08 PM
narciso said...: No wonder McCabe only devoted one sentence to this event:
https://www.wtsp.com/mobile/article/news/regional/florida/pulse-shooting-ballistics-tests-cant-prove-who-fired-fatal-shots/67-1d7e17f9-799b-445e-a501-6d06419e8cda; 3/1/19, 8:08 PM
alanc709 said...: Tomorrow's mouse? https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2019/03/01/Singing-mice-help-scientists-understand-fast-paced-human-conversation/9731551450736/; 3/1/19, 8:18 PM
Milwaukie guy said...: My chickens are trying to kill me. They gave me Parrot Fever. There are only about 10 cases yearly in the U.S. I spent $8 on lottery tickets. I feel lucky.; 3/1/19, 8:22 PM
Michael said...: Unknown
I spent a lot of time in that hotel in the 80s. At that time every room was decorated differently and I seem to remember always landing in a room with a nautical theme facing Sailboat Bay. Then the Grand Bay hotel was developed with a Regine's on the top floor and I moved over there for a while. But I missed the views and the clientele of The Mutiny and moved back. That decade in Coconut Grove, a decade in which I enjoyed all that was on offer, almost did me in. The scene operated on Latin hours and I was hard at work so my morning laps around the Grove were torture but required. They saved me. An interesting time in my life. The book has it right.; 3/1/19, 8:22 PM
buwaya said...: From the Tales of the Other City -

Maybe an Oakland ghost story. Or it should be.

I saw this for myself the other night. I had occasion to be walking down Grand Avenue in the evening, past the Oakland Cathedral, which is across the street from Lake Merritt. This was built around 2008, long after my time in Oakland in the early nineties. The thing is one of those modernist monstrosities, made of steel and glass, shaped rather like a cooling tower to which someone has taken a cake-knife and cut off a couple of slices.

The unique bit is a projected 100-foot or so image of Christ, behind the altar. It is a ghostly thing. The unique part is that at night this figure is also projected out the back, and an even more ghostly image can be seen from Grand Avenue.

Oakland Cathedral by night

Now, so far so good, cool even. But from Grand Avenue, and even more so from the sidewalk on the cathedral side, one is looking up into the inner angle of that cake-slice, which distorts Christ. The halo turns into rams horns, and the face becomes...bestial.

Yeah. The last thing one expects to see on a Cathedral. The picture linked above does not really do justice to the impression from the sidewalk. Was this a mistake or....?; 3/1/19, 8:33 PM
Molly said...: (eaglebeak)

Another excellent mouse, appealing and furtive at the same time.; 3/1/19, 8:37 PM
stephen cooper said...: Yes the artist spent more time on todays mouse than on yesterdays

but each creature in the eye of the human creature (and even Jesus was a human creature, in a way, remember that) that looks at it

is no more or less than our younger sibling in Christ

Rats love me, because I understand unselfish kindness; 3/1/19, 8:39 PM
Ryan said...: Picasso had his harlequins, Althouse has her rodents.; 3/1/19, 8:40 PM
Big Mike said...: Mice don't freeze in the light the way deer do. They scurry to safety. Especially when you come out to the shed to get the John Deere lawn tractor and discover mice have built a nest in the seat. They don't stare at you to frightened to move. They move at a high rate of speed to holes in the ground and gaps between the 6" x 6" timbers that make up the shed base.

Pet mice can escape their cages.; 3/1/19, 8:40 PM
stephen cooper said...: Big Mike - well yeah, you are right ....

but these are dreamland cartoon mice, who are a lot like real mice but also not quite the same

Preach it brother; 3/1/19, 8:43 PM
stephen cooper said...: Preach it brother anyway; 3/1/19, 8:43 PM
D. said...: mouse traps demand equal time!; 3/1/19, 8:44 PM
iowan2 said...: Remember when the leftists spent 2 weeks attempting to lie about small tax returns? When they said the small tax returns meant they didn't get a tax cut, like they were promised?
It was all a lie.

But now, the truth is tax returns are higher than last year.

Leftist will memory hole all this fake idiocy.

We all know they will do it again, the first chance they get.

