tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post4423623421300701423..comments2024-03-29T08:56:40.289-05:00Comments on Althouse: Justice Thomas drives south, "drinking beer and watching other cars slide off the road and crash into one another."Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger171125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-6523379761221161912007-10-03T21:14:00.000-05:002007-10-03T21:14:00.000-05:00I have never deleted a post.I delete some comments...I have never deleted a post.<BR/><BR/>I delete some comments...Ann Althousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-78840962338448789762007-10-03T14:39:00.000-05:002007-10-03T14:39:00.000-05:00Am I hallucinating?I was here early this morning a...Am I hallucinating?<BR/><BR/>I was here early this morning and there seemed to be another post that<BR/>I wanted to comment on...<BR/><BR/>What happened?Mr. B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02067666077743889680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-23945267343185380052007-10-03T12:43:00.000-05:002007-10-03T12:43:00.000-05:00This is first I've heard that baseball was played ...This is first I've heard that baseball was played in Britain, Ireland, or Switzerland, but it is cool if true. Former law student is definitely right about those other countries, however.<BR/><BR/> By the way, there is no "h" in "Worcester." I hope that was your mistake rather than an error in the book, considering Thomas went to college there for four years and married a local woman.James Kabalahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02930632267110992738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-33028199452496593742007-10-03T07:41:00.000-05:002007-10-03T07:41:00.000-05:00former law student: thanks for the correction. I...former law student: thanks for the correction. I realized this morning I had the timeline bass ackwards.MadisonManhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01212179466758420208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-53541271959467862492007-10-03T03:40:00.000-05:002007-10-03T03:40:00.000-05:00Hi, amba. Are you up late or up early? I'm up earl...Hi, amba. Are you up late or up early? I'm up early. Reading Justice Thomas's book put me to sleep at 9 PM. I'm back up again and ready to finish the thing. <BR/><BR/>Of course, you're right that you can't tell the whole truth. How boring that book would be... and long. But the memoirist is responsible for the selections he makes, and if he's protecting some people -- especially himself -- while slamming a select few, I'm going to be critical. On the first page of the book, he slams his father for leaving him and he wonders how a man can do that to his children. Later, he leaves his own son, and he really doesn't explain why. He wants to protect the wife and child. Okay. But if he's purporting to write a good book, that's a problem. Find a way to finesse it. <BR/><BR/>My biggest problem at this point is that sex is not talked about at all, and sex is going to be the issue with Anita Hill. <BR/><BR/>And whoever said I should reveal the same things about my own life. Maybe I would in a memoir, but I don't see any post here where the failure to say something personal about myself makes something I have chosen to explore hard to understand. I choose not to write about my family, and I am not trying to present a psychological profile of myself for your enlightenment.Ann Althousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-84342573530374406972007-10-03T03:30:00.000-05:002007-10-03T03:30:00.000-05:00titus: "So this is what I just purchased from Amaz...titus: "So this is what I just purchased from Amazon, The Age of Reason by Sartre; East West by Salmon Rushdie; Sexus by Henry Miller; A Room of Ones Own, Virgina Wolf; Snow by Pamuk; Undiscovered Self by Jung and The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe."<BR/><BR/>It's Salman Rusdie. Salmon is a fish. Or a Supreme Court Justice. <BR/><BR/>Good luck with the books. <BR/><BR/>As for Tom Wolfe's politics, <A HREF="http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008076" REL="nofollow">here</A>'s a good article, which includes:<BR/><BR/><I>Mr. Wolfe offers a personal incident as evidence of "what a fashion liberalism is." A reporter for the New York Times called him up to ask why George W. Bush was apparently a great fan of the "Charlotte Simmons" book. "I just assumed it was the dazzling quality of the writing," he says. In the course of the reporting, however, it came out that Mr. Wolfe had voted for the Bush ticket. "The reaction among the people I move among was really interesting. It was as if I had raised my hand and said, 'Oh, by the way, I forgot to tell you, I'm a child molester.'" For the sheer hilarity, he took to wearing an American flag pin, "and it was as if I was holding up a cross to werewolves."<BR/><BR/>George Bush's appeal, for Mr. Wolfe, was owing to his "great decisiveness and willingness to fight." But as to "this business of my having done the unthinkable and voted for George Bush, I would say, now look, I voted for George Bush but so did 62,040,609 other Americans. Now what does that make them? Of course, they want to say--'Fools like you!' . . . But then they catch themselves, 'Wait a minute, I can't go around saying that the majority of the American people are fools, idiots, bumblers, hicks.' So they just kind of dodge that question. And so many of them are so caught up in this kind of metropolitan intellectual atmosphere that they simply don't go across the Hudson River. They literally do not set foot in the United States. We live in New York in one of the two parenthesis states. They're usually called blue states--they're not blue states, the states on the coast. They're parenthesis states--the entire country lies in between."