Althouse: At the Sit-Next-to-the-Queen Café...

June 3, 2019

At the Sit-Next-to-the-Queen Café...

... you can be your usual charming self.

(Photo source: Andrew Dunn.)

62 comments:

Bay Area Guy said...: I guess the bearded fellow is the King. In the modern era? Might not be so clear.; 6/3/19, 9:54 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: that face you get when the Activa kicks in; 6/3/19, 9:59 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: ...and you need to use the throne; 6/3/19, 10:05 PM
Original Mike said...: Sit quietly and carry a big stick.; 6/3/19, 10:11 PM
Narr said...: Guy buggers off for hundreds of years, I'd look pissed too.

Narr
Gonna get medieval on someone's heinie; 6/3/19, 10:19 PM
William said...: I saw Deadwood the Movie. I had liked the series, but the movie was disappointing. It was written by David Mi!cher who wrote it whilst deteriorating from Alzheimer's. I feel like I'm booing Timmy, but it didn't have the bite and the bile of the original Swearingen was kind of cuddly. In keeping with the #me too era, he decided to make the brothel a dance hall. Maybe he could hire a girl named Kitty to hang out there and tell the Marshal to be careful and thus complete the cycle of rebirth and renewal.; 6/3/19, 10:26 PM
Helen said...: The king face. I don't like the king face.

Helen,
xxx hobby lobby coupon entire purchase xxx; 6/3/19, 10:37 PM
walter said...: Wooden expressions; 6/3/19, 10:44 PM
BJM said...: Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine?; 6/3/19, 10:52 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: "Thou wert the most qualified!!"

" Why am I not 50 cubits ahead! 'Twas MY TURN !!"; 6/3/19, 10:58 PM
Heartless Aztec said...: Mate in two.; 6/3/19, 10:59 PM
eddie willers said...: Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine?

Shhhh...Althouse hasn't watch this (wonderful) movie yet.; 6/3/19, 11:28 PM
Quaestor said...: I like that face/palm gesture the queen is making. With those shocked eyes it must reflect her thoughts, Shit! Shit! Shit! I married a hipster! I just noticed a man-bun under his crown. Well, there go my eggs...; 6/3/19, 11:30 PM
Quaestor said...: Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine?

Possibly, but the Norwegian style would suggest less well-known royals were the models.; 6/3/19, 11:32 PM
StephenFearby said...: Latest manifestation of political correctness:

DC
DODGEBALL IS A TOOL OF OPPRESSION, RESEARCHERS SAY

'A team of Canadian researchers are set to lecture teachers about the moral dangers of dodgeball, a sport they say teaches kids to single out and violently dominate weaker students.

'Dodgeball is a tool of “oppression” and “miseducative,” the researchers say in the abstract of a paper cited by the National Post, which they will present in Vancouver at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, a summit for thousands of academics happening in early June. The “hidden curriculum” it teaches students is out of step with the larger curriculum, they argue.

“As we consider the potential of physical education to empower students by engaging them in critical and democratic practices, we conclude that the hidden curriculum is antithetical to this project, even when it reflects the choices of the strongest and most agile students,” the abstract reads.

he researchers add that dodgeball “reinforces the five faces of oppression” as defined by the late University of Chicago theorist Iris Marion Young. Those are marginalization, powerlessness, helplessness of those perceived as weaker, exploitation and cultural domination, according to the abstract. The story in the National Post is part of a larger series on the most interesting research to be presented at the conference.

“Despite the fact that many physical educators understand their vital role in helping students develop robust, equal, productive relationships and critical awareness, their practices on the ground do not always reflect this agenda,” they write. “We suggest that this tension becomes sharply visible in the common practice of allowing students to play dodgeball.'

https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/03/dodgeball-oppression-canadian-researchers/

Of course, this could just be a hoax article of the type written by James A. Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose, and Peter Boghossian (the academics who successfully carried out publishing hoaxes that targeted far-out politically correct scholarly journals).

But I doubt it.; 6/3/19, 11:54 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: dodgethis!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQtIearBLAE; 6/4/19, 12:05 AM
Lawrence Person said...: It's the latest Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update.; 6/4/19, 12:27 AM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: a more animated clown car

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRusCUI9dwc; 6/4/19, 12:52 AM
Yancey Ward said...: Dodgeball is a sport of violence, exclusion and degradation. So, when you're picking players in gym class, remember to pick the bigger, stronger kids for your team. That way you can gang up on the weaker ones, like Chuck.; 6/4/19, 1:10 AM
Jaq said...: He took away her rolling pin before she could do him any harm.; 6/4/19, 4:42 AM
readering said...: Interesting David Brooks column on generational divide in party politics.; 6/4/19, 5:09 AM
Jaq said...: nteresting David Brooks column on generational divide in party politics.

