Althouse: "Zeus"/"He smiles..."

February 20, 2023

"Zeus"/"He smiles..."

Photos from an East Village walk today.

45 comments:

RideSpaceMountain said...: "He smiles because he knows something you don't"

I imagine that's what the Star Wars AT-AT Walker looks like after some super good keef and a 5th of Makers.; 2/20/23, 4:26 PM
typingtalker said...: I'll take the Special Hot Dry Noodle with a very large Coke. Lots of ice please.; 2/20/23, 4:27 PM
MadTownGuy said...: Latest on my COVID vacation: gradually getting weaned off oxygen - can't happen too soon for me - lung function may take a while to get close to optimal, but progress so far is encouraging. No other lasting effects for my bride or me, so far.; 2/20/23, 4:43 PM
MadTownGuy said...: A few days ago, someone posted a link to a timeline about the Steele dossier. I thought it was in the cafe comments but now I can't find it. Does anybody remember seeing it or, better yet, have the link at hand?; 2/20/23, 4:47 PM
madAsHell said...: I had a Welsh Terrier named Zeus. He was absolutely fearless. I learned a lot.; 2/20/23, 4:56 PM
wildswan said...: Do you ever wonder who you'd be if you had stayed in the Est Village?; 2/20/23, 5:34 PM
n.n said...: Boobs, with ponytails, an aesthetic delight. I'm channeling Paglia. Thanks, Saint Croix.

Also, Zeus with a knowing smile, and mischievous eyes. A girl who talks with her eyes.

The rest is abstract puffery (apologies to puffins)... nay, twittery, weed-induced hallucinations, and alien sh... Until we read again. So long, Paglia.; 2/20/23, 5:40 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Daily Dose

Watch a maniac type at 281 words per minute with 100% accuracy.

6.5M Earthquake in Turkey

"Best" comment over there: "Poor folks there have already been put through hell and back, and just as they try to start picking up the pieces here comes another one. I know little to nothing about turkey or its people but my heart goes out to them."; 2/20/23, 6:23 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: mRNA in blood after 28 days "surprised researchers"

Hint: my YouTube doc; 2/20/23, 6:27 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: I may have missed doc's link back there.

Here it is JIC: Something else that's not supposed to happen with them "safe and effective" until it does.; 2/20/23, 6:31 PM
Tomcc said...: I recall a dog named Zeus that would visit the Althouse home. What became of him?; 2/20/23, 6:42 PM
paminwi said...: MadTownGuy: here’s to hoping for more positive steps forward!; 2/20/23, 6:57 PM
William50 said...: Kamala Harris said that the United States accuses Russia of "crimes against humanity".
I say this is a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

This is amusing given the Biden administration is itself guilty of crimes against humanity in addition to violation of the Nuremberg Code with its mandatory vaccination mandate which resulted in a 45% increase in millennial deaths in 2021 as just one example.

They Lied, People Died

THE NUREMBERG CODE
1. The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.
This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be
so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element
of force, fraud, deceit, duress, over-reaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and
should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter
involved, as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision.; 2/20/23, 7:29 PM
MadTownGuy said...: Democrats Meddle Again in a G.O.P. Primary, This Time Down-Ballot

Original story is paywalled in the NYT, but the gist is in the post at Election Law Blog:

"Last year, Democrats spent millions of dollars elevating far-right candidates in Republican primary contests for governor and Congress — betting, it turned out correctly, that more extreme opponents would lose general elections.

Now Wisconsin Democrats are trying to do it again, this time with mail and TV ads before a Republican primary in a special election for a State Senate seat that carries ramifications far beyond the district in suburban Milwaukee.

The Democrats are helping a far-right election denier who has become a pariah within her party in her race against a less extreme, but still election-denying, conservative. They hope that with a more vulnerable opponent, Democrats can win a seat held for decades by Republicans and deny the G.O.P. a veto-proof majority in the gerrymandered chamber.

“Janel Brandtjen is as conservative as they come,” reads a postcard sent to Republican voters from the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, which calls her “a conservative pro-Trump Republican.”

The Feb. 21 primary, and the April 4 general election to follow, will serve as the latest test of how much appetite Republican voters have for the flavor of election denialism that fueled the party’s grass roots after former President Donald J. Trump’s 2020 election loss.

The twist in the Wisconsin race is that both leading Republican candidates took significant public steps to try to overturn Mr. Trump’s defeat. One of them, however, Ms. Brandtjen, a state representative from Menomonee Falls, has so alienated members of her own party that she was kicked out of the State Assembly’s Republican caucus, leaving Democrats giddy about the prospect of facing her in a special election for a battleground district."

Claire McCaskill smiles.; 2/20/23, 8:09 PM
BIII Zhang said...: I see that Tom Brady is taking his kids skiing this week. Lots of photos of them in Vail.

