Well we have another screed from cloud cuckoo land and it is a dozy.
It seems that the evil blogger lady wants to continue to pick a fight with the Instanerd and his wife. Not satisfied at losing her comments section and most likely all the links thrown her way that put her on the map now she is doubling down with her patented blend of pomposity, condescension, bile and wrongheadness.
At least she acknowledges that she would have been in the middle of shitstorm if she still had comments as the "right wingers" who came to her site from Instapundit would inundate her with push back. Which she could not deal with. She took the adult approach of putting her fingers in her ears and saying she doesn't want to talk about it anymore. She just says that the Instanerd is wrong but he doesn't want to admit that she is right. So there.
Some commenter named X said that she went "full mental Inga." I think he hit it right on the head.
You know Wild Bill Hickok was a pretty arrogant guy. His bleached blond hair and bizarre attire were his trademark along with his arrogance and the surety that he was always right. What finally brought him down was when he turned on his best friend.
When Hickok was facing down gunman Phil Coe, his best friend and deputy Mike Williams ran up behind him and Hickok turned without looking and shot him dead. Williams always backed up Hickok and was his main support. He propped him up when he was sick and told everybody what a great guy Hickok was when most people just didn't see it. But everybody liked Mike so they sort of listened. When Hickok turned and shot down his friend everyone turned their face from him. He lost his job as Marshal and never really had another. He drifted from town to town looking for a game. Finally he ended up in Deadwood. He was so arrogant that he sat with his back to the door instead of the wall. He was shot dead holding the "Dead Man's Hand." He thought he was so great that everybody loved him and that he was always right. But there were many people who were just waiting for a chance to take him out. He made many enemies when he thought that he was the greatest and that everyone loved and admired him.
I think somebody just rode into Deadwood.
115 comments:
For the record, I never leave my house.
Incredible. As I said in the other thread, I hope Insty ignores her.
She's really lost the plot.
Sixty Grit wrote...
"For the record, I never leave my house."
I would like to amend that and add "except for those emergency tequila deliveries to the far north."
Tequila - don't leave home without it.
LOL
I really thought it'd all blow over in a week or two, and that her blog would somehow return to its normal operations, perhaps with a few commenters kicked out.
But the post this morning....it does nothing more than prove to her readers that they were right to believe that she simply cannot tolerate any opinion other than her own.
Throwing the dinner plates at Glenn Reynolds is foolish. All he did was bring eyeballs to her blog. Plus, he is a well-paid lecturer, an author, has the top blog of its kind, and writes monthly columns and articles in several newspapers and magazines.
Althouse inadvertently proves that what Dr. Helen Smith wrote in her book is true, while her intent was to say the exact opposite.
She is not well.
I agree, Michael. It's a very personal attack on Glenn and his wife, and in addition to unkind which Insty certainly hasn't been to her, it is a taunt. Very juvenile.
This is the real Althouse that I have had dealings with in person and on the internet.
It is all blowing up now.
I snark about her lack of sobriety, mainly because I don't like drunks (nothing personal, Troop, I am sure you are a fine guy), but in the picture she posted recently, with the weird noir-ish angle, she really does not look well.
Edutcher has written that perhaps she is not well. I think there may be something to this. Maybe she received some bad news or something.
However, even cursory study of films would teach that camera tilt and odd angles have meaning. Blake can certainly speak more eloquently than I on the subject.
In any case, this is all speculation on my part, and I have no knowledge one way or the other.
I really need to do some work here - I just noticed that the comment feature is turned on in her smegma post - trolling for Titus.
Leaving aside the spat, I am kind of fascinated at Althouse's willingness to make much of the fact that her commentariat is right wing and that it's also misogynistic. While I really do wince at some of the pushback she gets (see, e.g., Nichevo's posts), I am aware enough of the war on men that I understand there has to be some rage built up out there. Which obviously coincides with the success of Dr. Helen's book. Althouse seems to be dismissing it entirely.
The pendulum swings.
I think you are overthinking this sixty.
She is just a vile nasty twat.
She really is Inga. She just hid it better.
But then I always go for the simple explanation because I am a simpleton.
I shouldn't have used the word "fact". I do not believe her commentariat is misogynistic. I do believe it's mostly right wing, which apparently has annoyed her.
Nichevo for men is what Inga is for liberals.
You really don't want him on your side but waddaya gonna do?
And Sixty, I thought that was a terribly unflattering photo too.
One mans ceiling is another mans floor.
It's like calling somebody racist. It has been done so much about so many things that it has lost it's meaning.