Is it a “divide” or more of a “crease”?

That’s a joke you won’t get readering, but it explains why a lot of people don’t take him seriously. Go ahead google his name with “crease."; 6/4/19, 5:12 AM
Jaq said...: Deadwood the novel by Pete Dexter is a masterpiece.; 6/4/19, 5:15 AM
readering said...: Hmm. Brooks predicted in 2006 that Obama would become president. Brooks in 2019 predicts younger voters will remain overwhelmingly Democrats as get older.; 6/4/19, 5:23 AM
Jaq said...: That’s some solid reasoning right there!; 6/4/19, 5:29 AM
Jaq said...: It’s true though that our kids have been indoctrinated to like shiny pretty things over substance, and Obama was sure shiny and pretty.; 6/4/19, 5:33 AM
Francisco D said...: dodgeball “reinforces the five faces of oppression” as defined by the late University of Chicago theorist Iris Marion Young

Children must avoid experiencing any negative feelings whatsoever so they are well prepared for competing in the real world.

I suspect that the totalitarians want to raise a docile and unquestioning population.; 6/4/19, 5:34 AM
Quaestor said...: Brooks predicted in 2006 that Obama would become president.

Brooks predicted Ted Cruz would face Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Clinton would beat him soundly.

Hmm that for a few minutes, readering.; 6/4/19, 5:42 AM
readering said...: So agreement that Obama visuals make a strong impression.; 6/4/19, 5:46 AM
readering said...: Apparently enough Republicans feared Clinton would beat Cruz soundly ....; 6/4/19, 5:48 AM
stevew said...: The best dodgeball teammate is the small and swift, not the big and strong.; 6/4/19, 5:49 AM
Jaq said...: I figured that Trump was the only guy nasty enough to take on Hillary and her enablers in the MSM. I didn’t even know about her CIA enablers then.

Remember when nobody was allowed to talk about Bill Clinton’s little peccadilloes like forcible rape? Half the country was part of a conspiracy of silence.; 6/4/19, 5:53 AM
Quaestor said...: readering wrote: Apparently enough Republicans feared Clinton would beat Cruz soundly ....

Anybody but you would wonder why Pinch Sulzberger's "conservative" mannequin has any cred as a political prognosticator after missing that obvious conclusion.; 6/4/19, 5:56 AM
Jaq said...: “Time’s have changed about what you can do to a woman against her will. And that’s a good thing!” -WJBC

No Billy Blythe, forcible rape and sexual harassment were never OK, the only thing that has changes is that you finally can see that people might take your victims seriously.; 6/4/19, 5:57 AM
Jaq said...: The best dodgeball teammate has a good arm. But it’s best if the kids grow up with anxiety disorders as a generational epidemic on account of never having successfully faced any kind of adversity.; 6/4/19, 5:59 AM
readering said...: Young people, Republican appeal in 2019, anybody?; 6/4/19, 6:01 AM
stevew said...: That couple in the photo seem to be in the silence phase of a dispute over who was supposed to recall the warder from the rear gate.; 6/4/19, 6:03 AM
stevew said...: Good point by Nobody.

Would anyone prevented from experiencing defeat and disappointment in youthful games ever aspire to going on Jeopardy?; 6/4/19, 6:07 AM
Jaq said...: readering said...
Young people, Republican appeal in 2019, anybody

Jobs? I don’t know about where you are, but you can’t get out of your car her in the US without tripping over a help wanted sign. I was a Democrat when I was young too, an unemployed Democrat until Reagan came along.; 6/4/19, 6:08 AM
Danno said...: Are you talking about the David Brooks who was all excited about a crease in someone's pants?; 6/4/19, 6:08 AM
readering said...: A lot going on in those comments.; 6/4/19, 6:10 AM
readering said...: Keep up Danno.; 6/4/19, 6:12 AM
Jaq said...: Whose side are the Democrats on when 250K “migrants” in Mexico are bound here to file 99% bogus asylum claims?

Whose side are the Democrats on when Trump is fighting the Chinese from co-opting our economy and moving high paying manufacturing jobs overseas?

Whose side are Democrats on when it comes to the price of gas and affordable heat in winter and reliable air conditioning in summer?

Whose side are Democrats on when it comes to choosing between minimum wage jobs bolting on Chinese made solar panels or high paying energy extraction jobs?

Those are all issues that mommy and daddy worry about, so nothing bad will happen, right?

