So have fun and play nice and no fighting.
Michaleen Flynn: No patty-fingers, if you please. The proprieties at all times. Hold on to your hats
Friday, August 30, 2013
I don't know if I will get to post much during the vacation!
So have fun and play nice and no fighting.
No fighting? Maaannnn......
ReplyDeleteAnd ignore the internet. Eat, drink and be merry.
ReplyDeleteHave fun and looking forward to your trip pictures.
ReplyDeleteHave a great trip.
ReplyDelete*Sigh*. Gotta find our fun where we can for the next week.
ReplyDeleteI laid out some edutcher bait last night at EBL's blog, and woke to find he'd already taken it.
I suppose I shouldn't discount the possibility that he's gone meta, which would be very cool.
Bon Voyeurage, Troop!
ReplyDeleteSafe travels, Troop and LeeLee.
ReplyDeleteYou left the bar stocked, right? Right?
Good.
Hey gang, here's something for the near-term flashback conversation: Women are selling their positive pregnancy test strips on Craigslist.
Because men are never entrapped, right? Even exercising splooge control sometimes isn't enough.
Haz, You are a BLASPHEMER!
ReplyDeleteI don't get it. One hour you'da been in Jones Beach. Clean air, the ocean, an olympic pool, a fantastic hamper of food you coulda picked up in the neighborhood sulamerias (sp?) and that night sleeping in your own bed or if you wanted to make a long weekend of it a top tier bed & breakfast out on the island. And the cost? A tenth as much. It woulda been the SANE thing to do. I rest my case.
ReplyDeleteAs God is my witness, Althouse now has a post headlined "Nicely Played, Mr. President."
ReplyDeleteUnbelievable. As much of a Kool-Aid drinker as possible. Idiot.
All the while Imagining herself saying it in Breathy Marilyn Voice, shimmying while she stands at her desk, typing languorously.
ReplyDeleteShe's still hoping he'll be the President she voted for in order to vindicate her support. She's carried so much water for him it borders on hydrocephallus.
ReplyDeleteYou left the bar stocked, right? Right?
ReplyDeleteHe left a stack of boxed wine...bastard!
OK, I just read the TOP post in question.
ReplyDeleteEither it's uncharacteristic self-parody, or she's lost her fucking mind.
One of the--perhaps the greatest--weakness of self-styled intellectuals is the high value they place on cleverness over wisdom.
AA is neither clever nor wise, and will hate you a million times if you say o/w.
The Hammer's take on Obama's gambit is "amateur hour". The even simpler, blindingly obvious take is, of course, "leading" from behind.
Ann Althouse said...
ReplyDeleteI never hold signs.
I don't think I have ever held a protest sign of any sort.
I think I've only once participated in a protest, but it was only walking and chanting. And it was more than 40 years ago, part of a student strike, demanding that the University of Michigan adopt affirmative action.
8/31/13, 5:46 PM
I've wondered how she got her deep, deep sense of white guilt. 40 years ago, in 1972, there was plenty to protest. I wonder if she's atoning for something or someone in her family.
I don't think it's deep at all.
ReplyDeleteShe's a mediocrity who's always gone along w/ "mainstream" liberal academic opinion. Somewhere along the way she got the idea that she was smart, and has spent the rest of her life building barriers against evidence to the contrary.
She's a trite cliché and a simple bore.
I disagree Chip. I think it's one of her defining characteristics. Also, by "deep" I don't mean in a philosophic sense--I mean in a way that's so deeply buried in her that she has knee-jerk reactions to situations today and paradoxically cannot think deeply about them.
ReplyDeleteCase in point: she has long blogged an aversion to lynching symbolism--even so far as to forbid one of her sons from making a macabre Halloween decoration--because it suggested lynching. Of course, she was OK with Palin's "lynching."
LOL, Titus is right about me--I can't let go of Althouse's hypocrisy in that regard.
It's fine to disagree, chick, esp. on unimportant subjects like Ann Althouse.
ReplyDeleteI say her self-identification as some sort of fighter for racial justice against the white establishment is just part of the Bob-Dylan-loving hippie-chick persona she put on in college (along w/ everyone else in Ann Arbor) and has never been able to put away w/ the love beads and lava lamp.
As you wish, Chip.
ReplyDeleteThis may sound harsh, but I don't mean it that way.
ReplyDeleteI don't wish one way or the other in her case. I simply don't care enough to think about her deeply.
In other news, the Yankees are resorting to Groupon to fill seats.
ReplyDeleteChip, I've been following TY for a long time. The antics and armchair analysis of Althouse psychology is a long standing topic. You can unilaterally say that it's uninteresting or even unhealthy, but it won't make it go away. Many of us "met" over there.
ReplyDeleteOK, she's fascinating.
ReplyDeleteAs you wish.
Hey, Troopski said no fighting, especially over wine-soaked bints.
ReplyDeleteBros before hoes, amirite?
Right chew are. So are both bros.
ReplyDeleteI thought fascinating was a strange word for ChipS to use, as it lent a sarcastic tone to his response. Knowing how on-the- spot he can be, I looked it up and was seriously surprised to learn its origin and see it tracing back to the Italian pics El Pollo had posted earlier.
Fascinating -arousing great interest
-possessing the power to charm or allure; captivating.
From the Latin fascinre, fascint-, to cast a spell on, from fascinum, an evil spell, a phallic-shaped amulet.
In ancient Roman religion and magic, the fascinus or fascinum was the embodiment of the divine phallus. The word can refer to the deity himself (Fascinus), to phallus effigies and amulets, and to the spells used to invoke his divine protection.] Pliny calls it a medicus invidiae, a "doctor" or remedy for envy (invidia, a "looking upon") or the evil eye.