His ex-wife, of course, is attempting to relive her younger horing days in Brazil, showing off her body and dancing around trying to get laid or something.

And has media tagging along to take photos of her showing off her "body."

Not a good look.

Must be nice to have a father who looks after you, was the best player in the NFL and has amassed riches for you and your family that most cannot even fathom.

And then there's mom. Showing off her aging body. In Brazil. Or something.; 2/20/23, 8:24 PM
Narr said...: In late news, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

Looks like I was right about Meadehouse plans (dinner, play, hotel). Now I'm wondering if Prof is trying to tempt Meade to relocate to the Big Apple . . .

Probably not.; 2/20/23, 8:35 PM
Richard Dolan said...: Welcome back. Stay awhile. The East Village has had its day, though. Plus, if noodles are your thing, much better food in Flushing (anyplace near Main St and Roosevelt).; 2/20/23, 9:14 PM
Readering said...: So a count in the Rust prosecutions has already been dropped, eliminating enhanced sentencing. Apparently because the applicable statute not in place the day of the shooting. Talk about prosecutorial incompetence. What does this say about the rest of the case preparation?; 2/20/23, 10:57 PM
Readering said...: Formal training for Bill Zhang.; 2/21/23, 2:46 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Zeus died, I believe.; 2/21/23, 3:55 AM
Saint Croix said...: Question for all the hillbillies of Althouse...

I've written two murder mysteries, Whodidit in the Supreme Court and Whodidit With a Senator.

These are set in Washington D.C., because I thought it would be fun to have a homicide cop try to solve murders in the middle of all the political shit that happens in Washington D.C. The first one, somebody dumped the body of a dead baby on the dais in the Supreme Court building. That caused a shit-storm.

In the second one, a Senator was murdered. And he had sexually harassed, I can't even remember, 90 women or something.

These books are both fun and light, with a lot of humor. I write them to relax a bit. Anyway, I just got an idea for my third one: Whodidit With a Redskin?

I think this one is going to be about race, racism, bad language, words white men are not allowed to say, identity politics, and solving that damn homicide.

So my question to the hillbillies of Wisconsin (or wherever you are, I'm in Charlotte) is whether I should start up this book, or just skip it because it sounds like a bad idea.; 2/21/23, 4:06 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: via small dead animals

Hint: judge for yourself, don’t take other people’s word for it.; 2/21/23, 4:08 AM
Saint Croix said...: Did you know that Picasso was once suspected of stealing the Mona Lisa?

I read it here at a website called Interesting Facts.; 2/21/23, 4:13 AM
Meade said...: Not dead, Lem. In dog heaven. 😊

https://althouse.blogspot.com/2022/06/goodbye-to-our-dear-friend-zeus.html?showComment=1655418849918&m=1#c8621352595893720482; 2/21/23, 4:14 AM
donald said...: Bundchen makes way more money than Brady. Brady literally gave his marriage up to play one more year of football. I guess taking the kids skiing makes up for that.; 2/21/23, 4:15 AM
Saint Croix said...: Claire McCaskill smiles.

Claire McCaskill?

The one who's smiling and grinning and laughing is Rush Limbaugh.

Don't you remember Operation Chaos!

Back in 2008, the damn San Francisco Chronicle calls Rush the "Great Satan." It's almost like you're biased as shit, San Francisco Chronicle! You ought to put that up on your front page somewhere. "We're the newspaper that will tell you to Vote Democrat." You know, so you're honest with your readers.

Anyway, it's funny to read that Rush was "the Great Satan." The hell he was! You damn child reporter. You got the quote totally wrong. You don't remember who the Great Satan is?

The USA! Our whole country was "the Great Satan," according to the Ayatollah Khomeini.

I feel like he was biased too! I wish Omar or some other American who practices Islam would stand up and say, "My country is not the Great Satan. That's really stupid and Iran still owes us an apology."

Unless she thinks we really are "The Great Satan."

Let us know if you think our country is Satanic, Omar. Speak up! Don't be shy!

Personally I think we're all going to hell.; 2/21/23, 4:32 AM
planetgeo said...: The existence of dogs is virtual proof of the existence of heaven and a beneficent God. Dogs seem to have been created to have a unique symbiotic relationship with humans. They're like furry angels. Loyal, endlessly playful, protective, and loving to even the lowliest human.; 2/21/23, 4:35 AM
Saint Croix said...: I spent three years writing articles for the Motley Fool. So much fun. I loved my time there. And I learned so much about the stock market and making money. But I had minor aggravations, too.

One of the minor aggravations is that I was not allowed to use the term "USA" in any article I wrote.

Now isn't that insane as shit?

