Althouse: The sun watchers.

May 16, 2023

The sun watchers.

Open thread in the comments.

No problem with the shorts here: Running, rock-walking. It's the sports exception.

24 comments:

tim maguire said...: I just tried ChatGBT for the first time, using it to find the source of a quote I read many years ago and failed many times to track down through google:

what is the exact quote for this paraphrase: "there have more wars fought over the number of buttons on a bishop's cassock than over the basic nature of god"?

A few seconds later:

The quote you are referring to is often attributed to British theologian and writer Charles Caleb Colton. The exact quote is as follows:

"Men have been wise in very different modes; but they have always laughed the same way. They have more wars, more disputes, over the form of a cross, or the cut of a surplice, or the color of a bishop's sleeve, than over all the dogmas of theology. To think that God can take pleasure in the bickering of worms! Yet He must, or it would not be so common."

It's important to note that attributions to quotes can sometimes be inaccurate or disputed, so variations of this quote may exist as well.

Not bad...; 5/16/23, 12:22 PM
tim maguire said...: Wait, turns out refreshing can get you a different answer. The second try was wrong, but the third got me this:

The exact quote you are referring to is: "There have been far more bloodshed caused by the quarrels of popes and kings, over the number of buttons on a bishop's cassock, or the shape of a monk's tonsure, than has ever been caused by the nature of God."

Much closer to the quote I remembered, but no identifying information. Plugging that quote into Google got me nothing. 0 hits. Probably was the Caleb quote.; 5/16/23, 12:29 PM
walter said...: Sounds drunk
https://youtu.be/ldP8YNAPlTw; 5/16/23, 1:11 PM
Narr said...: How do you know the fellow doesn't don his special sunrise-watching shorts just long enough for pix?; 5/16/23, 1:25 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: I just heard someone tell a story about a gay man from Portland.
She asked "What's it like in Portland these days."
and the gay dude relied - "Portland will smack the liberal right out of you. I'd vote Trump if he ran for Portland."

seriously.; 5/16/23, 1:31 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: “Or would you rather bray at obvious things like the way pay-whatever-you-want cafés go out of business?“

Braying has an infantile vive to me. (Watch until the end). The reason is because when I was a kid adults would admonish me against it. “Mira muchacho, deja de berrear”.

If I windup not signing up for Twitter’s blue check it will be because staying away from the braying corner looks like a full time job.

I’m waiting to see what Tucker is going to do there.

What does videos of kids at a drag show, moms claiming to raise their toddler as non binary and Martha Stewart’s Swimsuit Cover have in common? Opportunities to resist conspicuous braying.; 5/16/23, 2:06 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: Marc Dones, the head of the King County Regional Homeless Authority, has resigned after only two years on the job. King County and Seattle created the KSRHA to solve the homeless crisis. The homeless problem is worse than ever, and the only thing the KSRHA has managed to do is enrich the Homeless-Industrial Complex. Solving the homeless crisis would result in defunding the HIC, which could never be allowed.

John Carlson had Dones on his morning show shortly after Dones was hired. Dones is a total nincompoop. All he could do was spout platitudes. Solving homelessness was never in his skill set. Don't let the door hit you on the way out, Marc.; 5/16/23, 2:07 PM
TickTock said...: Tim, ask for a reference. The reference may be wrong (tho often correct). But googling the reference (even if it is wrong) will probably provide accurate information.; 5/16/23, 2:15 PM
tim maguire said...: TickTock, thanks for the suggestion. +1

Apologies for the confusion in my previous response. After conducting a thorough search, I could not find a definitive source or attribution for the exact quote you mentioned

Oh well, I appreciate the effort--and it recognized that I was referencing an earlier query.; 5/16/23, 2:44 PM
madAsHell said...: "Portland will smack the liberal right out of you. I'd vote Trump if he ran for Portland."

