Althouse: At the Friday Night Café...

June 5, 2026

At the Friday Night Café...

... you can talk about whatever you want.

We got rained out of the sunrise, but we got out after the rain:

60 comments:

narciso said...: I was surprised about this offering

https://share.google/HQRpn7qmoPvJZApqB; 6/5/26, 7:58 PM
William50 said...: From the earlier Hendrix thread...

Kai Akker said...
Couldn't be that great, William50, because I don't even know who or what SRV is.

Well Kai, SRV is Stevie Ray Vaughan and here is his rendition of Little Wing. In my opinion he has it all over Clapton on this song.
Little Wing - SRV; 6/5/26, 8:01 PM
narciso said...: https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2026/06/05/guy-benson-hamawy-n2428943; 6/5/26, 8:10 PM
Iman said...: When the rain comes
They shake their sleepy heads
And climb right back in bed
When the rain comes
If the rain comes; 6/5/26, 8:12 PM
bagoh20 said...: As I predicted from the beginning, no Republican will be permitted to win CA Governor or L.A. Mayor unless they get 60% of the real votes, and the Dems don't care how it looks or if you know they cheated. They don't care. If you want to live where democracy is actually practiced, you need to leave CA.; 6/5/26, 8:12 PM
narciso said...: We shall see, there are reasons of concern; 6/5/26, 8:14 PM
narciso said...: An adaptation Of a maclean procedural

https://youtu.be/dF1msqtDpIs?si=p2GdIsKjHFPuWc7I; 6/5/26, 8:17 PM
Original Mike said...: "Dems don't care how it looks or if you know they cheated. They don't care."

I think they do care. The fact that we know and are helpless to do anything about it is an humiliation they get a kick out of.; 6/5/26, 8:26 PM
Original Mike said...: I've got my fingers crossed over the supreme court case as to the constitutionality of post-election-day voting. I believe it would only be for federal elections, but they're the most important ones.; 6/5/26, 8:32 PM
Curious George said...: SRV died not far from Madison. After a show at Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, WI, he hopped in a helicopter bound for Chicago. Dense fog in the area contributed to the pilot flying into the ski hill next to the venue killing all aboard.; 6/5/26, 8:34 PM
narciso said...: Depends who writes its like russian roulette; 6/5/26, 8:37 PM
Original Mike said...: Rained in northern Wisconsin this evening, which we desperately needed. Need more.; 6/5/26, 8:45 PM
narciso said...: Rep. Ro Khanna Beclowns Himself: Epstein Crusader Campaigns for Alleged Woman-Abuser Graham Platner – Twitchy https://share.google/39wCGLP7B0fEuGFB6; 6/5/26, 8:48 PM
Mason G said...: Here We Go Again: Massive Tranche of Tens of Thousands of LA Votes Yields ZERO for Spencer Pratt

Live updates from Los Angeles election officials on primary night revealed a statistical impossibility that observers found difficult to dismiss as routine variance. In the contest for mayor, as the share of ballots tallied moved from 39.3 percent to 42.4 percent, incumbent Karen Bass added more than twelve thousand votes to her total, Nithya Raman added nearly ten thousand votes to her total, but Spencer Pratt added none at all. Other candidates continued to accumulate support in the same tranche.

https://jdrucker.com/here-we-go-again-massive-tranche-of-tens-of-thousands-of-la-votes-yields-zero-for-spencer-pratt/

Red flag… 🚩🚩🚩

39.3% vote in…
Karen Bass had 117,579
Spencer Pratt had 86,323

42.4% vote in…
Karen Bass 130,429
Spencer Pratt 86,323

Virtually every candidate received votes except for Spencer Pratt. Impossible.

https://x.com/MJTruthUltra/status/2062017289306722360

Anything to see here? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?; 6/5/26, 8:54 PM
Old and slow said...: I just found out that the audio recording of Klaus Kinski reviewing Trader Joe's is actually a comedian who does a very convincing imitation. I'm gutted, and also a bit disappointed in myself for swallowing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5JCrSXkJY&list=RDb4pYANUAJAI&index=6; 6/5/26, 9:07 PM
Original Mike said...: Someone said, in the Soviet Union the government wanted the citizens to know they were being lied to. It's a method of subjugation.; 6/5/26, 9:09 PM
narciso said...: What vaclav havel said; 6/5/26, 9:10 PM
Iman said...: “Dense fog in the area contributed to the pilot flying into the ski hill next to the venue killing all aboard.”

