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AND: Here's the Chaplin "wrench scene" I talk about — the buttons compared to Melania's buttons first appear at 1:35... but good lord, how can I predict you'll be that impatient? These 2 1/2 minutes are perhaps the greatest sequence of comedy ever filmed:
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The globe scene from The Great Dictator is better, IMO. Actually, with Chaplin, there are so many examples of comic brilliance, it's hard to choose.
Well, that was informative! I just found out I've been mispronouncing Althouse all these years.
Food for thought.
"Where's the consistency?"
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Thank you!
The Lucy and Ethel candy line sequence is also really funny.
The lunch scene that follows this had me gasping for breath when I first saw it. Still does.
The NYC marathon was all run in the park, several laps to make the required distance, not in the streets.
As subjects, Melania's buttons and Meade's phone conversations make the hit parade but Trump's 'law and order' supporters, as driven by the president, are ignored.
Yeah, I know who writes this blog, based upon her personal interests, of course, but there is an election tomorrow. Deliberate law violations encouraged by Trump at this juncture, is far more important to voters to know than Meade making fun of Biden-paid callers in order to entertain Trump fanatics.
gadfly: "Deliberate law violations encouraged by Trump"
You're delusional. Scales. Eyes. Remove.
Somebody told me they like when the podcast gets far afield.
Text, hypertext, context, subtext: I greatly prefer listening to you riff about your blog posts to reading what the vast majority of your dopey commenters have to say about them.
Gadfly,
Other than Inga, you must be the dumbest stump to post here. BLM and Antifa are the Dem’s stormtroopers. That is probably the reason Blacks and Hispanics will vote in larger numbers this election
Melania in a military uniform has world dictators and socialists (redundant) all twitterpated. Another reason for four more years.
I'll just say this once, Althouse. Abstaining from voting is neither courageous nor principled. You don't have to love a candidate or adhere a million percent to his political philosophy in order to vote for him. It is your duty, which you appear to wish to neglect, to decide which candidate is less bad than the other and cast your vote. Anything else is cowardly.
I was fascinated recently when you recited one of DJT's speeec recently,
your tone and rhythm were spot on, yet not exactly Trumpian there was a je ne sais quoi to it.
Here is Patton after the war.
Consider the spirit of the public remarks, and quite frankly the verbiage......."remember"....
https://youtu.be/uYjnWXFTQkM?t=41
NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...
Well, that was informative! I just found out I've been mispronouncing Althouse all these years.
Same here!
First time visitor to the podcast (actually, first time visitor to ANY podcast) - I wanted to Althouse's description of the Meade/Biden phone call. However, I didn't want to add another app, I listened on my phone and couldn't figure out how to fast speed to the end.
Oh well, at least I've been pronouncing Meade's name correctly.
Biden's Bunglers.
We should update her Wikipedia page to give a fuller view of her views on Obama. Seems like Wikipedia kind of cherry picked.
In January 2009, remarking about Obama, she wrote: "He really is a solid, normal person who remained grounded in the middle of all this craziness. And I like to think that, now that he's President, with his steely nerve, his intelligence, and his groundedness, he'll do the job that must be done. The trickery is over."[8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Althouse
It reminds me of the joke about the guy who on dying chose to go to Hell because the brochure was so nice.
Modern Times is very apt for our modern times. If Chaplin was lampooning man's existence in an industrialized world, we are today confronted with the relentless absurdities created by the post-industrial world.
Though I am not a fan of Chaplin's work, he is undoubtedly a genius. I am partial to one of his heirs, Lucille Ball. Her chocolate factory riff on this skit took the hilarity to another level. Physical comedy is extraordinarily difficult to do well, and few did it as well as Ball.
@Tim: "He really is a solid, normal person who remained grounded"
Pragmatic Barry O! "Solid"! Grounded! Doing the job that must be done!
Makes you wonder, doesn't it.
As we've all learned over the years, people can be brilliant, yet lack any common sense.
Maybe we should all be happy that Althouse reasoned herself into abstaining.
Galumphing towards the apocalypse
"It had to end sometime." -Riddick
Humperdink said...
gadfly: "Deliberate law violations encouraged by Trump"
You're delusional. Scales. Eyes. Remove.
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you need to be more specific - which perspective ?
if this is (St.) Augustinian - remove eyes!
if this rational - remove scales!
Althouse can write in Jill Ellen Stein this time.
And send her $9.67 to contest the result in a couple of weeks.
@Narayanan. Pluck no, remove yes.
Maybe we should all be happy that Althouse reasoned herself into abstaining.
11/2/20, 8:32 PM
No such thing. She wanted to vote for Team D and the end of the Republic, because tra la la, why not? But not being Jewish, she has no out for the oath she so rashly took. The oath was to not vote for Biden if he didn't withdraw his race-baiting lies regarding Charlottesville, and in fact he doubled down. So she was committed by her ego (honor, pshaw, she spits on the notion of honor) to not supporting Biden, for that reason only.
As for why not support PDT, I haven't read that explanation yet. She has denied it is because of his manner. So seemingly it would be one of two things:
She doesn't like his policies;
She is afraid of the bien pensants of Madison, and never being able to lunch in the town again.
--If the latter, I encourage her to vote for President Trump anyway - and I advise voting R down the line for adjacent reasons - and just lie to us, or not tell us, this time. It would be doing the right thing, and not claiming the credit, which would be unlike her, but OTOH no baseballs in her yard.
When I call her "cold coward" (after Stephen Crane), I mean not that she fears for her life (she did after all finally buy, and train on, a pistol), but that she lacks the courage of her convictions, or to have convictions, to explain them. If she "has might" (ha!) why is she hiding? Risible. Contemptible.
It's fortunate that one can enjoy the blog for the commenters and not the hostess. I no longer enjoy Ann Althouse. Even so, I've been visiting and commenting less, not that anyone should take note, but perhaps I am, and will not be, alone. It's more about her these days, and that's just what I'm not interested in anymore.
You need to learn to separate yourself from your writing, Althouse; at least, if you ever hope to be any good. But then, you've never been about the good.
I know this is a silly comment but your voice doesn't sound anything like I imagined.
The verb "galumph" first appeared in Jabberwocky;
He left it dead,
And with its head
He went galumphing back.
BTW, Gadfly, thanks for that link, to The Bulwark. I have, of course, heard much about it, but I had never actually visited the site. The frank, in-your-face dishonesty is bracing, I must say.
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