Althouse: At the Saturday Night Café...

August 20, 2022

At the Saturday Night Café...

... you can talk about whatever you want.

22 comments:

gilbar said...: i have to admit, your pix make Wisconsin look pretty; 8/20/22, 8:42 PM
Lurker21 said...: Billions Season Six was a bit better than Season Five. There's a shift from the financial to the political world at the beginning that gives the show a little more life. But in the end I was as tired of this season as I was of the season before. The "clever" dialogue with endless references to sports and other trivia became extremely annoying as did Paul Giamatti's repetitious and interminable Inspector Javert routine.; 8/20/22, 8:54 PM
Baceseras said...: Lake looks inaccessible. Why not cut all that stuff down so people can enjoy the lovely Nature?; 8/20/22, 8:54 PM
JRoberts said...: My wife and I just re-watched “Darkest Hour” and were impressed once again by this portrayal of serious people, doing serious work during a serious time.

I find myself wondering if it is even possible to look inside The Beltway at this time and identify any serious people doing any serious work.

I am sad for our nation and the world.; 8/20/22, 8:55 PM
Ann Althouse said...: “ Lake looks inaccessible. Why not cut all that stuff down so people can enjoy the lovely Nature?”

At this point, it’s a cliff. You can get to the lake at some places along the trail, which weaves around and has changes of elevation.

Look up the Lakeshore Nature Preserve to see a map of this place. It’s quite extensive and will take you all the way to the Union Terrace.; 8/20/22, 9:03 PM
h said...: replying to JRoberts re "darkest hour". The 18 year olds of the 1940s had to deal with the question of whether it was justifiable to fight the Nazi's and the Japanese. 18 year olds of the 1960s had to deal with the question of whether or not it was justifiable to fight the communists in Vietnam. The 18 year olds of the 2010s had to deal with the question of whether or not it was justifiable for the US to send soldiers to Iraq and Afghanistan. The 18 year olds of the 2020s are straining to deal with the appropriate use of pronouns, and the appropriate age to have your breasts or penis removed surgically.; 8/20/22, 9:19 PM
Lurker21 said...: I was ready to repent my review of Billions when I thought for a minute that it might be the last season. It seemed like a satisfying end to the series, but no ... there will be another one. Heaven help us.; 8/20/22, 9:28 PM
wildswan said...: Liz Cheney stars in Dances With RINOs
In this fierce feminist faux fable the hypocrisy is exposed.
In the sequel, Raise the Titanicess, Liz runs for President with Admiral Rachel Levine as her VP. It is not certain which of the two really takes office due to their similarity and thus the hypocrisy is exposed.
In the sequel, Presence of Malice, Liz Cheney runs for President with Rachel Dolezal as VP and the hypocrisy is exposed.
Dezney+ picks up the franchise and in the prequel, Wag the Cat, Liz Cheney averts the sun's death caused by the villainous VeryWhiteMale and the hypocrisy is exposed. With Hunter Biden (Ally and Bong Holder); 8/20/22, 9:35 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Like Stories of Old explores the multiverse metaphor.

Does anything matter? and if there is something that matters... Would Baron Ryan revel in it?

link to video; 8/20/22, 10:50 PM
gadfly said...: On September 30, 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain negotiated a deal with Adolf Hitler to allow Nazi Germany to incorporate the Czechoslovakian Sudetenland into the Third Reich. In return, he believed he had assured that peace was at hand with the Führer, at least for the time being.

So what choice did Winston Churchill have but to fight two years later when Germany lost the Air Battle of Britain and began blitz bombing London? When the Allies put down the Germans, Winston had grown tired of fighting, so he and FDR were instrumental in giving control of half of Europe's population over to Stalin.

