There was thin snow in the air, but nothing to show for it on the ground. So much for the warnings of 2 to 6 inches. It was a little blustery, and we were the only ones out there, witnessing the nonappearance of the sun and immersed in lively conversation."What's another way to say 'lively conversation'? I don't like the cliché" — I asked Grok, knowing I'd get nothing useful, just trash like "electric back-and-forth," "crackling exchange," "vibrant sparring," and "kinetic banter." Or maybe if I'd thought of one of those by myself, I'd like it. That's the trouble with help-seeking. What you get is tainted with irritating helpfulness.
"What's another way to say 'irritating helpfulness'?" — "patronizing eagerness," "meddlesome benevolence," "grating do-goodery," "insufferable solicitude," "cloying caretaking," "smothering support," "irksome officiousness," "fussy do-gooding," "tedious tutelage"....
"What's another way to say 'write about whatever you like in the comments'?" — "Say the thing you’re actually thinking," "Ramble freely—no judgment zone," “Vent, rave, or tangent away," "Comment like nobody’s watching (but we are, and we want it)," "I’m genuinely curious what’s crossing your mind—tell me," "Unleash your brain dump"....
It wasn't that cold out there, but look at the glamorous furs I wore:
Mga Post
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Prof looks like a femme fatale in a Cold War spy movie! CC, JSM
Surprisingly good Trombone self-accompaniament
In tune, fast triple tonguing. Melchior Franck
Pretty fair imitation of Dr. Zhivago's "good friend."
"Craic" is a good Irish word for lively conversation.
That’s a plethora of fur!!
Very fetching.
""What's another way to say 'irritating helpfulness?"
Socialism
“That’s a plethora of fur!!”
What’s another way to say plethora of fur?
"What's another way to say 'irritating helpfulness'?"
Mansplaining
Lush profusion of luxurious pelage
Best pic of you ever ;-)
Gay reparte.
This took me down a rabbit hole when I looked up what the guy was into: "accelerationist movement" among other far right and far left ideologies. A truly OPEN mind.
This just happened today here near Hoover Dam and it's weird.
"Self-Described Terrorist Carries Out Car Attack in Nevada"
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/02/20/self-described-terrorist-carries-out-car-attack-in-nevada-n3812122
Lovely
What a great picture! I wouldn't last a weekend, even wrapped in those gorgeous furs.
Many years ago I considered a job teaching business school Legal Studies at Bemidji, Minnesota, the "First City on the Mississippi" according to the Chamber of Commerce. There seemed a certain symmetry in that because a branch of my forebears were from the "Last City on the Mississippi." Luckily a helpful friend gave me a quick tutorial on winter in the upper Midwest before any harm was done.
""Craic" is a good Irish word for lively conversation."
The Craic is our favorite pub in Dunedin, NZ. On The Octagon. Looking forward to our upcoming visit.
A furry plethora?
Raisa Gorbachev
A long stretch in federal prison for the Demoness Susan Rice!
A woman in full!
New Zealand: The nation that has 23 identified terrorist organizations and chooses to have anti-terror law enforcement target a faux-Christian organization for training purposes.
Wisconsin Cover Lady.
How do we know that you aren’t a Russian spy?
What a great picture of Althouse!
The “photo” of me is based on a screenshot taken from a video that was on the blog on February 7.
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2026/02/meade-catches-me-out-in-sunrise-and.html
No animals were sacrificed in the making of that picture.
"How do we know that you aren’t a Russian spy?"
We'll ask Inga! She's our go-to girl for all things Russia, Russia, Russia.
Wonderful pic
I thought new zealand had become sensible
Banner of Donald Trump unfurled at Justice Department headquarters ~ Reuters
Will save on location costs when they film the next series of Man in the High Castle.
I’m thinking about AI also about building a minimalist cottage in Arizona in my backyard to live in 6 months of year. I’d spend March through October in my cottage in Tipperary.
Our fur-bearing hostess: "Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety,"
Excellent picture of you. Scary picture of your bleak, hostile environment.
Blogbushka !
A friend once visited relatives in Winnipeg for a week in January. They feared she would freeze to death, so they gave her a beaver coat. I imagine she looked like our hostess.
"I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core."
I had a Kazakh friend give me a chapka made of red fox - my customary one when I was working there was black rabbit, which I thought was plenty warm, but that fox, wow. Perfect temperature regulation.
This question is for Meade: regarding the fur coat -- was there any apparel being worn under the coat.....
https://freebeacon.com/crime/we-feel-trapped-maryland-judge-authorizes-eviction-of-prince-georges-condo-residents-besieged-by-homeless-encampment/
“The Justice Department has traditionally operated with a degree of independence from the White House.“
Lololol
Here’s the banner (thanks kak!)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/banner-president-donald-trump-displayed-doj-headquarters-washington-rcna259795
Cue holder garland reno (thats hilarious.