It was a great thing and fortunate for SRV that - from all reports - he got clean and put his bad habits in the rearview mirror before he met the Lord. One of the supremely talented guitarists who (along with Hendrix, Gary Moore, Jeff Beck and a select few others IMHO) that made it look effortless, like the instrument was an extension of their bodies.; 6/5/26, 9:13 PM
Eva Marie said...: O no. Trump caught sleeping on the job!
https://x.com/thericanmemes/status/2062700966848111084?s=46; 6/5/26, 9:14 PM
Original Mike said...: lol; 6/5/26, 9:21 PM
Mark said...: Saw SRV's final show at Alpine. Helicopter accident after.

Robert Cray opened, SRV just blew the crowd away, Clapton was the closer. After multiple songs of tepid-at-best applause, Clapton played his old hits as he was about to lose the audience.

SRV was the clear star of the show. So sad to have lost him right when he was sober and peaking artistically.; 6/5/26, 9:22 PM
Peachy said...: smooth jazz 101. up next... smooth jazz; 6/5/26, 9:23 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: That increase in Bass votes vs. Pratt is possible, if they were all votes from black neighborhoods. Demographics of City of Los Angeles 2020-

White 29 percent
Black 09 percent
Asian 12 percent
Hispanic 46 percent

56 percent "commonly" spoke a non-English language.; 6/5/26, 9:24 PM
Kai Akker said...: --- Well Kai, SRV is Stevie Ray Vaughan and here is his rendition of Little Wing. In my opinion he has it all over Clapton on this song.

@William50--Wasn't your contention that the Stevie Ray version was better than Hendrix's original? I did subsequently manage to deduce who SRV was and gave it a listen. It's a note-for-note replication of Jimi's song, at least for the first three minutes of it. The jamming goes on longer but also sounds totally like a Hendrix arrangement. He does an amazing job of reproducing it, but he doesn't sing the vocal and so we lose the lyrics as well.

Clapton's cover version was pretty good, IMO, and was fairly distinct even from Hendrix's slightly longer versions of what is really a short, sweet song.; 6/5/26, 9:26 PM
Peachy said...: Democrats are all corrupt assholes. all of them, everywhere.; 6/5/26, 9:28 PM
Iman said...: Clapton’s was comparatively wooden.; 6/5/26, 9:33 PM
Iman said...: When you’re right, you’re right, Peachy!; 6/5/26, 9:34 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: SpaceX won’t make the S&P 500 ~ Alphaville
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/112ca91d-a5d9-460e-90c1-a2997115ff09

Choose your index wisely

SpaceX IPO shows Musk’s genius is in myth-making. How exactly the company plans to support its massive valuation is not obvious.

Did I read that $20bn of the raise is being used to pay back the banks who financed the Twitter purchase (at the wrong price) Really ??

Yes really. (Though interestingly took me four consecutive questions with Gemini AI to get the answer I already knew. First three failed from completely to incorrectly understand the folding of Twitter/X/xAI into SpaceX.

Might seem like AI isn't quite where it should be to meet GS expectations! 🤣 ).; 6/5/26, 9:34 PM
Kai Akker said...: There was a lot of technical damage done today in the Wall Street trading of American stocks and global markets. Technical damage can be repaired, although it usually takes a little time, but this is a market of top built upon top built upon top, x 2 or 3. And sentiment as reflected in the market's extreme is extremely one-sided.; 6/5/26, 9:36 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Video: A Democrat in DC says she hates she’s forced to admit the Reflecting Pool now looks good.; 6/5/26, 9:50 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: I’m glad S&P held the line on Strategy and SpaceX. I can’t think of a higher impact on the public perception of their IRA's and the casino aspect of markets if this were to be allowed.