Chamberlain and Churchill and Roosevelt, heroes indeed!; 8/21/22, 12:54 AM
Ann Althouse said...: The dominant flower in that photograph — the tall, white, inverted triangle — is called Pale Indian Plantain.; 8/21/22, 5:23 AM
wendybar said...: It sucks, that now you have to openly LIE to avoid a backlash (black lash??) over the lie about 1619 being history when the author herself says it is just journalism, not history. But Blacklash it is, because the WOKE will make sure you lose your livelihood if you step off the plantation. Grovel white boy, grovel to the left. https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/08/president-of-american-historical-association-issues-groveling-apology-after-backlash-over-criticism-of-1619-project/; 8/21/22, 6:35 AM
wendybar said...: I believe THESE scientists. https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/08/over-1000-scientists-and-professionals-sign-formal-declaration-there-is-no-climate-emergency/; 8/21/22, 6:37 AM
Rusty said...: "Chamberlain and Churchill and Roosevelt, heroes indeed!"
I thought you chuckleheads worshiped FDR. You know. The guy who saved the country by prolonging the depression until 1939. If anything it was Hitler who put America back to work.; 8/21/22, 7:06 AM
Andrew said...: @wendybar,
If enough of these people (old school professors) would say "Go F yourselves," maybe things would change. How can you keep your dignity or your professional integrity after an apology like that?

I almost went for a PhD in history. So glad I didn't.; 8/21/22, 7:45 AM
wendybar said...: But U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled there was no provision in the Presidential Records Act to force the National Archives to seize records from a former president. What’s interesting about the case is what it says in regard to a president’s sweeping power over records.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/08/21/old-case-involving-bill-clinton-could-have-major-impact-on-mar-a-lago-raid-n615243; 8/21/22, 9:27 AM
tim in vermont said...: I still can't get over how the liars called their "electric cars for rich Democrats" bill the "Inflation Reduction Act," but it is funny that the tax credit for buying these overgrown golf carts has already been more than eaten up by inflation, and the more of these limited purpose cars that we build, the higher the prices of the limited availability commodities that go into them.

Biden could have done more to lower the price of EVs by not killing the Twin Metals Mine.

Fire Marshal Joe can't resist making things worse, though. Look at his war in Ukraine and the one he is trying to pick with China. Now we have China, India, and Russia doing joint military maneuvers, lol. Maybe trying to oust Modi with another CIA/Twitter color revolution was a bad idea.

Basically a color revolution is how they got rid of Trump, and the proof is that they officially denied it. Now they want him drawn and quartered, like William Wallace, in order to hang the parts of his body from posts in town squares in Red States.; 8/21/22, 9:32 AM
Jersey Fled said...: "Chamberlain and Churchill and Roosevelt, heroes indeed!"

I thought you were referring to Wilt. It's his birthday today.; 8/21/22, 10:09 AM
walter said...: The pleasantly named Middleton Good Neighbor Festival has banned politicians from appearing in the parade. Well..Republican candidates.
Waunafest tried to do same.
Co-exist!; 8/21/22, 10:39 AM
Michael K said...: When the Allies put down the Germans, Winston had grown tired of fighting, so he and FDR were instrumental in giving control of half of Europe's population over to Stalin.

Chamberlain and Churchill and Roosevelt, heroes indeed!

gadfly needs a few books with history as the topic. "The Bulwark" and "Lincoln Project" are not reliable sources. I will grant that Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter White were not exactly American patriots. By 1945, Britain had too small a number of men of fighting age to carry their share. The US Congress had repealed the Selective Service Act and everybody in the US thought the war was won. Eisenhower had a hell of a time rounding up enough soldiers to replace losses in the Battle of the Bulge. A pretty good history of the war is in the biography of Marshall by Forrest Pogue. It is four volumes but the last one covers 1943 to 1945. You should read it.; 8/21/22, 10:40 AM
Narr said...: What gadfly posted was a jumble of confusion. To the extent he has an argument, it's not even wrong.; 8/21/22, 12:23 PM
JRoberts said...: "What gadfly posted was a jumble of confusion. To the extent he has an argument, it's not even wrong."

What's worse, Gadfly didn't even attempt to address my initial comment about "serious people doing serious work during a serious time" much less the current state of our own elected public servants. I didn't call anyone a hero.; 8/21/22, 2:48 PM