Althouse: At the Smoky Café...

June 29, 2023

At the Smoky Café...

... there's no sunrise, but go ahead and talk all night.

35 comments:

Limited blogger said...: My Mets are hosting the Milwaukee Brewers for the rubber game of their 3 game matchup.

If the Mets lose, they will have not won a series for the entire month of June.

They are imploding. They have the largest payroll, but are not hitting or pitching.

I forgot that the Brewers were previously an American League team, descendants of the Seattle Pilots.; 6/29/23, 8:00 PM
gilbar said...: cleared up here in iowa.. Very nice now; 6/29/23, 8:10 PM
Jaq said...: Paris is showing us what an actual insurrection looks like. As a matter of fact, it looks a lot like Portland or Minneapolis, but nothing like J6.; 6/29/23, 8:28 PM
Rocco said...: Waa-aah, at Smokey Joe's Café
Waa-aah, at Smokey Joe's Café
...
One day while I was drinking Bud Lite (at Smokey Joe's Café)
Just sittin', diggin', feelin' alrite (at Smokey Joe's Café)
A chick came walking through the door
That I had never seen before
...
I could smell her sweet perfume
She smiled at me, my heart went boom
Then everybody in the room (at Smokey Joe's Café)
They said "man be careful, that chick used to be Smokey Joe"
....
Yes, I know I'll never drink again (at Smokey Joe's Café)
And so we'll never meet again (at Smokey Joe's Café)
I'd rather drink my Modelo
At Jack's or Juan's or Carmelo's
Than taking my chances down (at Smokey Joe's Café)
...
Waa-aah, at Smokey Joe's Café
Waa-aah, at Smokey Joe's Café; 6/29/23, 8:33 PM
Mid-Life Lawyer said...: I'm in Chicago for a few days. It was smoky when we arrived yesterday but much better today. The taxi driver said that Tuesday was way worse than yesterday.

I stopped following MLB when they knee jerk canceled the All-Star game in Atlanta a few years ago, but I am going to void my boycott for one day to attend the Friday afternoon game at Wrigley tomorrow because it's a pop cultural event that I want to attend with my new partner. The Cubs game is not why we are here. We are here because I was born here and she had never been to Chicago and we wanted to do a big city thing. We did the Architecture Tour last night and we were at the Art Institute all day today with the exception our walking to the nearby Giordano's for lunch before returning.

My new partner is a Korean woman who is my age. She married a US serviceman in the early eighties and she was widowed several years ago. I was calling her my GFFL which I thought was better than just girlfriend but still not quite right. We considered fiancé but that term also seems a little silly at this age even though we probably will marry. We settled on partner, agreeing that the gays having co-opted that term has not diminished the appropriateness for our situation. The weather seems like it will be perfect. Hope so. We leave on Sunday.; 6/29/23, 8:52 PM
Limited blogger said...: Update: Mets lose

It was a 4 game series with Milwaukee, Brewers taking 3 of 4.; 6/29/23, 9:06 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: Perfect weather here in Pugetopolis. 75F, partly cloudy skies, NO SMOKE. Smoke season here, if it occurs is August and September, maybe October.

July 4 forecast is 89F. An old saying is summer starts on July 5. July 4 is usually cold and cloudy. Not this year.; 6/29/23, 9:36 PM
Political Junkie said...: Clarence Thomas has brass balls.; 6/29/23, 9:40 PM
Original Mike said...: Cleared up in northern Wisconsin, too.; 6/29/23, 10:02 PM
hpudding said...: It’s interesting that with 13-minute videos questioning the safety of vaccine regulation and decades of precedent overturned by the courts to prevent colleges from assembling student bodies that actually reflect society and reverse pernicious discrimination, only the shortest comments seem to be going through. Brevity is great when such fundamental changes and outrageous claims are made! The last thing we’d want are literate and well-informed responses to things like that; entertainment, servile agreement and frivolous applause is much better.; 6/30/23, 12:51 AM
farmgirl said...: Yeah, guys- b/c it’s HERE. Smoke rolled in last night and it’s very bad this morning. I can’t say it smells bad. So far. I have a slight headache- which is fine.