Shh, quiet. Let's change the subject and lie about President Trump being a meanie

I know there will never be a retraction. That would require a level of honor the left has never known.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/03/in-devastating-blow-to-democrat-talking-point-tax-refunds-are-up-this-year/#more-275400; 3/1/19, 8:49 PM
n.n said...: The ghost of BOPPs future.; 3/1/19, 8:53 PM
FullMoon said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 3/1/19, 9:01 PM
Big Mike said...: @nn, okay, I give up. What does BOPP stand for?; 3/1/19, 9:15 PM
Mark said...: Another week goes by where two women of color continue to be denied their right to be heard by giving public testimony and the people of Virginia are denied their right to know if their lieutenant governor, Justin Fairfax, is a rapist or not -- and every statement and action he has taken seems to suggest a consciousness of guilt.; 3/1/19, 9:16 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: Freshly squeezed grapefruit, 1.5 oz of Sky Vodka, splash of club soda, 1 fresh mint leaf.

If you had a rough week, it'll put you in a good mood.; 3/1/19, 9:23 PM
Big Mike said...: Here's what a white mouse looks like when it's shocked.; 3/1/19, 9:25 PM
n.n said...: BOPPs = Babies of Planned Parenthood a la POWs. Perhaps a Geneva Convention to establish a common standard of treatment for survivors. Baby steps.; 3/1/19, 9:29 PM
Titus said...: I live in one of the most densly populated and expensive parts of the country. Somerville, which is 2 blocks from me is number 2 densely populated, Cambridge is 5, and Boston is 8. We live on top of each other in tiny million dollar condos. We have most educated workforce too. How fab is that?

How fab is your city?

We are some of the most in shape Americans too. Few fatties here.; 3/1/19, 9:29 PM
n.n said...: re: BOPPs

There was a train car of sequestered BOPPs uncovered in the desert, where the human remains resembled this ghostly mouse, or an extraterrestrial life form from an X-Files episode, which was surely inspired by this discover.; 3/1/19, 9:33 PM
Grant said...: Buwaya,

Fascinating. But might it not be too much to expect the architects to have considered how it would appear from that angle? Widespread evidence suggests most architects aren’t very astute. Nevertheless, while I finally made peace with the LA cathedral after several visits, I’m pretty sure there’s no peace to be had in Oakland.; 3/1/19, 9:33 PM
Browndog said...: I can't find any full CPAC speeches on the internet. 1-2 minute clips. Found an NBC feed from 1000 ft. away, with muffled audio and worse video.

For all I know it could be a CPAC/licensing issue--what I do know is this is the first time I've not been able to find a CPAC speech on-line.; 3/1/19, 9:44 PM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: Tomorrow's mouse? https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2019/03/01/Singing-mice-help-scientists-understand-fast-paced-human-conversation/9731551450736/

"♬Here I come to save the Day!♬"; 3/1/19, 9:56 PM
William said...: In an effort to escape pc drivel, I've been watching some of Shakespeare's plays. The Hollow Crown, a BBC production of Richard Ii and the Henriad was excellent. There was one decapitation scene that was worthy of GOT. No arterial blood spurts but, nonetheless, quite realistic. No nudity, but loads of great poetry........There was a certain amount of pc. When you saw a black actor, you knew he was going to suffer an injustice and/or die a noble death....Richard II was portrayed as a languid homosexual. That wasn't pc, but he evolved into a Christlike figure and, finally, into a San Sebastián type martyr, so I guess that makes it okay......Shakespeare was not one to speak truth to power. Richard II put down the Peasant's Revolt. Shakespeare doesn't even mention it. Shakespeare speaks ill of the baseborn and the whoresons, but back then they were all white so it's all good to dump on them.; 3/1/19, 10:01 PM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: Shakespeare was not one to speak truth to power.