My editor insisted that we follow the totally neutral and above-board and honest and non-partisan AP Style Guide.

Now that I am on hiatus from the Fool, I can say, the AP Style Guide can kiss my white ass! There's nothing wrong with the term "USA" to refer to my country, you leftist piece of trash excuse for a wire service.

I call on the Associated Press to explain to the American people why the term "USA" can never be used! I want 100% of our journalist class to explain why the phrase "United States of America" is verboten and we can only say "United States."

And here's the hard part. You have to explain it without being leftist, and without being political!

I say, it's political as shit to hate the term "USA" and to try to abolish it in the mainstream media. You silly Democrats ought to be ashamed of yourselves. Stop lying in your newspapers. And quit teaching our kids to hate our country.; 2/21/23, 4:43 AM
Saint Croix said...: Althouse called Zeus a "god dog" when he died.

I was going to say...

"Althouse is so upset she made a typo"

(I thought she meant to type "good dog")

but then I clicked on her link.; 2/21/23, 4:52 AM
Saint Croix said...: Dogs are so humble and they bring so much love to the world. I often like dogs more than people.

"If dogs aren't in heaven, I want to go where they went." -- Will Rogers.; 2/21/23, 4:52 AM
Saint Croix said...: ha ha ha

Bernie Sanders -- the very rich Bernie Sanders -- has to explain why his tour tickets cost $95.

$95 to hear Bernie speak!

That's insane. You're not a rock band! What a shit tour that's going to be.; 2/21/23, 5:15 AM
Humperdink said...: There is a saying in Christian circles: "Man makes plans, God laughs". He has a better plan, sometimes hard to see in moments of despair.; 2/21/23, 5:47 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "Do you ever wonder who you'd be if you had stayed in the Est Village?"

I never lived in the East Village.

Lived in 2 places in the West Village: 31 Jane Street and the big NYU complex called Washington Square Village.

There was no way to stay in the second place. And at that point we had a baby and relocated to Park Slope. From Park Slope we moved to Madison -- for a job. I supposed if I'd been hired by NYU to teach there, we'd have stayed in the West Village.

The East Village was a dicier place back then.; 2/21/23, 5:49 AM
Robert Cook said...: "Do you ever wonder who you'd be if you had stayed in the Est Village?"

The East Village of today is not the East Village of yore.

Today, you'd likely be an affluent young professional living in a chic upscale apartment in a new or renovated building, or one of a group of young, middle-class college grads living together and sharing rent in buildings of various vintages, each displaying degrees of renovation from nil to extensive (and expensive).; 2/21/23, 8:14 AM
Robert Cook said...: "Kamala Harris said that the United States accuses Russia of "crimes against humanity". I say this is a case of the pot calling the kettle black."

But, of course! Has it ever been different?; 2/21/23, 8:16 AM
Iman said...: “Bernie Sanders -- the very rich Bernie Sanders -- has to explain why his tour tickets cost $95.

$95 to hear Bernie speak!

That's insane. You're not a rock band! What a shit tour that's going to be.”

The “Incontinence on Seven Continents” tour.; 2/21/23, 8:23 AM
Robert Cook said...: "Lived in 2 places in the West Village: 31 Jane Street...."

I used to spend much time in the 80s browsing a bookstore on 8th Ave. just a block south of Jane Street. In the early 90s it closed, to my sorrow, and my roaming in that part of the West Village became infrequent.; 2/21/23, 8:32 AM
Readering said...: AA was a trailblazing parent to Park Slope. When I arrived, a year before she left, it was still gentrifying, and the mass of strollers still half a decade away.; 2/21/23, 9:13 AM
Ann Althouse said...: The part of Park Slope where we lived — 3rd Street, 2 blocks west of the park — was entirely gentrified women we lived there from 1981 to 1984.

We had a beautiful ground floor of a brownstone that had been nicely restored.

But people didn’t use big strollers in those days. Small was still beautiful.; 2/21/23, 9:56 AM
Readering said...: Typo "women"? Aquiring reputation for lesbian couples around that time....; 2/21/23, 11:55 AM
RBE said...: I miss Zeus. He was a God Dog.; 2/21/23, 12:12 PM
Saint Croix said...: I'm rescuing another dog (I think)

Puppy about 16 weeks

Giant Pyrenees mixed with Golden Retriever, maybe

tentative name(s):

Blue

Blue Dog

Monet

(she's kind of a rough-houser so Monet is probably out -- looking for arty suggestions if anybody has one); 2/21/23, 7:53 PM
Narr said...: Arty girl dog?

Frida.

Cuja.; 2/21/23, 9:34 PM
Saint Croix said...: thanks Narr; 2/22/23, 6:46 AM
Narr said...: De nada, Saint Croix.; 2/22/23, 2:25 PM