Althouse: At the Ice Mesa Café...

March 16, 2021

At the Ice Mesa Café...

... you can talk about anything you want.

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iowan2 said...: Lots of analysis of a nut job shooting up a massage parlor.

But China giving the Presidents son $1.5 billion to "manage" throws off $7.5 million EVERY YEAR in managing fees (that's 1/2% managing fee)

No analysis of that.; 3/17/21, 7:50 AM
Lurker21 said...: Whenever there's a new mass murder or serial killer people are a little afraid of whether or not the killer belongs to the same group they do. That's natural. What's not so natural is the glee some have when he belongs to another, opposing group.

When Biden mentioned attacks on Asians, and some jumped on his back understanding his comment as a jab at Trump and MAGA, I didn't join in. I took Biden's comments at face value and didn't read a political attack into them. Even if an attack on Trump supporters was indeed the intent of the Biden team (as it most likely was), one has to take into account that sooner or later, somebody associated with the attacks might actually be associated more with one's own side than with the other. On top of that, the response that "They weren't us; they were Black," was something better avoided, especially when Biden didn't actually accuse Trump supporters of the crimes.; 3/17/21, 7:51 AM
Lurker21 said...: Leon Wieseltier has a new piece out in his new magazine about the virtues of liberalism. It's the same thing he was saying forty years ago, and it's not very convincing if you aren't on the same page with him already. Leon was always overly dramatic and self-dramatizing, and here he rages about anti-liberalism without seeing the faults in liberalism.

Still, we live in a country that has long been "liberal" in the wider sense -- more concerned with liberty than with authority -- and I hope we will continue to be so, liberal in the sense that the Founders were. To do so, we need some liberals and some liberalism (in the older sense) in us. But we don't need more of the kind of militant, unapologetic, unself-critical "radical liberalism" that Wieseltier is endorsing.; 3/17/21, 7:57 AM
Lurker21 said...: Boston Globe intern warned Dzhokhar Tsarnaev about media attention
An intern at the newspaper remembers his high school friend, the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing
By DANIEL D'ADDARIO
APRIL 19, 2013 11:20PM (UTC)

Zolan Kanno-Youngs, an intern at the Boston Globe, has appeared in a video for the newspaper describing his relationship with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the bombings of the Boston Marathon.

Kanno-Youngs, who attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School with Tsarnaev in the class of 2011, said that he'd seen the photo of the suspect circulated by the FBI, but "even if the thought crossed my mind, it didn't ring an alarm. It was too blurry, I thought it could never be."

The Globe intern said that Tsarnaev never discussed politics, and that he was "one of the most peaceful religious people I know." Kanno-Youngs even had reached out to warn Tsarnaev after seeing the FBI photos "just to say be careful because these people might try and think it was you."

D'ya think?

Insightful guy. No wonder he ended up at the Times; 3/17/21, 8:02 AM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: I saw the 1979 eclipse by driving to White Pass on U.S. 12. It got up early that day; it's a three hour drive during good weather. That day U.S. 12 was covered in snow and I spun out once trying to make it to the pass. The weather was nearly solid clouds. It cleared a little during the eclipse, but never enough to see the corona.; 3/17/21, 8:39 AM
Joe Smith said...: "Rush sucks now. It would have to be Steyn or nothing, and they're not trying Steyn."

They've had an entire fucking year at least to figure this out.

This is pure incompetence.

Wilkow is good...doesn't break things down like Rush but he has a lot of fire which I like.; 3/17/21, 9:27 AM
Jim at said...: Well, then you folks should stop your daydreams about civil war.

Once again you fail to realize what type of war it's going to be.

It's not going to be people like me against the military. It's going to be people like me against people like you.; 3/17/21, 1:50 PM