Don't know if he wanted to, but at any rate he would not have been allowed to. All plays presented had to be approved by The Master Of The Revels, a government official.; 3/1/19, 10:11 PM
buwaya said...: I have no idea if there is peace in Oakland.
All I know is they have Satan staring out the back of their Cathedral.; 3/1/19, 10:11 PM
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Browndog said...: buwaya-

I've seen that same image in the gay parades, and more importantly in the storming of Mass by "gay rights activist" during the Prop 8 debate in Catholic Churches.; 3/1/19, 10:20 PM
narciso said...: Well he was a Tudor propagandists or at relied on the likes of ones like Morton, but he was also catholic in a protestant nation.; 3/1/19, 10:21 PM
narciso said...: I saw some of those segments on PBS thsy were very well done. Violence was not an abstract notion, of course the real details have been obscured by hagiographers masquerading as historians.; 3/1/19, 10:31 PM
stephen cooper said...: there are no protestant nations there are no catholic nations there are just all of the losers under the sky ....
trust me
God loves us all but that does not mean we love each other the way we should
SAD

TITUS MY CITY IS HEAVEN ON EARTH

or at least it ought to be, it is not but it ought to be

BOPP is babies of planned parenthood, that alternate reality where people care about each other is where BOPP is real, and trust me that alternate reality is more real than this one

let me spend a little more time explaining it, BOPP are the chilluns who are the little chiluns who live in the USA that ought to be and that is not ,,,,

and Fairfax is in limbo, no indictment yet but no public absolution either.; 3/1/19, 10:33 PM
buwaya said...: Worth a read, if you have the slightest interest in San Francisco. Or in the middle class urban experience of the last forty years. And such entities as Titus.

"Tales of the City", Armistead Maupin. I'm reading it again after @35 years. I came to the city myself when the mid-part of the series was still running in the SF Examiner. The first book or two are the best, for the yuppie-San Francisco charm fluff.

Its much more interesting in hindsight. With context, it, even in its earliest bits, is bittersweet. Mary Ann Singleton is well named. The observational humor and endless soap opera is tinged with tragedy. There is a stream of Mary Ann Singletons coming into the City even now. I have dated many Mary Ann Singletons. Most are doomed.

The city, and the society it supports, is in its overall context, a sort of human fly-trap. The characters and the readers are charmed, on one level, by the quirks and the drama, but the result is that there aren't really any survivors. The flies buzz away, but cannot escape.; 3/1/19, 10:35 PM
narciso said...: Well maupin intended it to be semi autobiographical, San Francisco seems like am odd place a lot of raw intellect and wealth created, in certain corners but not a whole lot of common sense, and I think I'm being most charitable.; 3/1/19, 10:47 PM
StephenFearby said...: NY Post March 1, 2019
Our $43K-a-month UES townhouse was a rodent-infested nightmare: suit

'A Georgia couple says they moved to the Big Apple in July and began renting the home of their dreams — a stunning Manhattan townhouse — only to learn it was a nightmarish hellhole overrun with vermin.

“On the very first exciting day of their $43,000 per month Manhattan townhouse mansion rental, the Mays discovered they had a rodent problem,” says Darrell and Tara Mays’ Manhattan Supreme Court suit, in which they accuse owners John and Elizabeth Robertshaw of fraud.

“The ‘extraordinary and truly rare’ Mansion was extraordinarily and truly infested with vermin,” the suit says of the sprawling 10,000-square-foot pad at 166 E. 81st and 179 E. 80th streets.

“Over the next six months, multiple attempts were made in vain to battle the severe infestation, with the Mays finding themselves continuously disposing of dead rodents, dodging live rodents, cleaning rodent droppings and living with the toxic odor caused when unlocated dead rodents decompose,” the suit says.

“Indeed, the Mays ultimately became prisoners to the infestation and were forced to choose between staying close to home to be available to endure the gruesome and repugnant chore of disposing of the newly-dead or enjoying a vacation only to return to the toxic stench of decomposed vermin.”

The lawsuit chronicles the couple’s alleged “months-long rodent odyssey,” and the veritable parade of exterminators and repair people who tracked through the home on a daily basis in order to wage their vermin war.

While it was impossible to live in the manse, it was even harder to leave — because it meant returning to piles of dead rodents and the smell of their decaying corpses, the suit says.