Fortunately schools don’t teach economics any longer so Dems are safe.; 6/4/19, 6:16 AM
Karen of Texas said...: When I was a wee sprout, we played dodgeball on the playground - not in gym class. Why must adults interfere and organize and oversee everything?! Anyway, if you sucked, you just didn't play. Most children are capable of self evaluation in such matters - or quickly learn the necessary lesson. So no picking on the weak, powerless, marginalized...the stupid, however...

Next up, Red Rover!; 6/4/19, 6:18 AM
readering said...: Glad to see we're off sex and on economics.; 6/4/19, 6:19 AM
Danno said...: Blogger readering said...Keep up Danno.

When she said conservative Republican I had my doubts it was the same guy.

Keep up, readering!!; 6/4/19, 6:20 AM
narciso said...: Deadwood is based on real character like willian Randolph Hearst's father who made a fortune in metals into a us Senate seat, which in turn financed the sons newspapers; 6/4/19, 6:21 AM
narciso said...: Or not:

https://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/285822/why-jews-should-pay-attention-to-the-recent-debate-rocking-american-conservatism; 6/4/19, 6:23 AM
Jaq said...: Forcible rape isn’t “sex”

Here, read the evidence in the liberal magazine Slate and decide for yourself.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/1999/03/is-juanita-broaddrick-telling-the-truth.html

My favorite excuse was that you couldn’t believe Broaddrick because she was a battered spouse going through a divorce, and so instead of using her bloody lip to get a restraining order on her soon to be ex husband, she made up a story about Bill Clinton, then got five witnesses to back her up even though they could have gone to jail for lying to federal investigators, that was a funny one!

But Trump mentioning that women let stars do things to them, now that was a real issue!

I just watched a movie, recently out, called Funny Story, and all through the movie this older TV star kept getting fucked by younger women. Hmmmm....; 6/4/19, 6:25 AM
Jaq said...: I still am amazed at the denial of Democrats that Bill Clinton is a forcible rapist, even though the stories have been following him since Oxford. Why didn’t he finish? Why was he kicked out? Oh yeah, and at Yale there was a story too. The man is a sociopath.; 6/4/19, 6:27 AM
Jaq said...: All of Blaisly Ford’s witnesses turned on her, none of Broaddrick’s five witnesses did, even though they faced prison. She only admitted she was raped in the first place when she was finally asked under oath and threat of prison for lying. I am sure that her lawyer advised her at that point to be truthful.; 6/4/19, 6:41 AM
Kevin said...: Rather than address border security, the House is focusing on letting everyone know that if you can get here they want to make you a citizen.

They’re whining about the price of an avocado going up, but don’t want you to consider what it’s going to cost to provide education and medical care to anyone who comes.; 6/4/19, 6:42 AM
Kevin said...: I still am amazed at the denial of Democrats that Bill Clinton is a forcible rapist, even though the stories have been following him since Oxford.

Are you kidding? There are women willing to be raped as long as abortion on demand is maintained.

Some would argue they owe it to him.; 6/4/19, 6:45 AM
narciso said...: Do they apologize?
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/06/03/us-journalists-fake-news-north-korean-official-purged/?fbclid=IwAR10BtTJhnNzUMY-GI2ojmly-8gEuqw6tjKdwA5XFnjQY--1jZ2LOxAuvYI; 6/4/19, 6:45 AM
Hagar said...: Jerry Nadler apparently is going to call John Dean as the first witness to testify before his committee.
But can they keep it straight as to which President is under scrutiny?; 6/4/19, 6:58 AM
narciso said...: They could try to be correct:

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/26/donald-trump-pull-feds-out-k-12-education/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR2BUI1mXhWWJJgc59IMgtHLPEmyJOweX5QYwD5E95KyJTaNmmL4c1qx4IY; 6/4/19, 7:02 AM
BudBrown said...: Queen looks to me like she's just realized she married an incel.; 6/4/19, 8:41 AM
Friendo said...: Narciso - great links, especially @0623. Thank you.; 6/4/19, 8:50 AM
JHapp said...: An empathetic king and queen, something you don't see every day, but the way it should be.; 6/4/19, 8:58 AM
Birkel said...: readering is so sure Democrats want to talk about jobs and the economy that no presidential candidate except Trump is talking about jobs and the economy.

Circles that won't square for $500, Alex.; 6/4/19, 10:33 AM
todd galle said...: I saw that pair last summer in Edinburgh. We brought back the Museum Replicas of the set.; 6/4/19, 12:12 PM
Nina said...: "It is a useful accomplishment to be able to say no, but surely it is the essence of amiability to prefer to say yes where it is possible. There is something wanting in a man who does not hate himself whenever he is constrained to say no." - Robert Louis Stevenson, "Henry David Thoreau: His Character and Opinions"; 6/5/19, 7:11 AM