Cheers!!; 5/16/23, 3:43 PM
farmgirl said...: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/old-video-of-e-jean-carroll-proves-that-shes-crazier-than-we-thought-video/

Welp. That was different.; 5/16/23, 4:04 PM
wendybar said...: The sniveling lying assholes (McCabe and Strzok) who perpetrated the soft coup against Trump are crying on MSNBC and CNN that Durham put out a false report. These fucking liars should be in prison, or better yet, what we used to do to TRAITORS. I don't usually wish ill on anybody, but I wouldn't be too sad if any of them got struck down and killed by lightening.; 5/16/23, 4:05 PM
farmgirl said...: Haha, Walter.
I’d say a slightly younger version of Pelosi.
P s- same video I posted.; 5/16/23, 4:05 PM
farmgirl said...: I found this via a Gateway, as well.
Joyeux Noelle…

https://youtu.be/comyU6sAZcA; 5/16/23, 4:15 PM
wendybar said...: Meme of the day!!

At this rate, the only ones NOT involved in Russia/Trump collusion were Russia and Trump!!; 5/16/23, 4:25 PM
Andrew said...: Well, the Durham Report is out.
Yay, I guess.
A little... late in the game, but it's out.
I saw there was a thread on the report below, but I missed it.
Anyway, glad we have a little more evidence that our country and our government is shit.
But not a single person will go to jail, or even be charged. When what this report really documents is treason. People should be executed for this, or barring that, imprisoned for life. Government agencies should be razed to the ground. Journalists should at the very least lose their jobs, or their precious Pulitzers. But nothing will happen, and life goes on.
There was a period of time during Trump's presidency when I thought the truth would prevail. I thought the whole plot would be exposed in time for Trump's second term. I was never a Q follower, but I did believe that there was a plan that would bring everything to light. I thought Sessions, or Huber, or Durham, or someone would produce the irrefutable evidence that would shock the country awake to our government's corruption. And the Democrats would fall into the very trap they set for Trump. There would be karma, or poetic justice of some kind.
I will never be that naive again. Maybe some good can still come out of Durham's report, or subsequent developments. But the damage to the country, and the world, is irreparable.; 5/16/23, 4:33 PM
Chest Rockwell said...: Read this and count the ways in which a major news organization frames an event to suit their agenda.

https://apple.news/AvE3YtyynSKiC2JWQZiZ3sw

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-05-15/kid-rock-daniel-penny-jordan-neely-subway-chokehold-manslaughter

It’s so ridiculous.; 5/16/23, 4:45 PM
Mea Sententia said...: Behold, the Dot!; 5/16/23, 5:58 PM
rehajm said...: Given what they are all guilty of why do supposedly lucid people still doubt the left cooked the vote in 2020?

Morons…; 5/16/23, 6:06 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: The sniveling lying assholes (McCabe and Strzok) who perpetrated the soft coup against Trump are crying on MSNBC and CNN that Durham put out a false report. These fucking liars should be in prison, or better yet, what we used to do to TRAITORS. I don't usually wish ill on anybody, but I wouldn't be too sad if any of them got struck down and killed by lightening.

Agreed. They should be cannonized. As in an 155mm howitzer.; 5/16/23, 6:14 PM
Christopher B said...: The first Black Governor in Kentucky might be a Republican, after KY Democrats have had roughly half a century (being charitable) to accomplish it.; 5/16/23, 6:46 PM
Wa St Blogger said...: I will never be that naive again. Maybe some good can still come out of Durham's report, or subsequent developments.

There is still some Naivete to be disabused of. If you read the responses of our lefty contributors, they are rubbing our noses in the fact that no one was convicted of a crime, so there was, in effect nothing wrong. Creating a false accusation, spying on Americans, attempting a coup, imprisoning innocent people, subverting justice, suborning the Justice system are all just silly hijinx to them because the target was deplorable. They, and the politicians they support don't care about undermining our institutions, just that their side was not incarcerated for it.

Nothing good will come of this because there were no consequences for doing what should have been highly illegal. But they were given plausible deniability and thus are free to work their mischief again.

The left, and our lefty bloggers have no shame. "It worked, didn't it?" Is their only criteria for action.; 5/16/23, 6:48 PM
Rocco said...: Re: ChatGBT...
If Google, Cliff Claven, and a Magic 8-Ball had a baby together....; 5/16/23, 7:09 PM
farmgirl said...: Hahahah!! I’m a “late to the dance” type of fan of Cheers. Netflix introduced it to me. Very astute observation of character, you’ve got there.; 5/17/23, 6:05 AM