The basic facts are that Althouse is in favor of Abortion, Same Sex Marriage, Affirmative Action, Special Rights for Women and is against religion and the traditional lifestyle. Most of her commenters are the exact opposite but were willing to give her the benefit of the doubt when she didn't trumpet her true colors. When she did then she got pushback. When she got personal and nasty she got even more personal and nasty pushback. It is that simple.
Oh, I agree Althouse got nasty and personal herself. She really has nerve acting like it's one-sided.
As I say, I am diagnosing this mess remotely. Never met her, never will.
I'll take your word on it, Troopski.
Now get out there and try to comment - we must see who made the list!
Darcy, It isn't that she is dismissing the pushback from men, it's that she has chosen to ridicule men and women who have thoughtfully commented about it.
Oops, commenting is gone. Blink and you miss it.
They only have one way streets in Madison Darcy.
It's a meltdown I tells ya!
Hahaha! And she drives the wrong way on them. A little inside baseball there.
Yes, she is ridiculing the people who are commenting thoughtfully on this, Michael. There were/are many.
Hahaha! And she drives the wrong way on them. A little inside baseball there.
A chemistry professor friend of mine was enjoying a sabbatical in France several years ago. His wife got used to driving in traffic in France -- it really isn't much different than in the US. One day, they took a car ferry over to Blighty and she drove the car off the ferry into the roadway. Not thinking that the rules had changed, she drove head long into oncoming traffic. Fortunately, it was all at low speed/slow motion and nobody got hurt.
And as bad as she looked, her bestest girlfriend Hillary looks even worse, if such a thing is possible.
I feel dirty now. Must work...
Althouse is being what they used to call obstinate.
Trooper, I've been to that saloon in Deadwood -- or what purports to be the one.
You really should travel West someday if you get the chance. Maybe you have but you just aren't saying.
He made it as far as Jersey, but was turned back by the odd mannerisms and language that they used out there.
Trooper York said...
They only have one way streets in Madison Darcy.
It's not that...it's that you can't make right turns anywhere in Madison. This obliges everyone to drive in circles to get places.
That's a cute story, Raylan.
I want to see more of the west. I've seen some pics of a camping trip a friend took in Wyoming recently. Beautiful doesn't even come close to describing.
Hey I have been out West!
I have been in LA, San Francisco,
Vegas and Hawaii.
I have never been in the Midwest though unless you count Pittsburgh and I was only there for a Steelers game.
I would think it would be pretty funny if I took a road trip to Wisconsin and me, Chickie, Haz and Nick Spinelli were all sitting in some bar when a certain couple came in to split a burger and a small glass of beer.
Now that's entertainment.
I would drive over there for that!
It's a fun thought but I would never trespass on somebody else's turf without an invite.
But you never know. I might get tickets to watch the New York Giants slaughter those poor Packers in the playoffs and end up in Wisconsin.
Stranger things have happened.
There's a special brand of fucked up when your desire for the respect/attention of Inga and her ilk is higher than that for Glenn Reynold's.
~ A Proclamation ~
WHEREAS The Trooper York Blog is a gathering of smart, witty, seasoned and happy individuals; and
WHEREAS said individuals want to travel to, in and through the great state of Wisconsin; and
WHEREAS while in Wisconsin said individuals may spend time and capital in various establishments in various cities in Wisconsin all for the purpose of enjoying each others' companionship and stories, and recovering from such events; and
WHEREAS a tour of the highpoints of Madison will be arranged in order that said individuals can personally observe various establishments, residences, lakes, trails, dogs, lawn groomers, bars, coffee shops, art museums, tea houses and sundry other galleries, dives and such; and
WHEREAS The Green Bay Packer Hall Of Fame and Lambeau Field welcomes the followers of all other excuses for a football team;
THEREFORE It is proclaimed that this group of exceptional individuals is granted irrevocable visas to enter, enjoy and remain in the great state of Wisconsin at such time of their choosing, and for a duration of their choosing.
BY MY HAND This tenth day of July, in the year of our Lord Two Thousand Thirteen.
SIGNED By Michael Haz, on behalf of the people of Wisconsin.
*at least most of the people, knowhatimean?*
The sane people. :)
(Well done!)
I was @ Wild Bill's grave in Deadwood a few weeks ago on the way home from Yellowstone. Calamity Jane is buried right beside him. She still considered Bill her friend.
