Althouse: At the Sunday Night Café...

November 20, 2022

At the Sunday Night Café...

... you can talk about whatever you want.

27 comments:

Kate said...: RIP Tommy the Power Ranger. He took a basically crap role and turned it into an icon. Condolences to his children. Sad day.; 11/20/22, 5:59 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Check out Senator/Comedian Al Franken's doodle.

"Everybody has a doodle", or so they said in this comedian Tom Segura podcast clip.

Althouse doodles a rat.

I never would have guessed Al Franken's doodle.; 11/20/22, 6:03 PM
rehajm said...: I jest met a man who told me the banjo player in Deliverance was his cousin. Billy Redden, not the guy who actually played the banjo…

He was kinda bragging I think; 11/20/22, 6:51 PM
Gusty Winds said...: Advice for Thanksgiving Turkey: Use one of those oven bags for your turkey. If you've never used one before, it's guaranteed. Poke a few holes in the top of the bag to vent, add a little flour, put the Turkey in, and tie up the end. Salt the cavity of course, and whatever you put on the outside. I like butter under the skin. Tastes like Wisconsin.

Cuts like and hour plus of time off a huge turkey, keeps it really moist, and the drippings are contained in the bag for gravy. Because it cuts time, be sure to use a meat thermometer and watch the temp of the bird. If you don't have one, get one with a long enough cord for the readout to be outside the oven. Amazon has a lot of choices on these.

Turkey is done at 165 degrees, but pull it at 160. It'll increase the last 5 degrees outside the oven and you don't want the meat to pull back from the skin. That means it's over cooking.

Internal Temp is always more important than time. If you buy a Butterball or some brand that has the temperature pop out you'll have a hard time believing the bird is done if you're calculating half hour a pound. But it's done. Those cheap oven bags are great holiday tools.; 11/20/22, 6:55 PM
Jaq said...: Remember all of the mockery visited on Freud for “penis envy”?; 11/20/22, 7:06 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Nothing to see here; 11/20/22, 7:22 PM
Sydney said...: Not liking this newest season of The Crown. I can’t get past the fact that the actress playing the Queen was also a Harry Potter villain. Every time she’s on the screen I think of her Harry Potter character. Not her fault, just that her character in Potter was very similar to her character as the Queen. Also, too much Diana drama in this season. Wouldn’t mind so much if the drama involved more of the Queen’s reaction and handling of all the drama instead of focusing on Diana herself.; 11/20/22, 8:31 PM
Gospace said...: Gocomics.com has been down for more then 48 hours now. No new about why anywhere. Just gone. Comic blogs and the Facebook page for the site are all reporting it’s gone but no one is speculating why. This is a serious problem. The world needs humor. I’ve now had two days without the daily comics of my choosing showing up in my inbox. The only internet service I actually pay for.

I’m not as cheerful as I should be without my daily comic fix.; 11/20/22, 9:00 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: Unarmed queers take down a shooter in Colorado while hundreds of armed to the teeth cops in Uvalde did nothing.Shout out to the brave.; 11/20/22, 9:55 PM
Duty of Inquiry said...: Gospace,

An alternative:

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/11/20/gocomics-is-down-where-to-find-your-funnies/; 11/20/22, 9:58 PM
Joe Smith said...: Since Musk, Twitter sidebar is no longer filled with 24/7 trans/gay/bi propaganda.

Praise be...; 11/20/22, 10:14 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: National Review: "Body-Cam Footage Confirms Paul Pelosi Opened Door for Police, Contradicts DOJ Account"

Link

Somebody, or some people are lying about this story.; 11/20/22, 10:21 PM
Rt41Rebel said...: @rehajm

One of the reasons I love Ann's blog is because it's fun to search obscure topics. I did an image search of Billy Redden just to see how he aged over the years, and guess what? A picture of present day Joe Biden was in the results. Joe at his age now looks an awful lot like Billy then I guess.; 11/20/22, 10:26 PM
gadfly said...: Here is the full story of Bye-bye, Missed American Spy for Gospace:

In a parallel universe that matches Bloom County in 1989 when Donald Trump bought the strip and fired the entire cast to spite Bill the Cat, Elon Musk has bought Gocomics and shut down the site to spite all of Trump's former MAGA followers.