Investors participating in the IPO will be financing execution that has not yet even started to happen, facilitating the lucrative exit of pre-IPO shareholders, ceding any meaningful levers of control, and enabling underwriting banks to de-risk the exposure they had taken on to secure the IPO mandate in the first place.

$1.75T. Lots of risk. Minimum 15% return expectation. More realistically you should be expecting something much greater. Needs to generate over $260B in free cash flow. That's 16x SpaceX 2025 revenue of $16B.

In no scenario can SpaceX ever support this level of valuation.

Good luck.; 6/5/26, 10:01 PM
Achilles said...: India rejected the BRICS currency.

Retards still think the Iran war is about the Mullahs in Iran.

Gas prices are already falling.

Abraham Accords II will probably land around October 15th.

Cuba will probably be receiving aid around August.

Starmer should be out by July.

But the walls are totally closing in on Trump.; 6/5/26, 10:29 PM
Peachy said...: NY Democrats just passed a bill to call mothers "gestating parents" and fathers "non-gestating parents."; 6/5/26, 10:43 PM
Kai Akker said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 6/6/26, 3:42 AM
Kai Akker said...: --- this offering

Better for them now than when GOOGL is $100 stock again. The madness of crowds.

Your link took me to a Louis L'Amour book, LOL. Here is the offering info: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/topstocks/alphabet-to-issue-80-billion-of-equity-for-ai-buildout-berkshire-to-buy-10-billion/ar-AA24zTOk; 6/6/26, 3:46 AM
Breezy said...: I saw SRV in the mid eighties. I recall it as one of the most cacophonous concerts I’d ever been to. Hated it.; 6/6/26, 4:40 AM
Kai Akker said...: --- Clapton’s was comparatively wooden. [Iman]

Maybe, I can see how you might feel that. I loved the Dominos band and especially hearing Duane play. Cannot knock it, love to hear it!; 6/6/26, 4:54 AM
john mosby said...: Ref Trump falling asleep on camera in meetings: When you're that manic, constantly doing and saying things, and then you come to a complete stop, sometimes your body interprets it as permission to shut down. Especially when it's a ceremonial 'meeting' where you know everything that's going to be said. And you have a nice comfy chair.

I would bet the farm that 5 minutes after each of those sleep incidents, he was right back to doing ten things at once.

Still, someone he listens to should really say, "boss, when we do these photo-ops, how about we put you at a lectern instead? And script it so you talk more?" CC, JSM; 6/6/26, 5:31 AM
Christopher B said...: Temu Jim Cramer sez what?; 6/6/26, 5:36 AM
rehajm said...: That music says your call is important to us….; 6/6/26, 5:38 AM
rehajm said...: a yt er said senate has the votes to pass the save america thing. I don’t trust it as news or evidence it will pass. Feels like a head fake; 6/6/26, 5:45 AM
rehajm said...: Temu Jom Cramer is higher quality than jim cramer; 6/6/26, 5:56 AM
Humperdink said...: So it appears Chicago Bears are not only moving out of Chicago but leaving the late great state of Illinois. Headed for greener pastures in Indiana. Makes me smile.; 6/6/26, 5:56 AM
rehajm said...: Blue states make it difficult to sign top players as teams have to top off for all the millionaire taxes. It the states keep ratcheting up the rates, eventually Texas Florida and Nevada teams will be the only competitive teams…maybe Nashville slides in there sometimes; 6/6/26, 6:01 AM
rehajm said...: The NE Patriots said it was a done deal they were moving to Hartford CT when they needed leverage for a new stadium. Hartford had a billboard I think one of the unions put up with a big hand with fingers crossed and when the deal to move to Hartford was announced they changed the fingers crossed to a big thumbs up. You can guess what Hartford changed it to after the Pats signed the new Foxboro stadium deal…; 6/6/26, 6:15 AM
Humperdink said...: Several years ago, Tyreek Hill signed with the Miami Dolphins. Why the Dolphins? No state income tax.; 6/6/26, 6:34 AM
Dave Begley said...: Meade!

