Althouse: Man in shorts.

January 20, 2025

Man in shorts.

This is what it’s like bringing your engineers to a client meeting pic.twitter.com/J0y7TkUbao
— Alex Cohen (@anothercohen) January 20, 2025

36 comments:

Yancey Ward said...: Fetterman is certainly no slave to fashion.; 1/20/25, 12:17 PM
rhhardin said...: Engineers do it to escape the Peter Principle. Namely avoiding promotion out of a job they like and are good at.; 1/20/25, 12:20 PM
WisRich said...: Seriously?; 1/20/25, 12:21 PM
R C Belaire said...: Well, at least he's consistent.; 1/20/25, 12:22 PM
Michael said...: He's been in a suit and tie before. Dressing down sends a message.; 1/20/25, 12:23 PM
Wince said...: After my high school headmaster called to invite me to a formal scholarship award event, I showed up in a stained white undershirt and jeans, he said, "Glad you dressed for the event."; 1/20/25, 12:25 PM
Jamie said...: I'm glad he seems to have recovered (and then some!) from his stroke. But this affectation is just silly - as if it makes him more "authentically" a Man of the People. It's like Peter Gabriel's face paint or something - don't be scared, Fetterman, you will be recognized even in long pants!; 1/20/25, 12:25 PM
john said...: I wear shorts mostly becuase of the climate I live in but mostly becuase of ongoing nerve pain from knee replacement a few years back. I wonder if Fetterman has similar pain issues exascerbated by pant legs.; 1/20/25, 12:26 PM
Dude1394 said...: Silly; 1/20/25, 12:31 PM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: Still more respectful than Michelle Obama. Showing up is 80% of the job when you're a senator.; 1/20/25, 12:31 PM
Aggie said...: I think it's ridiculous posing, but accept that he probably thinks it isn't. Lucky for him it wasn't outside.; 1/20/25, 12:33 PM
Jamie said...: Fair enough, john. And we are not in a societal place in which men, like women, can choose (without being seen as making a "statement") whether to wear trousers or a skirt, unless it's a kilt. I have plenty of friends who are terribly bothered by tags at the back of a neckline without any surgery or condition, so if Fetterman has nerve pain exacerbated by fabric touching the knee, I withdraw my dismissive criticism..; 1/20/25, 12:37 PM
Michael Fitzgerald said...: Libtard douchebag pissing in the punch bowl.; 1/20/25, 12:39 PM
Enigma said...: Plus, many engineers are terrible managers. The ability to track 1,000 facts at once works great for technical tasks, but managers need at least minimal social skills.; 1/20/25, 12:40 PM
boatbuilder said...: It was once sort of endearing, especially since he had a stroke. Now it's just stupid and rude.; 1/20/25, 12:43 PM
mccullough said...: Fetterman is 6’8. Guy that size is always coming from or going to a pick up game.; 1/20/25, 12:49 PM
Peachy said...: My guess is Fetterman will play the "I'm a centrist" BS - but still vote with his corrupt party.; 1/20/25, 12:56 PM
Jaq said...: In certain circles, Carhartt caries a certain cachet. Plus, if you buy an XL from them at Tractor Supply, it's gonna be an XL.; 1/20/25, 1:00 PM
Jaq said...: A friend told me that in college, he said that if you liked your job, be sure to miss a spot shaving most days. He was ex military.; 1/20/25, 1:01 PM
Former Illinois resident said...: Doggie Doug Emhoff looks most uncomfortable, as if sucking on lemon for duration of ceremony. Expect him to go to NYC, Kamala back to SF. There's a discernible cold chill, their marriage-of-convenience now redundant, divorce in offing.; 1/20/25, 1:18 PM
Dave Begley said...: Disgraceful and disrespectful.; 1/20/25, 1:20 PM
Peachy said...: It's painful enough having to look at the cabal of hand-sitting corrupt has-beens (Hillary, Crook Joe, Puppet Kamala, GWB etc...) I didn't miss seeing Michelle's frowning face at all. I think she made the right decision.; 1/20/25, 1:21 PM
Old and slow said...: He is a bit grotesque and behaves poorly, but he does speak more sensibly than most (all?) of the D senators.; 1/20/25, 1:36 PM
Flat Tire said...: He was no less appropriate than Lauren Sanchez.; 1/20/25, 1:42 PM
mccullough said...: They say the same about Trump. Fetterman in acceptable MAGA apparel.; 1/20/25, 2:08 PM
Eric the Fruit Bat said...: Fetterman should have helped take up the folding chairs.; 1/20/25, 2:32 PM
Peachy said...: Lauren Sanchez is not a member of Trump's cabinet, nor is she a member of congress. (that said - she sure went full O'Henry Bar Heiress); 1/20/25, 2:33 PM
Interested Bystander said...: What an unkempt slob. The senate leadership should have told him to put on a suit or GTFO.; 1/20/25, 2:54 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: A man of the people.; 1/20/25, 3:25 PM
Dave Begley said...: No comment by AA re: Ms. Sanchez' outfit?; 1/20/25, 4:01 PM
holdfast said...: Apparently it works for him and his constituents. And he's more common sense than most other Dem Senators.

At least he is what he is. Better than those Brooks Brothers attired commies.; 1/20/25, 4:16 PM
Nancy Reyes said...: reminds me of the joke that those in Minnesota wear shorts when it is 20 degrees outside, but those in the southern USA panic at 50 degrees. Western PA is not as cold as Minnesota, but it is close. (I've lived in both places).; 1/20/25, 4:56 PM
Enigma said...: Heard from a Canadian: Americans who visit Vancouver BC think they are at the North Pole, while Canadians think they are in the tropics.; 1/20/25, 5:26 PM
tim maguire said...: I suspect that that is exactly what he is—he has cultivated his look and won’t alter it for anyone.; 1/20/25, 5:30 PM
chuck said...: Carhartt caries a certain cachet.

I buy their T-shirts for the pockets, good place to stash glasses.; 1/20/25, 7:13 PM
chuck said...: Make shorts great again.; 1/20/25, 7:15 PM