Whiskeybum, pretty sure it’s you that’s visiting this weekend in Burlington? I hope it’s better for you there.
Have a good one!!; 6/30/23, 3:57 AM
Humperdink said...: The PA Department of Environment Protection has issued a Code Orange alert due to deteriorating air quality. They have asked all residents to turn off all their natural gas appliances.; 6/30/23, 5:16 AM
The Vault Dweller said...: So if this new case means that discriminating based on race for college admissions is impermissible, but taking an individual's unique experience with dealing with racism is ok, does that mean if this new practice disproportionately impacts Asian and White applicants that that practice would be deemed racially discriminatory and thus back to impermissible? Or does it mean that practices that disproportionately impact particular races are no longer presumed impermissible?; 6/30/23, 5:17 AM
wendybar said...: THIS is why we point and laugh at their nonsense....They say something, and do something other than what they say ....EVERY time.

Jeremy Redfern
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Jun 29, 2023
@JeremyRedfernFL

Dude… race-based college admissions have been against the law in California since 1996.

Gavin Newsom
@GavinNewsom
They want to whitewash our nation's history.

They want to bring America back to the era of book bans and segregated campuses.

We cannot let them.

Rightwing_Vet🐾
@Florida_Veteran

"They want to bring back...segregated campuses."

UC Berkeley hosts ‘black only graduation ceremony’ defying Civil Rights laws; ‘illegal, unconstitutional’; 6/30/23, 5:26 AM
wendybar said...: 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐠 🏳️‍🌈
@HarmfulOpinion
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Replying to @GavinNewsom
Progressives in 2023: Treating blacks equally is ‘whitewashing.’ And removing pornography from public schools is ‘book banning’
2:04 PM · Jun 29, 2023; 6/30/23, 5:27 AM
Narayanan said...: Political Junkie said...
Clarence Thomas has brass balls.
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FJB topic of interest at some point!
Joe Biden to Father of Former Navy SEAL Killed in Benghazi: ‘Did Your Son Always Have Balls the Size of Cue Balls?’; 6/30/23, 5:52 AM
wendybar said...: THIS is why we laugh at them...

Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
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Elizabeth Warren claimed native American status while at Harvard, taking credit for being the first native American woman of color hired by Harvard Law School.

Elizabeth Warren
@SenWarren
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An extremist Supreme Court has once again reversed decades of settled law, rolled back the march toward racial justice, and narrowed educational opportunity for all. I won't stop fighting for young people with big dreams who deserve an equal chance to pursue their future.
4:41 PM · Jun 29, 2023; 6/30/23, 6:02 AM
Tina Trent said...: Hpudding: as I have said before, you hardly seem like Harvard material. Maybe a prep school or four. Feeling guilty about legacy?; 6/30/23, 6:26 AM
tim maguire said...: From my word of the day email:

“But as a critical mass of mustache wearers has gathered, the style has slowly become free of the subculture associations it garnered in the 1980s.”
Shira Telushkin; The Mustache Is Back; The New York Times; Jun 1, 2023.; 6/30/23, 6:39 AM
Jaq said...: I have a mountain view, so I’m usually aware of smoke, and usually it’s something that you see in August, but you would never smell it, and I have never had trouble seeing a peak that is thirty miles away if it’s otherwise clear. This is next level. Hills eight miles away look milky white right now on a clear day, and it’s not even bad today.; 6/30/23, 6:40 AM
wendybar said...: When the Feds start targeting REAL insider traders, like Nancy Pelosi let me know. Otherwise this just looks like they are targeting ANYBODY who has anything to do with Trump. It is getting more and more ridiculous every day the hoops they are jumping through to get TRUMP.

https://news.yahoo.com/feds-charge-investors-truth-social-174245540.html; 6/30/23, 6:49 AM
Leland said...: Sunrises are a thing of the past.; 6/30/23, 6:51 AM
wendybar said...: "Do you find it interesting that even the far left can't help but compare itself to the Nazis?"