</I>Ann Althousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-5575319423581919032007-10-03T03:11:00.000-05:002007-10-03T03:11:00.000-05:00You cannot tell the whole truth. You can't. The ...You cannot tell the whole truth. You can't. The whole truth can't be told.<BR/><BR/>I write this as someone thinking I'll have to write a memoir some time. And there are things I will just not be able to tell. I know exactly what they are. People wouldn't want to hear them, either. You can't ever tell the whole truth.ambahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12042450225428891273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-62997685510904353532007-10-03T01:17:00.000-05:002007-10-03T01:17:00.000-05:00Compared to the three day nap that is cricket, bas...Compared to the three day nap that is cricket, baseball is rollerball. And thirty-nine countries play baseball in Europe alone (Regensburg is looking to win its first-ever Bundesliga championship, for example). Baseball is most popular in the US, Canada, Australia, Mexico, Japan, England, Scotland, Switzerland, Netherlands, Venezuela, Austria, Taiwan, Italy, South Korea, Cuba, Ireland, Dominican Republic, Singapore, Vietnam, Belgium, Colombia, Finland, Nicaragua, and Panama.former law studenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15196697206046544350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-56007208959122215462007-10-03T00:47:00.000-05:002007-10-03T00:47:00.000-05:00Grain alcohol only after this thread.Grain alcohol only after this thread.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-64422953762852090982007-10-03T00:46:00.000-05:002007-10-03T00:46:00.000-05:00I don't mean to scold or correct. Just saying whe...I don't mean to scold or correct. Just saying where I'm coming from. By the way, you don't happen to have any rum, do you?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-51789099217902262852007-10-03T00:43:00.000-05:002007-10-03T00:43:00.000-05:00That is probably 100 percent true. I feel correcte...That is probably 100 percent true. I feel corrected.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-20868038918249559612007-10-03T00:39:00.000-05:002007-10-03T00:39:00.000-05:00Scroll up to about 11:30 and you'll see what I tho...Scroll up to about 11:30 and you'll see what I thought after reading this mess. It's been an ugly thread, but her contribution lowered the quality. The casual observer shouldn't overestimate his importance to the overall scheme of things.<BR/><BR/>If she were a frequent contributor, or even a sporadic one, that would be one thing. I bounce around blogs and read the comment sections, but generally refrain from jumping into the conversation, since I'm just a visitor. She'll likely not read what I posted, since I'm sure she's moved on to find another offense at the next blog.<BR/><BR/>To take such a sanctimonious and critical stance is quite common on anonymous comment sections at blogs. I just thought I'd point out the hypocricy of her comments, that's all. I'm not trying to pick a fight, just having a bit of fun pushing the buttons of someone who's advertising their location.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-35407525217372746242007-10-03T00:30:00.000-05:002007-10-03T00:30:00.000-05:00Listen, man. I don't know loser ggrrrrlll from the...Listen, man. I don't know loser ggrrrrlll from the next person and for all I know she is a Lucky clone. But what would you think if you walked into this mess?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-4224239433717718702007-10-03T00:25:00.000-05:002007-10-03T00:25:00.000-05:00losergrrl has improved the readers' experience by....losergrrl has improved the readers' experience by...??? ad hominem attacks, crypted sexual references, anti-American sports quips, and death wishes all around. Gosh, I'm sure the next few visitors will find that the conversation has taken a turn for the better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-83322849769363545142007-10-03T00:24:00.000-05:002007-10-03T00:24:00.000-05:00Loser -- Ignoring the vitriol, you actually sound ...Loser -- Ignoring the vitriol, you actually sound like you could be a worthwhile contributor here.<BR/><BR/>The fact is that there are some brilliant posters here (some, sadly, have abandoned us) and they often seem to get lost in the fray thanks to a few shallow, very loud, rude people.<BR/><BR/>As for me, I sometimes get annoyed and I start protesting. <BR/><BR/>I think the rule should be: get civil or be deleted. But that's just me. That goes for everyone, obviously, and so 80 percent of my posts today would be deleted but I have been being responsive, and I think the people I am trying to reach understand that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-23701596089705867292007-10-03T00:16:00.000-05:002007-10-03T00:16:00.000-05:00If you must know, my hobbies are gardening, opera,...If you must know, my hobbies are gardening, opera, reading, quilting, and handcuffs.<BR/><BR/>My infrequent visits to this blog should be called, "A Series of Unfortunate Events." The last two times I was here, a similar brawl was underway. I came this time, because I was interested in reading Judge Thomas's book, and this place turned up in a Google search.<BR/><BR/>I came. I saw. I gagged.<BR/><BR/>I agree with Mr. Stodder above, and plan to visit even less frequently.<BR/><BR/>In the meantime, you all should take a deep breath, and count to 1000, slowly.Janehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03195000819125823279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-80221834458522296282007-10-02T23:48:00.000-05:002007-10-02T23:48:00.000-05:00losergrrllllll -- Superb analysis. What are your h...losergrrllllll -- Superb analysis. What are your hobbies?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-75038083819350651122007-10-02T23:45:00.000-05:002007-10-02T23:45:00.000-05:00losergrrl said..."What crap this all is. Don't you...losergrrl said..."What crap this all is. Don't you people have anything better to do?"