All the while, the Robertshaws repeatedly claimed they were “unaware of the severity of the issue,” despite bags of ready traps that had been left behind, the suit says...'

https://nypost.com/2019/03/01/our-43k-a-month-ues-townhouse-was-a-rodent-infested-nightmare-suit/

(Like Amazon) The Pied Piper of Hamelin has refused to come to New York City.; 3/1/19, 11:02 PM
mockturtle said...: Buwaya links to: Oakland Cathedral by night

That is really creepy, buwaya, and decidedly Satanic. It's as bad as the Denver airport.; 3/1/19, 11:03 PM
Will Cate said...: Am I being charged with a crime? Am I free to go?; 3/1/19, 11:06 PM
FullMoon said...: A boy born weighing 268 grams (9.45 oz) was sent home healthy after months in the neonatal care unit in Tokyo. He's the smallest child to ever be born and survive (telegraph.uk); 3/1/19, 11:21 PM
Yancey Ward said...: That mouse is tharn.; 3/1/19, 11:34 PM
Ty said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 3/1/19, 11:35 PM
Ty said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 3/1/19, 11:37 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: "Quo Vadis" Topo Bianco?; 3/1/19, 11:56 PM
Static Ping said...: About those tax returns, do not be surprised if the final number indicates that tax returns are down from last year. The argument was always a dumb one though, since "tax return" and "taxes paid" are different things. It is quite possible to pay less in taxes and get a smaller return because less money was taken out the paycheck. There is also the matter that smart tax payers in high tax states prepaid as much of their property tax as possible last year to get the maximum benefit, so they should get a significantly smaller tax return just by that fact alone. Of course, said tax payers probably expected that.

It can be quite the shock when the taxpayer gets a lot less than expected. People often plan around the tax return. Most likely they will not get surprised again next year at least.; 3/2/19, 12:37 AM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Gjoing towaard spellig Gandopolph; 3/2/19, 12:47 AM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Gotta appologize My [arsnios du[erceded

https://cumulus.hillsdale.edu/Buckley/; 3/2/19, 12:56 AM
jaydub said...: "About those tax returns..." To be clear, the TDS propaganda was about lower tax refunds, not tax returns. A tax return is the documentation one submits to the IRS, the tax refund is the difference in the taxes you paid versus the tax you owed as indicated by the tax return. In point of fact tax refunds are up this year according to the IRS.; 3/2/19, 5:04 AM
stevew said...: "While it was impossible to live in the manse, it was even harder to leave — because it meant returning to piles of dead rodents and the smell of their decaying corpses, the suit says."

Why didn't they just leave and cease paying the $43k per month? I guess I should go read the article.; 3/2/19, 5:30 AM
rhhardin said...: I just worked the Galapagos Islands, noteworthy for the James Tate poem The Blue Booby
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/31197/the-blue-booby; 3/2/19, 6:45 AM
Professional lady said...: What does BOPP mean?; 3/2/19, 7:10 AM
Chuck said...: “President Bullshit” makes his debut at CPAC.; 3/2/19, 11:54 AM
n.n said...: BOPPs or Babies of Planned Parenthood a la POWs, inspired by the affirmative action to withdraw support from late-term and post-birth human survivors of abortion rites carried out under the ethical umbrella of the population control protocol.; 3/2/19, 12:10 PM
walter said...: No Chuck. Obama isn't getting anywhere near CPAC.

However,

"If you're not familiar with it, The Bulwark is that new site from Trump bête noire Bill Kristol, and its humble motto is "Conserving Conservatism." And this weekend, Kristol sent a socialist and abortion enthusiast named Molly Jong-Fast to CPAC to sneer at everybody."
https://pjmedia.com/trending/in-what-sense-is-the-bulwark-conserving-conservatism/; 3/2/19, 1:15 PM
Chuck said...: Yes, walter; I have been reading her postings from CPAC.

I also saw the news that Jonah Goldberg and Steve Hayes are starting up a new conservative commentary outlet.; 3/2/19, 1:51 PM
Scott Patton said...: Mouse on the run; 3/2/19, 4:09 PM
narciso said...: It seems as illconsidered as culture 11, what exactly.; 3/2/19, 6:11 PM