Althouse: At the Magnolia Diner...

May 9, 2020

At the Magnolia Diner...

... the lunch crowd is rolling in.

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stephen cooper said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 5/10/20, 12:25 AM
exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...: J. Farmer said...
"As far as "Big Mommy Government," it wasn't millenials that instituted Social Security in the 1930's. It was millenials who passed the Great Society programs in the 1960's. It wasn't millenials who passed the prescription drug benefit expansion in the 2000's."

Oh, true enough. Government has been steadily expanding since the Progressive Era.

And when I bitch about how shallow the millennials' understanding of history is, particularly the history of the 20th century (Cold War? What's that?), I bear in mind that they were educated by leftists of my own generation. What disturbs me is that there was very little pushback and questioning of the authority figures in their lives. They (generally speaking) accepted what they were told by their teachers and media sages like Jon Stewart.

You are an exception of course. I imagine I could fit all the gay millennial alt-right guys in the country into my living room and still have plenty of legroom on the sofa.; 5/10/20, 12:30 AM
effinayright said...: Mark said...
I'm rich?

Again, news to me. I make half the area average. And paid from voluntary contributions.
************

Ah, a charity recipient.

"Thank you for your pity".
--Homer Simpson; 5/10/20, 12:33 AM
stephen cooper said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 5/10/20, 12:35 AM
stephen cooper said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 5/10/20, 12:40 AM
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narciso said...: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/05/09/stay-alert-boris-johnsons-new-message-nation/; 5/10/20, 12:53 AM
J. Farmer said...: @exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil:

And when I bitch about how shallow the millennials' understanding of history is, particularly the history of the 20th century (Cold War? What's that?), I bear in mind that they were educated by leftists of my own generation. What disturbs me is that there was very little pushback and questioning of the authority figures in their lives. They (generally speaking) accepted what they were told by their teachers and media sages like Jon Stewart.

What you're describing is more a caricature of a subset of millenials than millenials as a whole. The "woke" obsession isn't really a feature of millenials but the following demographic cohort. Even among millenials, there is a split between older and younger millenials due to the former being more likely to be married, have children, and be in a different phase of their careers. There are a number of social variables that are more important in explaining one's political orientation than the year they were born.

I imagine I could fit all the gay millennial alt-right guys in the country into my living room and still have plenty of legroom on the sofa.

Ha. You'd probably be surprised ;); 5/10/20, 1:13 AM
stephen cooper said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 5/10/20, 1:36 AM
Saint Croix said...: Althouse has still not seen a funny Babylon Bee article, so I'm going to try again!

Couple on Keto Plunged Into Sin After Tasting Forbidden Bread; 5/10/20, 4:38 AM
Mr. Forward said...: Where do you play poker?; 5/10/20, 4:42 AM
stephen cooper said...: Beulah Land; 5/10/20, 4:54 AM
Kai Akker said...: Transcript of the interview with Tara Reade is out. It shows a sad, confused person. She was 27 or 28 when this happened, which also occurred after she'd been warned to stop wearing sexy clothes. Reading it, I find it hard to believe she has the right to vote, much less potentially crash a Presidential campaign for the candidate leading in the polls. Feminization of life to an extreme; she still seems more like a child than an adult.; 5/10/20, 6:35 AM
Quaestor said...: Transcript of the interview with Tara Reade is out. It shows a sad... he'd been warned to stop wearing sexy clothes... I find it hard to believe she has the right to vote...

Wow.

I guess all that #MeToo pussy hat handmaiden stuff is totally past its expiration date over at the DNC talking points conference room.; 5/10/20, 7:00 AM
Mark said...: this happened, which also occurred after she'd been warned to stop wearing sexy clothes

Which is consistent with what others have said -- "She asked for it."; 5/10/20, 7:24 AM
Kai Akker said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 5/10/20, 7:31 AM
Kai Akker said...: Mark, it's consistent primarily with someone who, even pushing 30 on Capitol Hill, didn't get it. She still doesn't get it, 27 years later, although it's finally dawning on her a little. See her comments on Putin for further indications.; 5/10/20, 7:34 AM
Anthony said...: I watched a doc on Bettie Page yesterday, “Bettie Page Reveals All”. Utterly fascinating. I’m too young to have been there in her heyday and actually didn’t know much about her save that she was a pinup girl and that certain modern females idolize her. I thought she was from the 40s. Also didn’t know she’d done a lot of nude and semi-porn stuff.

She narrated a lot of it. Much of it was sad like how she matter of factly noted that she let her perv dad molest her but not penetrate like he did to her sisters. The bangs were accidental. She never smoked and rarely drank and was a devoted Christian most of her life but also a paranoid schizophrenic for much of it too. After 1957 or so she disappeared and no one knew where she’d gone or if she was even alive. She did turn up in the early 1990s. Hugh Hefner took her under his wing and gave her a good agent so she could have some control and income from her image. She tried to have children but couldn’t.

But she just had fun modeling and didn’t see what the fuss was all about. It was a job to her.

Her best feature was her eyes. They are ‘laughing eyes’. And smile, beautiful smile.

I find myself thinking of Elton John’s song Candle in the Wind, I wish that I’d known her but I was just a kid. Or a gleam in dad’s eye.

Anyway highly recommended.; 5/10/20, 7:52 AM
Birkel said...: Kai Akker is not here in good faith.
It believes the woman asked for it.
Wearing revealing clothes, it believes, is an invitation to rape.
Disgusting.

Bad faith commenter.; 5/10/20, 9:46 AM
Kai Akker said...: Birkel, I'm still waiting to hear on my application to be the second member of your fan club. I hope that wasn't a No.; 5/10/20, 9:57 AM
Josephbleau said...: “even pushing 30 on Capitol Hill, didn't get it. She still doesn't get it, 27 years later, although it's finally dawning on her a little. See her comments on Putin for further indications.“

I haven’t heard a good nuts and sluts defense since the Clinton years.; 5/10/20, 11:42 AM
Narayanan said...: Can we agree that Social Security was the first implement of don't let a crisis go to waste?; 5/10/20, 1:39 PM
Birkel said...: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52543692

Imagine the Beeb saying the lockdowns are no longer necessary.
In a couple of years, the received wisdom will be lockdowns were a bad idea.; 5/10/20, 2:07 PM
Michael McNeil said...: If the EU had responded to Brexit by launching a military attack against the UK, would that be a civil war?

Others up-thread have responded concerning various aspects causing Brexit to be a less than perfect analogy to the American Civil War (however you call it). But the biggest issue with the situation as stated above, in my view, is that it presumes the exact opposite of what actually occurred during the run-up to the U.S. Civil War: the North did not “launch[] a military attack on” the South — indeed, Lincoln had declared that he would not be the party to initiate overt hostilities. Rather, the South attacked the North.

A closer analogy might be (in an alternate-historical situation) where Europe's military defense arm, NATO, was part of and under the command of the EU — which in this scenario many years earlier had established a coastal defense fort on a (lawfully purchased and paid for) off-shore island. Boris Johnson's government, determined to depart the EU, rather than negotiating the fort's evacuation or letting it be until he did so, suddenly launches a military assault on the base, forcing its surrender.

Thereupon, once overt war was actually underway, the EU proceeded to invade and subdue the aggressor in this case.; 5/10/20, 2:23 PM