"A few weeks ago, Hollywood actress, presumed leftist, and we can only assume "historical scholar" Barbara Hershey posted the following tweet with the text:

It didn't start with gas chambers.

It started with one party controlling the media.

One party controlling the message.

One party deciding what is truth.

One party censoring speech and silencing opposition.

One party dividing citizens into "us" and "Them" and calling on their supporters harass"
"Them

It started when good people turned a blind eye let it happen."

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/06/does_hollywood_actress_barbara_hershey_realize_she_compared_the_far_left_to_the_nazis.html; 6/30/23, 7:08 AM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: @SenWarren
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An extremist Supreme Court has once again reversed decades of settled law, rolled back the march toward racial justice, and narrowed educational opportunity for all. I won't stop fighting for young people with big dreams who deserve an equal chance to pursue their future.
4:41 PM · Jun 29, 2023

My reply to her:

The real question is why Democrat-run schools fail so miserably at educating Black Kids. It's almost like they're designed to fail to keep Black Americans in poverty and voting for Democrats. What a scam.; 6/30/23, 7:14 AM
Ralph L said...: Is it called Canadian Crud or Canada Crud?
It's come all the way to North Carolina, and it's not even winter. I thought I was coming down with something after my walk last night.; 6/30/23, 7:15 AM
boatbuilder said...: The talking points are out! "Decades of Precedent!" Rinse and repeat.

Racial discrimination is the law of the land! How dare the Supreme Court say that racial discrimination is unconstitutional.

(Sorry--more low humor. Actually a rhetorical device, but whatever).; 6/30/23, 7:16 AM
gilbar said...: Just to be clear, Plessy v. Ferguson was established law, for MORE THAN fifty years
"Decades of Precedent!"
Of course, the dems didn't want to get rid of THAT One either; 6/30/23, 7:44 AM
Jaq said...: “ The last thing we’d want are literate and well-informed responses to things like that…”

If you want to sound smart, you should run your comments through GPT4, and tell it to rewrite your post as if you had two extra neurons to rub together. I would suggest that you leave out “literate,” as it’s irrelevant to your point, or maybe you are just a sloppy thinker; the final clause suggests community college, not that there’s anything wrong with that. I have never denied that I went to State U, myself.

Harvard and Yale served America better when there were only 100 million of us.; 6/30/23, 7:58 AM
Humperdink said...: What if the college applicant is half Black/ half Asian and has a legacy parent?; 6/30/23, 8:04 AM
Drago said...: Puddin': "The last thing we’d want are literate and well-informed responses to things like that; entertainment, servile agreement and frivolous applause is much better."

An absolutely spot on description of lefty/LLR fan favorite The View.; 6/30/23, 8:16 AM
Caroline said...: My vote for Orange Man continues to pay dividends.; 6/30/23, 8:26 AM
Humperdink said...: Want to know how brain dead our media is? This morning a writer in my hometown newspaper wrote an article on the above mentioned PA DEP's code orange alert. After reading it, I wrote an email to him asking him to check on the DEP advising PA residents to shutoff their gas stoves during the duration of the alert. He didn't get my joke. He responding that he would check ... and he did! He responded again detailing the Feds view of gas appliances but could find nothing about PA's DEP advisory. Made me laugh.; 6/30/23, 8:31 AM
Narayanan said...: Racial discrimination is the law of the land! How dare the Supreme Court say that racial discrimination is unconstitutional.
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constitutional un-constitution can be corrected only via civil war; 6/30/23, 10:37 AM
Michael K said...: Another view from the left (unless this is parody).

https://twitter.com/ericareport/status/1674453321078415362

"No black person will be able to succeed in a merit based system which is exactly why Affirmative Action based programs were needed."

JEB Stuart could not have said it better.; 6/30/23, 10:46 AM
walter said...: Brainstorming ways to maintain "diversity".
https://youtu.be/Diw3vcO_CVU; 6/30/23, 2:14 PM