<BR/><BR/>And you're here because...?<BR/><BR/>*Hence the moniker: loser.Luckyoldsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11489310035114843752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-13556691675834457362007-10-02T23:44:00.000-05:002007-10-02T23:44:00.000-05:00Or perhaps take up the hobby of lecturing my bette...Or perhaps take up the hobby of lecturing my betters on what they should spend their time doing.jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01892213227811281098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-78358480253496115362007-10-02T23:41:00.001-05:002007-10-02T23:41:00.001-05:00What crap this all is.Don't you people have anythi...What crap this all is.<BR/><BR/>Don't you people have anything better to do?<BR/><BR/>I recommend a hobby, such as stamp collecting, or perhaps learning to play the recorder. A chess match should keep your mind away from this. A good game of whist would do the same.<BR/><BR/>For the sports-minded, why don't you take up cricket? It's an interesting game, rather more subtle than baseball, with the advantage that it's played in many more countries.<BR/><BR/>Another passtime would be to read the damned book you are talking about.<BR/><BR/>Of course, for the ultimate hobby, you could all just practice not breathing. Think of the carbon savings. Also, if all the Althouse commentors were to disappear from the earth at once, it would raise the collective I.Q. of the planet.Janehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03195000819125823279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-54065253059688208142007-10-02T23:41:00.000-05:002007-10-02T23:41:00.000-05:00I think it's fair to call Tom Wolfe a cultural con...I think it's fair to call Tom Wolfe a cultural conservative. He doesn't bother with politics much, except inasmuch as it illuminates cultural trends that fascinate him much more. <BR/><BR/>But there's no ambiguity about where he stands on much of modern art, architecture, sexual mores, amoral business practices, celebrity narcissism and so on...he sees the world as having taken a distinct turn for the worse sometime in the last 100 years. I think the world of 1890 would've been a happy place for Tom Wolfe. Or maybe 1920. <BR/><BR/>Titus22, your request for a civil discussion is much appreciated. The name-calling around here is more than depressing, and it's driving out the good commenters across the political spectrum. LOS has somehow positioned himself as the spokesman for the left on these comment threads and, as I'm sure you'll agree, he falls short of coherence most of the time. <BR/><BR/>What he and a few others don't get is that many of the commenters here are genuine independents. He is so quick to label people. Everything is black and white, and he's in a hurry to put everyone he encounters into one category or the other, rather than engage the ideas being expressed. It's incredibly boring and makes me want to stay away from this otherwise superb blog for days at a time. If the next time I come back I see you being thoughtful in your disagreements, and LOS, dtl, simers et.al. marginalized as they should be, it will be a welcome change.John Stodderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14185881995621265497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-25632204254625100272007-10-02T23:37:00.001-05:002007-10-02T23:37:00.001-05:00Kirk,I'm glad you find Trooper entertaining.Other ...Kirk,<BR/>I'm glad you find Trooper entertaining.<BR/><BR/>Other than that, why would I care about anything you have to say about me?Luckyoldsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11489310035114843752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-18074277622040458232007-10-02T23:37:00.000-05:002007-10-02T23:37:00.000-05:00Wow, what a brutal thread. I hope Anita Hill isn'...Wow, what a brutal thread. I hope Anita Hill isn't listening in or a bunch of you might be called on the carpet for your language.<BR/><BR/>Trooper's jokes had me laid out on the floor laughing.<BR/><BR/>Somebody called Thomas narcissistic. For cryin' out loud, this is an autobiography; who should the main topic be?<BR/><BR/>I don't get the digs against our hostess. This is a blog, not a tell-all book. To demand that her personal life's details are a prerequesite for questioning Thomas' editorial choices is bizarre, at least.<BR/><BR/>How many have read an autobiography and disliked the author more than before you read the book? G. Gordon Liddy's left a very negative impression of the man, in my view.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-86417625280049285972007-10-02T23:25:00.000-05:002007-10-02T23:25:00.000-05:00Titus,Wolfe's nonfiction works are among my favori...Titus,<BR/>Wolfe's nonfiction works are among my favorite books. He is an astute observer of human behavior. He cannot be pigeonholed into right or left, I think. He even did a book of cartoons during the 1970s, a rare one, but worth his wise commentary.KCFleminghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00124201866124646626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-28035292291703714012007-10-02T23:24:00.000-05:002007-10-02T23:24:00.000-05:00Titus- Have you read any Hunter Thompson? He was ...Titus- Have you read any Hunter Thompson? He was a acquaintance of Kesey's, and introduced him to the Hells Angels in the 60's. <BR/>PJ ORoark is Libertarian or a South Park Republican.<BR/><BR/>Clarence Thomas is a interesting man. From where his life started to where he ended up makes for a fascinating story. I would also like to meet him. Anyone who thinks he doesn't have the mental horsepower to sit on the SC just isn't paying attention. Or letting their racist or idealogical blinders block the obvious.jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01892213227811281098noreply@blogger.com