More merriment to end a work week in which I watched other people work hard while I hardly worked (but I offered advice and encouragement)
via CFP
Rush Limbaugh and the Frogman 1991
Rush to Excellence
The Great Rush Limbaugh
Talent on loan from God
. . . having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
https://youtu.be/05ymUmAY7wQ?si=bgvtdTqtVkY0866V
Yep he waa the sage of the age
That’s an AI photo of Ann?
Ann pelted with pelts. She has skin in the game.
Oh dear.
Spies like us!
It sleeted today. We learned that word in third grade and never heard it again. Once I thought it sleeted, but it graupeled -- something we didn't learn about in school. It must have sleeted many times, but I thought it was hail or freezing rain or just funny snow.
"I've traveled the world
only to learn
I must return
From Russia with Love."
How did curling make it into the Olympics? How did bowling not make it into the Olympics? If you could play pool on ice or croquet in the snow, would those be Olympic sports?
The company that sold "Philosopher's Football" shirts to New Statesman readers had a shirt that proudly asked why it was that Britain only won the World Cup when Labour was in power. I thought maybe somebody could come up with a shirt about US Olympic hockey gold, but then I remembered that in 1980 Jimmy Carter was still president.
“ That’s an AI photo of Ann?”
It began with a screenshot from video, then I used grok to dress me in furs. The face was changed mainly to increase the resolution. The video picture was fuzzy. It also adjusted the color. The video picture had very heated up color from the sunrise.
"That's the trouble with help-seeking. What you get is tainted with irritating helpfulness."
The topic at tonight's AA meeting was "emotional sobriety". It sounds like it belongs in that list up there with "tedious tutelage". I didn't share, I usually don't when that's the topic. How do you share about something that seems like you have to say you suck at, in order to say you are getting good at. It's a thin thread, but maybe not a confusing miasma.
I sort of get it. It's about saying something to help somebody new.
It’s easy to find high quality used fur coats on line. I think I could get something for $1,000. A bit more for the hat.
“ tonight's AA meeting ”
At first I thought that referred to this comments thread.
Less red. More mud.
"At first I thought that referred to this comments thread."
You have to have real coffee, and cookies. Nothing virtual.
A history of curling from The History Guy
It's a pretty old sport with documentation going back to the Middle Ages. It was part of the first couple of modern Winter Olympics though there was some controversy around medals awarded in 1924. Then it got dropped until the 1980s. I don't think THG gave an explanation of why but I suspect it was the small number of countries that would actually field teams.
everyone treats AI as such a fun toy. In reality it's a totalitarians wet dream. The regime in power can create what ever truth it wants to, in any form it wants.
But yeah, enjoy the higher electric prices, the waste of fresh water, and the destruction of empty places to serve your tech gods.
they get richer, you get Universal Basic income.
On the "Trump is bad for comedy" post, I thought of the catch phrase WNBC radio used for their billboard promo of Howard Stern and Don Imus, back when they were still at the same radio station. "If we weren't so bad, we wouldn't be so good".
Isn't that Trump? Kind of?
“What’s another way to say plethora of fur?”
Conspicuous consumption.
We used to have a commenter - ironrailsironweights - who was very into a plethora of fur, iykwimaityd. CC, JSM
I remember when the progressives went apeshit over Aretha Franklin wearing a fur to Clinton’s inauguration
I knew a woman in Chicago ~50 years ago who had a tattered but very warm wolf-skin coat she wore in winter. People (always women, as I recall) regularly abused her for it on public transport, and she told them when her grandfather shot those wolves in Alaska 100 years before, wolves were not endangered, but people were. Besides, they were already long dead, so throwing away the coat would be wasteful. That usually shut them up.
I believe artifical intelligence is a tech version of Mrs. Malaprop. It just doesn't really understand what the conversation is about or what the words it is using mean but it talks busily away.
Now I'm imagining Aretha Franklin singing "You make me feel, you make me feel, you make me feel like a natural were-wolf".
Listening to NPR this afternoon, regarding the Epstein fallout cases. Andrew, most notably. Much thoughtful discussion on how these are not legal cases, but more like public shaming. People resigning from positions for emails that were too chummy with the convicted sex criminal, Epstein, some even aiding in his public rehabilitation. A careful analysis of the 'tribal' nature of the retributions, without once mentioning party affiliation or political valence. And of course by using these secondary figures, the 'guy with the talent agency that had to resign' here, the 'Goldman Sachs lawyer that resigned' there, there's no need to mention her 'Obama' White House legal council connections, there's no need to bring up the name Clinton. And Andrew's case discussion carefully tiptoes past the sex crimes with underage girls, not digging into them but carefully noting them while discussing the actual investigation on secrets disclosures. Noting them a few times, just in case you might have forgotten.
