Althouse: At the Room Temperature Café...

January 12, 2023

At the Room Temperature Café...

... you can talk about whatever you want.

27 comments:

Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Did y'all notice Althouse's hometown is prominently in the news on her birthday. Coincidence you say? Too many coincidences out there, if you ask me 😉

Happy birthday professor.

In addition, here is a dose of internet

Congratulations to Park Break.; 1/12/23, 7:14 PM
Big Mike said...: So now the wall is a Frank Stella?; 1/12/23, 7:15 PM
Dave Begley said...: If you have procrastinated all day, post your birthday wishes to Ann here.; 1/12/23, 7:27 PM
narciso said...: https://www.eugyppius.com/p/sars-2-and-paxlovid-resistance-the; 1/12/23, 7:29 PM
Political Junkie said...: Is that where Biden stored his classified documents?; 1/12/23, 7:42 PM
JRoberts said...: Is it true that Joe Biden also stores his Crypto in the garage with his Corvette?; 1/12/23, 8:08 PM
Butkus51 said...: I will never understand the reverence for the NYT.; 1/12/23, 8:40 PM
SteveWe said...: Frank Stella? Gesso.; 1/12/23, 8:46 PM
Laslo Spatula said...: Best photo ever.

I am Laslo.; 1/12/23, 9:31 PM
wildswan said...: Skidding right up to the wire, Happy Birthday, Professor.; 1/12/23, 9:57 PM
sestamibi said...: Happy birthday, Ann. I'm sorry Rush Limbaugh and Kirstie Alley, both born on the very same day, are not around to share it with you.; 1/12/23, 10:37 PM
Peter said...: 😞 sad, you don’t reply to my joint birthday greetings email…
(As you have in recent years … sad 😞)
Peter Forsythe
In Hong Kong
Birthday 12 January; 1/12/23, 11:38 PM
farmgirl said...: Oh!!! Happy (belated, now)birthday, Althouse!!
My spellcheck remembers your name.

I hope it was a lovely day for you… &many moo-oooore!; 1/13/23, 12:58 AM
BIII Zhang said...: The house where the FBI found all those classified documents parked in a garage next to a Corvette doesn't belong to Joe Biden or Jill Biden.

It's owned by Hunter Biden. The property tax records show this.; 1/13/23, 3:33 AM
tim in vermont said...: I am still waiting for the innocent explanation for why Chinese nationals had keys to the office where classified documents were kept, by the good offices of Hunter Biden, whom they were paying $100,000 a month. And why other documents were kept at Hunter Biden’s residence in Delaware, when he has been the receiver of largesse from the Ukraine as well and the documents referred to both Ukraine and China.; 1/13/23, 4:48 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: It's all free!

https://www.foxnews.com/media/migrants-drinking-all-day-having-sex-in-stairs-taxpayer-funded-new-york-hotels-whistleblower; 1/13/23, 6:08 AM
tim in vermont said...: Funny how Joe was keeping his car at a house his son paid for, it’s almost as if their finances are commingled, could that be?; 1/13/23, 7:34 AM
tim in vermont said...: Right about the time that the documents were found, the WaPo ran an article saying that having classified documents wasn't really that big of a deal...

https://mobile.twitter.com/LeeSmithDC/status/1612865952189747206

They order up those stories in rags like the WaPo like you and I order pizza.; 1/13/23, 8:16 AM
Lurker21 said...: Barnett Newman.

The corner makes for a fine vertical zip through the image.

I would suggest that you have the earlier photos of the unfinished painting framed and hung on the newly painted wall.; 1/13/23, 8:22 AM
lonejustice said...: “He’s fading fast. He is a proven loser. He cost us the House in ’18, he cost us the White House in ’20, he cost us the Senate again and again.” -- former House Speaker Paul Ryan.; 1/13/23, 8:42 AM
Michael McNeil said...: Brought forward from an earlier post…

I also think electric might be safer than gas.

A 2020 report by the National Fire Protection Association – NFPA Research – found that “Households that used electric ranges showed a higher risk of cooking fires and associated losses than those using gas ranges.”

Delving further into the study's statistical nitty-gritty – as it notes, “Unless otherwise specified, the statistics presented in this report are estimates derived from the United States Fire Administration’s National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) and NFPA’s annual Fire Experience Survey” – they conclude: [quoting, page 8…]

Households that use electric ranges have a higher risk of cooking fires and associated losses than those using gas ranges. Although 60 percent of households cook with electricity,[15] four out of five (80 percent) ranges or cooktops involved in reported cooking fires were powered by electricity. Population-based risks are shown below,

• The rate of reported fires per million households was 2.6 times higher with electric ranges.
• The civilian fire death rate per million households was 3.4 times higher with electric ranges.
• The civilian fire injury rate per million households was 4.8 times higher with electric ranges than in households using gas ranges.
• The average fire dollar loss per household was 3.8 times higher in households with electric ranges. See Figure 10. [on page 10]

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DINKY DAU 45 said...: On top of the $ guy doing a 5-month bid at Rikers for fraud,
Trump Organization ordered to pay $1.6 million penalty, the maximum fine allowed, in tax fraud case. The university, the charity the crime organization, an ongoing pattern. This fellow wants to be president again. Not TDS, just facts (not alternative ones) and the other guy, Sleepy Joe caught with TOP SECRET documents in his office after the other guy (mar a logo man) under criminal obstruction investigation for same mishandling. Are we really that far away from a 3rd world country? Millennials and Gen Z will have to do much better when in charge, I'll be taking a dirt nap by then, but my 4 children and grandkids (6) and great grandkids (6) will reap the harvest, God help them. It's always been there(corruption) but now with constant 24-hour media and internet, even the uninformed get to see and hear it.; 1/13/23, 10:12 AM
Rusty said...: I think Lurker 21 has a good idea.
Shows how artistic I am. It's a plaster wall and the plasterer that did the skim coat was in a hurry.; 1/13/23, 10:13 AM
Drago said...: lonejustice: “He’s fading fast. He is a proven loser. He cost us the House in ’18, he cost us the White House in ’20, he cost us the Senate again and again.” -- former House Speaker Paul Ryan.

LOL

Paul. Ryan.

Any clever potential 2024 republican primary candidate would kill to have that loser Romney-boy Ryan publicly attacking him or her.; 1/13/23, 10:19 AM
Darcy said...: Very pretty. It is what I call "greige".

Belated happy birthday!; 1/13/23, 1:15 PM
boatbuilder said...: I told you. The hard part is getting the corners right.

Not bad, But you certainly didn't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Which is probably the sensible thing.; 1/13/23, 6:11 PM
Tina Trent said...: Good corner. You can definitely spend too much time on the spackle. Slap a plant in front of it, I keep imploring my guy. I highly recommend this product, especially if you live far north or south: Plate Gasket Insulators. They cost pennies and will dramatically lower your heating or cooling bills. Order on Amazon.; 1/14/23, 6:06 AM