Althouse: At the Coot Café...

April 12, 2022

At the Coot Café...

... you can talk all night.

28 comments:

Josephbleau said...: I am now an old coot. cest la vie.; 4/12/22, 7:29 PM
gilbar said...: i like coots!; 4/12/22, 7:33 PM
MadisonMan said...: I am happy to read that Gibson Bakery's judgement against Oberlin College has been upheld.; 4/12/22, 7:38 PM
Rollo said...: In my day adolescent misfits were contented just to go to films about Transylvanian transsexual transvestites and throw bread at the screen. Nowadays every young outcast wants to actually be Frank-N-Furter.

And I gather "good grooming" means something different than it did in mother's day. Thank heavens we have a president who is so out of it that he thinks mirrored aviator sunglasses are still cool, or I would be completely lost in today's world.; 4/12/22, 7:52 PM
David Begley said...: John Hinderaker at Power Line re CNN Plus, “For perspective, that is a small fraction of what we get here on Power Line, and we have no costs other than $900 a month for web hosting. The red ink at CNN must be knee-deep.”

I bet Althouse does close to 10k readers per day.

Use the Althouse AMZN portal or PayPal. Althouse blog is the greatest bargain EVER!; 4/12/22, 8:04 PM
rhhardin said...: Is there any content in the new Bloggingheads with Marianne Williamson The Politics of Love?

Humoring a woman who has her thing?; 4/12/22, 8:19 PM
Breezy said...: Happiness is walking 1.5 miles one way through the woods to find a perfect spot that enables beautiful pics of a dozen great blue heron nests, complete with said busily nesting herons. Squawking swans and geese did not deter. A great day, remembered or not.; 4/12/22, 8:19 PM
madAsHell said...: Rest in Peace, Gilbert Gottfried!; 4/12/22, 8:30 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: There’s video of what appears to be bird poop landing on the president of the United States Joe Biden.

I would link to the video but I won’t out of respect for the president. 😉; 4/12/22, 8:34 PM
minnesota farm guy said...: Crossing the Mississippi at LaCrosse WI every pothole and backwater is covered with coots, ducks and geese making their way north. The migration started with Canada Geese, Tundra swans and diving ducks in late March and will end when the coots, Blue Wing teal and Pelicans leave. Amazing numbers of Bald eagles follow the migration. Wood Ducks , some Sandhill Cranes and some swans will stay to nest in the area. Nesting Canada Geese numbers have been increasing over the last few years. Nesting Cranes and swans are a relatively recent phenomenon. Eagle nests have increased along the Mississippi and some of the feeder rivers in the area in the last couple of years as well.; 4/12/22, 8:44 PM
Josephbleau said...: Is there any content in the new Bloggingheads with Marianne Williamson The Politics of Love?

Humoring a woman who has her thing?

rhhhardin, why must you do, can't you just be. -.. --- .-.. --- .-. -... .-. --- -.- . -- .- -. .-.-.-.-.-; 4/12/22, 8:51 PM
Rollo said...: Way to go Democrats. You could have had a 70 year old who looks like she's 40 and fabulous, and you picked an 80 year old who acts like he's 120, and a very old 120 at that. I would not mind Marianne realigning our national chakras if that's what she does.; 4/12/22, 9:10 PM
mezzrow said...: You rang?; 4/12/22, 9:10 PM
NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...: Aha! I wondered where all the coots we get on our neighborhood lake in the Winter go when Spring comes!; 4/12/22, 10:02 PM
Josephbleau said...: I predict that the next moral panic will be that older couples are evil for controlling the 40 year old kids they support at home because they won’t get jobs.; 4/12/22, 10:52 PM
Jupiter said...: I'm thinking about this concept of "disinformation". Suppose you are sitting in a dark room, and there are no sounds. You are not getting much information. Now suppose a light comes on. You perceive the light. The fact that the light has a certain intensity, with certain wavelengths, at a certain orientation with respect to you, is information. You are able to collect that information because your senses are optimized for that task.

