Althouse: A Mayapple Café...

May 17, 2023

A Mayapple Café...

... you can talk about whatever you want.

14 comments:

wildswan said...: News from the Ukraine War is very difficult to follow these days. The main front for months has been the town of Bakhmut. The Russians haven't taken it yet so much is clear.

But the leader of the main group fighting there, a man named Prigozhin, who leads a private army called Wagner, was recently accused of offering information on Russian positions to Ukrainian intelligence in exchange for being allowed to win in Bakhmut. Treason? Prigozhin merely said that the info he offered was accessible to US spy satellites so it was not treason to offer it. And he maintains his position as leader of a fighting force. What?
Generals continue to move from post to post. Why?
Is all this military weirdness a slow moving coup? or battle space prep for coup attempts? Or 3-D chess in which attempts to gain coup positions are thwarted by Putin and his allies?

Then there's the expected counter-offensive by the Ukrainians.
The Ukrainians recently got a lot of modern, heavy military equipment, the kind needed for a counter-offensive and I personally believe they are training on it. I mean, I'm just a girl but it seems to me that it would take awhile to learn to use a tank without shooting your friends or driving into them. And the same with jets, though again, I admit I know nothing really and all my information, so-called, comes from Top Gun.
I have faith in the Ukrainian Armed Forces and I notice Germany has suddenly begun seriously arming the Ukrainians. I think that means Germany thinks Ukraine will win and wants to participate in the victory.

But there's nothing to do but wait.; 5/17/23, 8:59 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Whenever I watch an attempt to viral a video of a child and a pet, I invariably see them both, child and pet, turn to the adult for instructions. I take some confort in knowing that the adults attempting to make a viral video are still in charge.

The day the kid and the dog look elsewhere for cues, that'll be the big clue, about something I now have precious little clue about.

"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." 1 Corinthians 13:12; 5/17/23, 9:24 PM
Christopher said...: I came late to the Elon post about how it's "immoral" to work from home, so I'll have my say here. I think it's great that I can admire somebody in many ways and still think wow, that's really dumb.; 5/17/23, 9:38 PM
n.n said...: Russell Brand c/o Tulsi Gabbard

Politicians’ hypocrisy: when one side is afraid they'll lose an election they cast doubt on the integrity of voting machines, but these same folks will defend the integrity of voting machines if they win or look like they'll win.; 5/17/23, 10:47 PM
n.n said...: The standard of democracy in UN administered elections is in-person voting with indelible marks to mitigate a multiplicity and pretense of votes.

The standard of democracy in Ukraine before the 2014 coup was EU independent certification.

In America, the standard of democracy is death, imprisonment, cruel detention, unusual home invasions, and years of braying by the fourth leg in collusion with the State.; 5/17/23, 11:03 PM
Richard Dolan said...: An endless succession of beans and nuts?
Sounds like Sahadi’s has opened a branch in Madison.; 5/17/23, 11:15 PM
Drago said...: The Harry and Meghan Jussie-Smollett ploy re: the NYC car chase story is ripe for an Althouse plucking.; 5/17/23, 11:58 PM
tim maguire said...: Christopher said...I think it's great that I can admire somebody in many ways and still think wow, that's really dumb.

I feel the same way about Michael Bloomberg. So much of what he says makes me think, "Wow. This guy is really dumb." And yet he built a multi-billion dollar company from scratch and was
a moderately successful mayor of a major city. So there's hope for all of us.; 5/18/23, 6:16 AM
William50 said...: This kind of gave me the creeps.

Catherine Austin Fitts - the power of the central bank, the great reset and how they can control you once they switch to digital currency; 5/18/23, 7:12 AM
Old and slow said...: Musk only sounds really dumb if you assume that he is speaking sincerely all the time. I think he is (like all of us) often self-serving and working from another angle.; 5/18/23, 7:19 AM
donald said...: Dwight Yoakem and Emmy Lou Harris are playing at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles tonight. Be there or be square.; 5/18/23, 7:26 AM
Rusty said...: Good shot. Most people don't know that there's a flower under the Mayapple leaf or a fruit. I just found out that the fruit is edible, although insipid.
Who took it? You or Meade.; 5/18/23, 3:53 PM
Rusty said...: Oh, yeah. All other parts of the plant except for the fruit are poisonous.; 5/18/23, 3:56 PM
wendybar said...: Tell me again, that we DON'T have a Deep State, that will destroy you if you speak out???!!
THIS IS JOE BIDEN'S AMERICA....NOT TRUMPS. (whom they were always accusing of acting this way)

"FBI Special Agent Garret O’Boyle revealed in a shocking testimony that he and his family had their belongings confiscated by the FBI and were subsequently left homeless after he was suspended from the bureau for speaking out against them."

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/former-fbi-special-agent-left-homeless-after-blowing/; 5/18/23, 4:36 PM