I know. But they never had a sexual relationship and her main focus was her love of animals. Especially dogs.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Ditto what Haz said. Open invite to all. All shit aside, any football fan has to go to a game @ Lambeau. I have 3 college buddies coming from Jersey in November to see the Packer/Eagle game. One is an Eagle fan[south Jersey]. One is a Giants fan. He had season tix for 35 years until the Giants installed that fucking fee. And the other is a Jets season tix holder. It's quite a melting pot. Trooper, the Giants fan is also a Yanks fan and is RABID!
Where is Atticus Finch when you need him?
Sixty, He's shooting rabid dogs in Madison. Hope he doesn't hit the "dog toucher."
windbag said...
There's a special brand of fucked up when your desire for the respect/attention of Inga and her ilk is higher than that for Glenn Reynold's.
It makes sense if Inga is really a Meadhouse sock puppet.
I recall an instance in these very pages when Allie (Inga) was still still a member. I somehow got into a discussion of local Madison politics after Titus starting dropping names of local Madison people -- some of whom I knew by name. I disappointed Inga with my lack of namedropping ability concerning local Madison politics--it has been almost 30 years since I lived there. But Allie in turn shocked me with her intimate knowledge of local (west side) Madison politics. I think we were both testing each other.
I'm not accusing here -- just suggesting. Let's see how fast this gets back to her.
I'm just making a hypothesis here, open to be shot down.
Does this link at Crack's mean you are opened up to anyone viewing your blog?
A division of the US Department of Justice was deployed to Sanford, Florida in 2012 to provide assistance for anti-George Zimmerman protests, including a rally headlined by Al Sharpton, according to newly released documents.
The Community Relations Service, a division of DOJ, reported expenses related to its deployment in Sanford to help manage protests between March and April 2012, according to documents obtained by the watchdog group Judicial Watch.
Those are the first two sentences in today's Daily Caller story. Am I being naive or has the Rubicon been crossed? What's left of the constitution when Holder's DOJ abandons even the pretext of neutrality and gives documented financial and logistic support to the would-be Zimmerman lynch mob prior to his trial? Since the Republicans won't make a squeak is there an opening here for an ordinary citizen to bring a case for impeachment on Holder?
Since the Republicans won't make a squeak is there an opening here for an ordinary citizen to bring a case for impeachment on Holder?
Needs standing?
Pretense not pretext. Hey, I'm a lousy layman.
I'm not sure what you mean, EBL. Are you saying anyone can read this blog through a link? I thought it would make you sign in first? Since I'm signed in, the link works for me but I haven't tried it not signed in...
chick, I don't know squat about the law. Please translate what "needs standing" means, to a layman.
Chip S. warned me he had a friend (without a Trooper invite) try a link on my blog and she got to TY. So I removed it.
I have not verified it myself, I assumed the same thing you did.
I miss Althouse! I could make scatological comments there and then flee. Here I have to make sense. Too tough.
I just tested it and it's true. If you're not signed in and you click a link you can get to the linked post and all other posts, including the comments!
Holy crap.
I think there is a bug in the system. I knew there was a backdoor since I used it myself a few times when I wanted to check out the blog from an I-pad.
I think that anybody that has a link that was up before I changed to private can get in. I don't know what to do to tighten it up.
I will investigate.
If anybody knows of a fix let me know.
I am not all that worried about people reading the blog. I have nothing to hide really. But I do definitely want to control who can post here because I will not subject my other commenters to people like Inga and Titus. You get a long full chance to comment and prove yourself. When you do...there are consequences.
I was a little taken aback. I thought this was kind of private, but I don't have anything (much!) to hide.
chick, I don't know squat about the law. Please translate what "needs standing" means, to a layman.
Not-a-lawyer either, to file a complaint, you'd need to show real harm, not just potential harm. If riots happen, and real damage occurs, Holder will be inundated.
If anybody knows of a fix let me know.
Let it bleed.
Well kiddo there are a couple of photos we might have to talk about.
Just sayn'
Inga is posting one handed!
Does she think this helps Meadhouse's case?
And here is a song...
Do you think the other one is shoved up her.....errr....let's not go there.
Inga is posting one handed!
At least the beast is confined there. Has she been sighted elsewhere yet?
Inga is one batshit crazy broad.
Actually, I think she's Althouse.
Once again you show how perceptive you are chickie. Once she is not included on the select commenters list she is going to be all over the internet going crazy.
I am afraid for Lem. It will be like that time Celia Cruz blew him in the Copa and then she wouldn't stop calling.
Does she think this helps Meadhouse's case?
Do Meadhouse even care? When did they ever complain about Inga except for her flirting chatter? She certainly is not doing that over there.
Or maybe it was a tranny who was dressed like Celia Cruz.
I forget the story. Lem told it late one night after one too many cervezas.