And oddly enough, no public investigative references to what has been uncovered so far in the American political connections. Odd eh? Almost like they need to pre-bunk the story first, lay a little groundwork before broaching the difficult subject of the Clintons , not just Bill's hounddog proclivities but that whole 'charitable' Clinton initiative - how did that get funded again? Lay the groundwork, get us all thinking the right way for when the Clinton dirt starts getting uncovered, and the Obama dirty tricks connections start coming to light. As they mentioned a few times, hey, the guy is dead, been dead a long time, now. No big deal, right? Ancient history. Amirite?
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George Mitchell was an Epstein guy who kept in touch with him after his pedophile conviction. George is a piece of shit.
That's how to survive the freeze.
Looking fabulous. I wish you had been my Con Law prof. Mine was Charles Alan Wright. Class of 80.
That's a furry good image, Althouse.
Beaver (ha) County, PA’s Joe Namath looked good in fur, as do you!
“Surfeit of fur,” almost any time that people say “plethora,” they mean surfeit.
Of course it’s AI, people. Do you really think any wife of mine would wear anything but a respectable Republican cloth coat?
And one more thing. We’re keeping the puppy.
Meade is not a crook.
Some may say she's smiling at the camera, but I think she's smiling at the cameraman.
Is that Yuriatin in the background?
Sarah Palin: McCain's VP Pick In Vogue | HuffPost Latest News https://share.google/IVIq62VW3aNw07ZAH
Beautiful. Thought of Laura from Dr Z.
’…almost any time that people say “plethora,” they mean surfeit.’
That sounds like a surfeit of bullshit to me. ;)
A banner featuring a photo of Donald Trump and the words “Make America Safe Again” was hung from the Justice Department’s headquarters in Washington on Thursday in one of the most public signs of the president’s influence over a department that once brought criminal charges against him.
The Justice Department has traditionally operated with a degree of independence from the White House. That separation, however, has eroded during Trump’s second term as the Justice Department has gone after his perceived political foes.
Is this The Babylon Bee? Do they even read their own stuff?
Bond girl.
Right out of “Doctor Zhivago”. Cue up “Lara’s Theme”, please.
Bagoh - my guess is they found leftwing ideology and had to throw in the 'right wing" because reasons. All the other items on the left are leftwing.
The garland ministry of love made it safe for criminals
According To Hoyt – Born Free https://share.google/4JjntR8P8b1Cq4KhL
Oh
https://x.com/kevinnbass/status/2025133451242766572
list"
Plethora is a number surfeit is a quantity
Calling Wu from “Deadwood”:
“COCKSUCKAH!!!”
https://x.com/amuse/status/2024778748587819175?s=20
"Plethora is a number surfeit is a quantity"
Only if you have a limited sense of the possibilities of the English language, like if you are going by a web dictionary, for example, rather than widely reading literary fiction, writers like Robert Penn Warren, or William Faulkner, Melville, etc, you know, writers who had to go by their own readings of Chaucer, Shakespeare, the great British Romantic poets like Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge, Keats, sure then you can believe whatever the inter-webs tells you.
Probably 20% of the time I have seen "plethora" used, it was not cringe.
If you were to try to parse the sentence "I felt the baby kick today" using a web dictionary, you would be out of luck, because no sense of the word "baby" can apply to what they insist you refer to as a "fetus."
Web dictionaries are just one more arm of the propaganda machine they have going to condition us.
an annoying intrusion?
Better an annoying intrusion than an annoying extrusion. Ewww.
George Mitchell was an Epstein guy who kept in touch with him after his pedophile conviction. George is a piece of shit.
And now, your tax dollars fund the Mitchell Scholarships (like Marshalls or Fullbrights but for Ireland and NI). One wonders what young people have to subject themselves to in order to get one.
George mitchell employed george nader who later worked for irwis and the uae princes
Despite his personal foibles
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has told Newsweek that a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agent fired "defensive shots" at a driver after he "intentionally ran over" another federal agent.
Immigration agents shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, on March 15, 2025, in South Padre Island, Texas, but the involvement of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) HSI unit was not publicly disclosed at the time.
“Ruben’s family has been pursuing transparency and accountability for nearly a year now and will continue to do so for as long as it takes. It is critical that there is a full and fair investigation into why HSI was present at the scene of a traffic collision and why a federal officer shot and killed a US citizen as he was trying to comply with instructions from the local law enforcement officers directing traffic," Charles M. Stam and Alex Stamm, attorneys for the family of Ruben Ray Martinez, told Newsweek via email.
And the beat goes on . . .
Meade at 550 - That was one of the greatest ever political addresses. "A man from Texas", if I recall correctly.
Did the Orange Guy really say "ARE THEY REAL" YUP, thats a big 10-4 good buddy such a jokester and immune from it all, just business ma'am
Way cool pic!
Craziest shit I have read this year.
I weep for humanity.
Furrylicious.
When I first looked at the lake picture, I thought it was a massive killer whale lurking on the left side.
You look great in the fur. When I first saw you I thought of "Gorky Park".
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