Once again, ChipS T's it up. And El Pollo socks it down the fairway when he says, "is a long standing topic. You can unilaterally say that it's uninteresting or even unhealthy, but it won't make it go away."
Long standing indeed. More than four hours. Ancient history
And for peacemakers and Opera lovers, this fascinating tidbit from the wiki: Catullus uses the verb at the end of Carmen 7, a hendecasyllabic poem addressing his lover Lesbia; he expresses his infinite desire for kisses that cannot be counted by voyeurs nor "fascinated" (put under a spell) by a malicious tongue; such bliss, as also in Carmen 5, potentially attracts invidia.
On the homefront, we're closing the pool today. Next week's nightly temps are supposed go to as low as 48 degrees. And what did I do after my final swim? I sat mesmerized watching vidoe after video of landslides Yup, I followed the link of one of those less than significant commenters over there for some fascinating sights. Doing so suited my mood.
You rock, MamaM - blessed are the cheesemakers. Oh, right, you're not in Wisconsin.
ReplyDeleteWhich makes you doubly blessed.
Thanks Sixty! Sometimes it takes a colony if not a village of individuated curds to make cottage cheese!
ReplyDeleteWe have more culture than yogurt!
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking it would be gallant of us to take Troopski out to Joe and Mary's Italian-American Restaurant in Bushwick as a nice welcome home gesture. I'll bring the cigar.
ReplyDeleteAnyone hungry? I'll call Marco Polo and have them deliver dinner, charged to Trooper's account.
ReplyDeleteI'll bring the cigar.
ReplyDeleteThat's what she said.
Trooper's soggy looking Bananas Foster pales in comparison to The Itchy Trigger Finger!
ReplyDeleteHaz, Nobody would let that reprobate run a tab.
ReplyDeleteYou're right. Every place I called had the same answer: "Aayyyy...I gotcher rice balls right here."
ReplyDeleteMamaM for Sec. of State!
ReplyDeleteI feel a great disturbance in the Force.....
ReplyDeleteTroop--and the fair Ms Troop--you guys have a great vacation. enjoy all of it. you will have plenty of stuff to blog about when you get back.
ReplyDeleteBut I gotta tell you troop--you look awfully much like the Gene Hackman character in enemy of the state when he shows up at the end of the flick. Get some sun on the legs.
This place is deader than Bissage.
ReplyDeleteWas Troop really Bissage in disguise?
ReplyDeleteOr was bissage really Troop in disguise?
ReplyDeleteIf you ever find the sock puppet, look for prints. Or Prince.
ReplyDeleteWho knows, Troopski might be Prince, too. You just never know.
He can't be Prince. Althouse loves Prince.
ReplyDeleteYeah, plus Troopski is too dark complected to be Prince.
ReplyDeleteWhat about Prince of Wales?
ReplyDeleteOr Prince Fielder.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't he play for what the french call "DAY-trwa'?
ReplyDeleteMiss Darcy's team done kidnap him from the Milwaukee Brewers. The 19 games out of first place Milwaukee Brewers.
ReplyDeleteI have to stop doing the occasional fly-by glance at topics posted at TOP. It does nothing but anger me. Today's longish topic on abortion and men controlling their junk is just a re-do of the shit she posted in early July.
ReplyDeleteVile, smarmy shit. With the injected "you need to think harder about what I said" condescension.
I need to clear my head. Saddling up for a ride for a few days. Need to spend time with my two-wheel peeps, and with the road.
Ran into a buddy yesterday buying new tires for his scoot. Said he had two weeks free, so he was going to ride to all four corners of America. He'll be in Seattle tomorrow morning, then turn south toward San Diego. I'm not going that far this month, but I am going.
Gone.
Have fun out there Haz. Althouse produces nothing but garbage, always has, always will. Best to avoid that landfill she calls a blog.
ReplyDeleteActually, Michael, that' s "You need to laugh harder at what I said."
ReplyDeleteTroop probably needs to see these when he gets back.
ReplyDeleteAw jeez, E. P., that is hideous. How about you give us a warning that we are increasing traffic to the bint's place? How about an NSFW tag. Better yet a spoiler tag - some of us have not had breakfast and that shit will spoil one's appetite.
ReplyDeleteWhat a smug prick.
In the pictures, I mean. Got the kind of face that says "Punch me!"
No wonder they get along.
LOL
ReplyDeleteThey both kinda like themselves a little.
Those looked like downloads from a sex offender registry.
ReplyDeleteChip: Lots of guys had porn 'staches back then -- I know I did. BTW, don't you?
ReplyDeleteThey both kinda like themselves a little.
ReplyDeleteI suppose they can each imagine having taken those early photos of each other, having negated the actual photographers.
I need to clear my head. Saddling up for a ride for a few days. Need to spend time with my two-wheel peeps, and with the road.
ReplyDeleteBe careful out there, Michael. I know you're a good rider, but the road is only as safe as the worst drunk out there.
And I'll bet they negate a lot, El Pollo. (I laughed out loud at my desk - thank you.)
ReplyDeleteSo, we should fight or something.
ReplyDeleteBut, Darcy, if they don't like themselves, who will?
ReplyDeleteFor Trooper's sake I hope he doesn't have access to sports news right now.
ReplyDeleteYanks are looking positively titanic.
There are no icebergs in the Bahamas.
ReplyDeleteBut he may be force fed iceberg lettuce.
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