Inga's biggest claim to fame on Althouse was as self-appointer arbiter of tenor and tone. Sort of a partisan pitbull on loan. Althouse would have had to have invented her if she didn't already exist.
I thought Audie Murphy's mother had her pegged. That was one smart dude.
I'm quite certain Inga is who she says she is. Too many details of her life. Hell, she invited me to her daughters after wedding party in Madison last year. I think she also told others to pop in after the dinner for a cocktail.
Trooper.
It seems that anyone can look at your blog but cannot look at the comment sections.
I signed out of Gmail and was able to access the blog. I signed in as my husband's account and was still able to see the blog. However, with both of those ways I couldn't get into the comment section.
Perhaps this explains how Inga and the others are getting information about what you are posting???
Hey maybe that is what it is. I am not worried about it. I am not doing anything wrong and I am not afraid of anybody seeing what I have to say because anything I say here I would say right to their face.
I am just glad that the comments are protected because I want people to say with they want without editing themselves.
Me....I never edit shit. Just sayn'
I couldn't see anything on this blog until TY gave me an invite a little while ago.
I'm not sure it's as insecure as some of you fear it might be.
Of course, it's the Internet. Nothing's ever really secure, is it?
And by "a little while ago," I literally mean maybe 30 minutes ago.
Welcome Kensington!
You know there is a Kensington section of Brooklyn. Right next to Borough Park. Where there are a lot of Jews. Just like at Trooper York.
We are lousy with hebes. Just sayn'
What too racial?
If ricpic were awake he would say I am meshuggener.
I've lived in Kensington! It's a lovely neighborhood and also the source of my Internet "name."
Really?
Small world.
I once went to really sleazy strip club at the edge of Kennsington and one of my buddies fell in love with a tranny.
Hey ever go to Farrell's?
Ha ha, no I never went to Farrell's but I think it was right down the street from my church.
Wish I'd known about the sleazy strip club, though...
Farrell is one of the last of the old school knucklehead Irish bars in Brooklyn. Mainly working class guys who drink beer in cardboard containers. I haven't been there in years so it is most likely infested with hipster douchebags like everywhere else in Brooklyn. But back in the day it was a good joint.
Oh! LOL
Memories.
I love that pic of me. I still had boobs.
Waddaya mean Darcy?
You still have us guys.
Aren't we boobs?
Hey, I never looked at it that way, but it works for me. I still have boobs! Yay! :P
If Althouse clears out here commenting community and ushers in a more lefty crowd, I wonder what that will do to her Amazon profits?
I'd be very curious to know if lefties would tend to be as generous as her despised right wing readers apparently were.
Even Althouse can't be delusional enough to think that she can compete in the cyber world w/o comments. She must be smoking some serious ganja to think she can do 5% of what Instapundit does. She needs comments for the control, ego boost, and traffic.
I have another computer which is not completely set up for surfing and whatnot. I started it up, went to Crack's site, clicked on his link that goes here, and nothing. I was not allowed to enter this site. Moreover, I could not find a way to change which account I was trying to use to get in here.
That's my experience. YMMV.
This is the link I clicked from Crack's blog.
I am surprised the lefty sites (both in Madison and nationally) have not commented on this. I suspect they don't know what to make of it.
Me too. When and if my other computer gets up to speed I shall continue to investigate.
NSA knows all, in any case.
Frankly I am not sure anyone knows what to make of this, especially Meadhouse.
Oh, the ragman draws circles
Up and down the block
I'd ask him what the matter was
But I know that he don't talk...
But everybody still talks about
How badly they were shocked
But me, I expected it to happen
I knew she'd lost control
When she built a fire on Main Street
And shot it full of holes
Now the rainman gave me two cures
Then he said, "Jump right in"
The one was Texas medicine
The other was just railroad gin
And like a fool I mixed them
And it strangled up my mind
And now, people just get uglier
And I have no sense of time
Now the bricks lay on Grand Street
Where the neon madmen climb
They all fall there so perfectly
It all seems so well timed
And here I sit so patiently
Waiting to find out what price
You have to pay to get out of
Going through all these things twice
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.
Seemed appropriate...
Hey guys. First post here at Troopers. Thanks Trooper. You can read what I've written at EBL. I'm not going to repeat it again, but suffice to say that my tenure at althouse was reduced to nothing more than an empty gesture by her actions and behavior. the more that comes out the more it appears that she's not really who she says she is and her judgment is suspect. If her students knew that she employed these tactics as a teacher of the law, I would steer clear of her too. This is shameful behavior by someone that I held in a higher esteem and I'm now sorry that I've wasted my time at Althouse knowing that she really isn't who she projects herself to be.