Artist? Song?; 6/6/26, 6:40 AM
rcommal said...: I saw SRV a handful of times. And I remember exactly where I was when news of his death reached me. My best girlfriend and I were on a trip to the beach in Delaware, and we were in a biker bar, of all things. The spontaneous salute to the man was quite impressive, and I remember being surprised. Probably shouldn't have been. We'd run into a guy (a biker) whose struggles with raising money for treatment for his daughter with cancer had been extensively covered by the newspaper for which I was then working in Cecil County, Md. We were chatting. A couple of his buddies bought bar rounds to toast him. It made quite the impression.

Regards,

Lori (reader_iam); 6/6/26, 6:41 AM
rcommal said...: The Pagans had largely been dismantled by the 1980s in Cecil County following major crackdowns in the '70s, but there were still residuals in the county and could be found in certain bars in the area, especially later at night and after hours. I'm thinking specifically of the Pencader, a border bar which didn't worry too much about carding, if you catch my drift. A fair amount of SRV was played there, too.

Regards,

Lori (reader_iam); 6/6/26, 6:54 AM
rcommal said...: Kai: Yeah, my Tesla stock took a beating yesterday, following a reduction all week following a surprising high. Alas. I was planning to sell some last week to put aside money for a potential SpaceX investment in September or December, when the IPO stuff settled down. Missed a window, again alas. Well, I don't actually try to time the market, but that doesn't mean it isn't a tad galling when I fail to timely execute a plan. Oh, well, been at it for a while, so won't waste any angst.

Regards,

Lori (reader_iam); 6/6/26, 7:01 AM
rcommal said...: Begley: I think it's Boney James? I certainly could be wrong, though.

Regards,

Lori (reader_iam); 6/6/26, 7:21 AM
rcommal said...: I can't recall a name, but I'll bet it's got something to do with weather.; 6/6/26, 7:24 AM
rcommal said...: Smooth jazz, definitely not RSV. Maybe a reference towel, a reference in another thread?

Regards,

Lori (reader_iam; 6/6/26, 7:27 AM
rcommal said...: "reference to a reference" NOT a "reference towel," whatever the heck that is.; 6/6/26, 7:28 AM
rcommal said...: Begley: So, Siri is telling me that the music is "After the Rain."

I guess maybe "reference towel" was my unconscious brain trying to jog my conscious memory. Seriously, I am literally LOLing.

Regards,

Lori (reader_iam); 6/6/26, 7:31 AM
rcommal said...: My mind doesn't work like Althouse's (I enjoyed that post the other day, by the way). But it does seem to have its own peculiar way.; 6/6/26, 7:33 AM
narciso said...: Go with inverse cramer; 6/6/26, 7:50 AM
narciso said...: Thats not smooth jazz; 6/6/26, 8:11 AM
boatbuilder said...: The NE Patriots said it was a done deal they were moving to Hartford CT when they needed leverage for a new stadium. Hartford had a billboard I think one of the unions put up with a big hand with fingers crossed and when the deal to move to Hartford was announced they changed the fingers crossed to a big thumbs up. You can guess what Hartford changed it to after the Pats signed the new Foxboro stadium deal

I was a Pats fan living in Hartford at the time. After the initial interest, it soon became painfully obvious (to me, anyway) that the Pats were just using the Hartford threat to leverage the MA legislature. It worked. In hindsight, probably a good thing for CT.; 6/6/26, 8:21 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Goldman Sachs expects SpaceX’s AI revenue to increase 100-fold by 2030 ~ CNBC

Exclusive: investment bank retained to advise company on IPO says it will be a big success. They’ve been anointed as the lead underwriter; I’d expect no less a statement from them. Why not just make it 1000x ?; 6/6/26, 8:50 AM