Is it possible that the light falling on your eyes is "disinformation"? No. It isn't. It is possible that your interpretation of your sensory impressions, in terms of objects existing at a distance in the world around you, is erroneous. It may be that you misinterpret the information you obtain. But that does not make it "disinformation". What makes it disinformation is a lying shit-weasel claiming it is disinformation. And I daresay that most of the LSWs are so dense that they do not actually realize that they are making an absurd claim. Fucking bachelors in history from Yale. Dumb fucking cunt.; 4/12/22, 11:00 PM
gadfly said...: Josephbleau now has cooties. C'est La Vie!"; 4/13/22, 12:17 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Lovin the orange!; 4/13/22, 4:49 AM
Jaq said...: I have stopped posting critical comments on the official war propaganda here, I don't want Althouse to get taken down, or to force her into the censoring of comments. Don't worry though, you can root on the bloodshed all you like, bloodlust is allowed. And you are being told the whole truth.; 4/13/22, 6:07 AM
West TX Intermediate Crude said...: “The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.”
Robert Conquest
We have all read that one, and it is surprisingly true. Given that TPTB would break any law, violate any tradition, to prevent another Trump term, we are extremely lucky that Grace invaded the brains of the Democratic Power Structure and imposed Biden, Harris, and Pelosi as D leaders.
Popular revulsion against this desiccated troika will lead this once great country into a new birth of freedom.
I'm counting on it, for the sake of my grandchildren (while stashing preserved food and gold and silver dollars just in case).; 4/13/22, 6:15 AM
wendybar said...: Alan Dershowitz is going to use this footage to help the 1/6/21 protester he is defending against the government in the fake insurrecton case....

https://therightscoop.com/watch-new-january-6-video-shows-capitol-police-welcoming-protesters-through-terrace-doors/; 4/13/22, 7:12 AM
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wendybar said...: Instead of looking for all those elusive White Supremacists, MAYBE the FBI should focus on the REAL problem. Black against White HATE.

NYC subway shooter is black nationalist… Had extensive youtube channel…

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtl9pjnppooRbj_YssCKxsA/videos; 4/13/22, 7:35 AM
wendybar said...: Maybe the FBI should have KEPT their eye on the Subway shooter. They already knew about him, but had some scams to run themselves to help Joe Biden and the Progressives ruin Trump.; 4/13/22, 8:43 AM
wendybar said...: Alan Dershowitz: “He had a First Amendment right to protest the election and he was welcomed into the Capitol. The policemen are seen in the videotape welcoming him in. It’s not a crime to be welcomed into the crime after you’ve been waved in. He didn’t hurt anybody. He left when he was told to leave. And there’s been a case that’s been decided just last week which suggests that if those facts are true, there is no crime…

"… If they apply the same standards that they apply to protesters in the west– , Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and others who burned buildings, blocked access to the courts, and did real damage, none of these cases would be brought. And you can’t have a double standard. You can’t have one rule for the left and one rule for the right. One rule for Democrats and one rule for Republicans. The First Amendment doesn’t permit that."

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/defending-right-express-views-first-amendment-alan-dershowitz-speaks-defense-j6er-representing-waved-us-capitol-video/; 4/13/22, 8:44 AM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: It's 32-deg. this morning in Bellevue, WA and 30-deg at our Snoqualmie home site. The temperature for all of Washington doesn't exceed 35-deg.

Thank good for all of that CO2 in the air, otherwise we'd be freezing!; 4/13/22, 8:55 AM
farmgirl said...: Friends of ours are in LaCross this week.
Organic Valley Conference. We went once.

It was awesome.; 4/13/22, 11:16 AM
farmgirl said...: I just saw an advertisement from the state of VT health website that was for “women &anyone w/a(n) uterus or cervix…
So, it’s here.; 4/13/22, 12:09 PM