Michael Haz said...
Darcy, It isn't that she is dismissing the pushback from men, it's that she has chosen to ridicule men and women who have thoughtfully commented about it.
Michael, it goes beyond that. Her 'losers' screed on DOMA was the icing on the cake that really brought her tactless shrill harpy-ness to the front. Something I would never have expected and I told her as much, but I also saw something deeper going on and I suspected she was up to something and I said that too. I guess it revealed itself in this manner.
What she really showed was that she is a misandrist and the charge of misogyny on her part against her detractors and the commentariat at large was unfounded against those that disagreed with her.
Absolutely perfect, Sixty. Brilliant, in fact.
And welcome, Methadras. I don't post much here myself, but it's nice to see you, and to have a refuge from Madam's tea-table and the frequent tempests thereon. It has, in fact, turned into a genuine Mad Tea Party of late.
How we work that into the Memphis Blues I'll leave to better minds and earlier hours. For my part, I'm generally the March Hare and late for a very important date.
TTBurnett said...
Absolutely perfect, Sixty. Brilliant, in fact.
And welcome, Methadras. I don't post much here myself, but it's nice to see you, and to have a refuge from Madam's tea-table and the frequent tempests thereon. It has, in fact, turned into a genuine Mad Tea Party of late.
How we work that into the Memphis Blues I'll leave to better minds and earlier hours. For my part, I'm generally the March Hare and late for a very important date.
Thanks TT. I was a regular over at Nuthouse before the lunacy act kicked into high gear. These rabble rousers know me.
I don't really have anything to add, other than:
100!!!
Welcome, Methadras!
Dang, Darce, it's early here, but crazy early over there in that non-EDT place!
Hey, y'all woke me up.
Mornin', all. Sorry about the racket.
Good morning, you two!
Off for my morning run. Hope you have a great mornin'. :)
Thanks! I'm waiting for daylight here so I can bicycle my daily 20.
Should I suggest this as an article she can discuss?
My thought on the Instapundit and Althouse dust up--I thought Glenn made the much better and readable argument than did the Prof from Wisconsin--Having been in Academe (sorry) for quite a while, there is nothing more hostile than disagreement between academecians. As Henry the K said: arguments in academe as so vicious because the stakes are so small. Althouse has not done nearly the amount of peer reviewed publishing as has Professor Reynolds and I suspect that gets under her think skin--He's a far better writer and can translate legal issues into readable stuff for non-lawyers--Althouse was way out of her league to go after him.
Professors profess--and if challenged they simply flunk you--Academcians for the most part hate being challenged. They are all for academic freedom until they are challenged personally.
Glad to see my favorite commenters migrate over here. Best to all.
Methadras is here? Batten down the hatches!
"There is nothing more hostile than disagreement between academecians."
Mornin' Folks,
Except in numbers, I don't know that Ann and Glenn are at each other, because - based on the ethical picture they present - I really don't think they care. They think they're "getting away" with something, legally gaming the system, if you ask me. It ain't gonna run well like that.
The most dangerous thing to Ann right now isn't Insty, or even her own propensity to casually lie and contradict herself, but that 2006 article in Reason by Ronald Bailey. There you see the pattern for all that, with the histrionics and mental breakdown included.
Unless Ann puts that in her banner's "ABOUT" header, she can't claim to being honest with anyone about whose views they're getting. It certainly ain't some thoughtful, sophisticated lawyer staring off into the distance, that's for sure.
Insty plays the same game - down in the mud with his nose in the air - but minus the public hair-pulling. He's more careful than Althouse, but that doesn't make him safe, either.
I told 'em to stay away from Romney, man:
That cult shit can rub off on ya,...
Very good observations, Roger J.
Althouse's response to Glenn Reynolds was embarrassing. It wasn't quite wince-worthy, but it was close.
Discovering her in her fourth blogging month, I liked Althouse for her independence of mind, eclectic tastes and lively-seeming personality. Over the years, each of those has been revealed to be a fraud in one way or another.
Add to that her monochromatic and long-predictable writing, and there isn't much left. Agree with him or not, Glenn Reynolds has a depth that Althouse frankly can't conceive of. And, yes, she really stepped into it by contending with such a figure.
This all is the sense of the meeting here and not worthy to rehash, so I hope everyone will forgive me if I just tried to see if my brain cells had any minimal ability to process anything after recent flat-out days. Thank you.
FWIW, I tried Darcy's link in different browsers with different (and no) Gmail identities and none of them could get in.
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