Stay tuned for the follow-up strips to be published, as was Outland, but this time called TFX, as in "Total Fucking Blowup."; 11/21/22, 2:29 AM
Humperdink said...: President Assisted Living turned 80 yesterday and there is still talk of this guy running for reelection. To the objective observer it is laughable. However, coming on the heels of John Fetterman winning the coveted PA senate, why not?; 11/21/22, 5:15 AM
Jaq said...: Who is the real "denier" here? I know that it is an effective propaganda technique to accuse the other side of whatever unsavory thing that you are doing, so that's why Democrats use the smear, but isn't the real denial pretending that Republican voters were not suppressed in PA and AZ on Election Day, when it's public record that they were?

Apparently the AG in AZ is going to withhold certification of the election until some questions are answered. Of course I don't doubt that the problems will all be swept under the rug, as they were in PA. The Democrats have scores of millions of dollars, stolen for and given to them by that little thief over in the Bahamas, who is free as a bird right now, BTW, to spend propagandizing people, did I mention that the same guy who gave all of those millions to Democrats also slathered money around, like gravy at Cracker Barrel, on liberal press outlets?; 11/21/22, 5:16 AM
Humperdink said...: It's now pretty clear AG Merrick "Basset Hound" Garland appointed the special prosecutor (re: Jan 6) to prevent the R's from holding hearings on it once they assume control of the house.; 11/21/22, 5:31 AM
Jaq said...: gadfly to Donald Trump: "Why can't I quit you."; 11/21/22, 6:00 AM
Jaq said...: George Conway just announced he is leaving Twitter, the place smells cleaner already.; 11/21/22, 6:09 AM
boatbuilder said...: Lem--of course somebody is lying. And it worked. All they needed to do was push it past the election, after which--move on, nothing to see, Pelosi is no longer speaker.

And everyone who tries to say "Wait a minute, they lied to us, let's get to the truth" is a conspiracy promoter who won't let the Pelosis deal with a personal tragedy.; 11/21/22, 6:56 AM
Jose_K said...: England- Iran is on. Iranian women not covered and they are painted like football fans.. in Qatar; 11/21/22, 7:00 AM
wendybar said...: Merrick Garland is a Partisan asshole. So glad they kept this asshole off of the Supreme Court, but I guess this is his payback. Karma will get him one day, and it can't be soon enough for me.. https://reason.com/volokh/2022/11/18/comparing-the-orders-appointing-special-counsel-mueller-and-special-counsel-smith/; 11/21/22, 7:10 AM
ngtrains said...: Thanks for the comics link.

I was wondering what happened; 11/21/22, 7:18 AM
William50 said...: The foreign data set was gutted this week in VAERS and the cancer signal was halved, the myocarditis dose 3 response signal was lost and 994 spontaneous abortions/still births were dropped. Why is the CDC hiding vaccine adverse affects?; 11/21/22, 7:43 AM
wendybar said...: "So now they're not just letting anyone in, unvetted and unknown, but bringing them in, and well ahead of those attempting to immigrate through a legal process, which costs those migrants thousands of dollars, involves waiting for years in line, and comes with no benefit package the illegal migrants get. For those who might have been planning to emigrate to the state legally, they've just been notified that they're on a fool's errand -- migrating illegally is where the results are.

As for whether this has anything legal about it, well, it certainly doesn't conform to the Constitutional authority for Congress to set immigration law.

Bensman writes that experts say it's downright illegal:"

https://cis.org/Bensman/Legalizing-Border-Crossing-All-Next-Stage-Bidens-Migration-Crisis; 11/21/22, 9:05 AM
wendybar said...: "Now she contends she had to straighten her hair to get Obamacare passed. Given that it passed with Democrat votes only, she implies that Democrats were the racists because they were the only ones who could have stopped passage."

https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2022/11/why-michelle-cried-racism.html#more; 11/21/22, 10:49 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Air Force, FBI raid homes in probe of Area 51 website

From the Las Vegas Review-Journal

Agents from the U.S. Air Force and FBI recently raided homes in Clark and Lincoln counties in an investigation of a man who operates a website about the top-secret military base known as Area 51, a spokesman confirmed Wednesday.

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"Arnu (the website owner) said both his homes were raided “without warning” on Nov. 3 “by 15-20 agents in full riot gear.” The agents broke open the doors while Arnu was in the Rachel home and his girlfriend at the Las Vegas one, and then they “were detained and treated in the most disrespectful way.”

“My girlfriend was led out into the street barefoot and only in her underwear in full view of the neighbors,” he said. “I was led outside, handcuffed and only in a t-shirt and sweats in sub-freezing temperatures.”"; 11/21/22, 2:54 PM