Althouse is encouraging us to travel on our own... I'm not doing her words justice. I just got up and I haven't brushed my teeth yet.
"As Henry said in his email to me, sharing that first link, above, it was perfectly easy to set up a Blogger blog. It might take one minute, and then you're off. Don't sit there in that old broken-down bus wondering when it will start up again. Climb out, stick out your thumb, and Google will whiz by presently and give you a ride."
Please go and read it and maybe you will say for yourself, in other words, something similar. Here or wherever your final destination might be. Like they say on the plane after it lands. Final destination sounds ominous but sometimes there is no subtle way of saying the obvious. I've said my piece on the comments here (not as eloquently as I could have perhaps) but I harbor no rancor. If I ever do, and I do because I'm human, it doesn't last more than a few days. But, in the end, w/o much fanfare.... I need to go to work soon and I need to finish this.
The Doors - The End
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1 – 200 of 247 Newer› Newest»I read blogs for different reasons; I kind of miss the Althouse comments, but I've got no problem wandering on. Who knows? Maybe I'll get out of my apartment more, see the world, get sun burned and die of skin cancer?
Or you know, good things could happen to. World of possibilities.
Sounds to me like she's given up on the Amazon portal thing.
For now, anyway.
Whatever.
She's got a bunch of other ways to keep score, apparently.
Back in the days when both Althouse and Meade commented on Trooper York (yes there was a time), I proposed that Meade drive a bus west to pick up me up and other commenters along on a journey to find bissage. They both seemed to like the idea at the time. There was such unity of purpose. Alas, those times are long gone it seems.
The bus ran out of gas.
And I woke up this morning with a better URL in my head. Can't change it now, I guess.
You are either on the bus or off the bus.
Or, in Ann's case, off her meds.
The line, "Henry is a reader of this blog who has commented in the comments section here, back when my blog had comments", says it all.
Sounds like she doesn't anticipate turning them back on.
Ah well, coming here, and a few other places, kept me from going cold turkey.
Lem, The unexpunged, original version of the "The End" was released on the 40th anniversary CD. About 9 minutes into the song Morrison starts chanting "fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck me baby." It's really quite disturbing. In retrospect, I'm glad Paul Rothschild deleted it. It's like the artist defaced his own work.
FWIW, she always blew hot and cold (no pun) on the Amazon thing anyway.
I'm checking Althouse to see if comments are back yet. Apparently not.
Women are good at creating places but personality disorders eventually take over.
They have the highest linear growth rate, even if they start out small, and then kaboom.
I read the comments and doing what anybody did, skipping the trolls. Who knew anybody cared about them.
WTF? I watch drunken street performers. I sit and talk to them for a spell, toss em some change. I don't want to be one. Well actually I do, but a blogger? Ain't nobody got time for dat.
Freeman Hunt was asking about you yesterday, rh. Glad to see you again.
Universe Bus-Driver Robot says:
From One End of the Universe to Next, and Back Again: That is My Route, with Plentiful Stops. I Can Drop You Off Wherever you Like, As Long as it Is on the Route, and the Route Is Everywhere.
The trolls were the spice that made that unpalatable stew delicious. The problem was the that there was too much rancid meat and not enough root vegetables.
Lem, you could have made some money with a portal. I've been buying candy cigarettes like an 8 year old with a job.
Alas, she loves you not, because you were always wrong.
Lalalalala.
Is that you, Inga?
@pollo, lol.
A beat up vw van.
A lot of people disagree, but I always liked Morrison's vocals. He went free form a lot, but you could always understand the words. I loved the sound of it, and he had a way of making you believe there was more in there if you just listened hard enough. He was probably a pain in the ass to work and party with though. I had plenty of friends like him and was one myself at times. When I was a young man, the girls thought I looked like him, which worked out well for me. If I got really drunk and obnoxious they just thought that was more authentic, which I guess it was. I have always stayed clear of bathtubs though. Dangerous things.
Dont look back something might be... Satchel Paige line i belive.
I have always stayed clear of bathtubs though. Dangerous things.
Urban legend has it that he was carried there.
The Amazon thing was just exploitation:
Stock up on lightbulbs everybody!
I can see through this shit like glass,...
It is inga.
Route 666.
@Lem: No, the bus was American made. And instead of "Further" it was named "Forward" (the Wisconsin state motto).
"Exploitation" is when other people make money. I think that's a good thing. I stopped using the Althouse portal, since I'm not getting anything for it now. I don't even read the posts and pushed it way down my home page. Without the commenters there it's just not the place it was, and doesn't entice me. Most other blogs I read, but never comment. Althouse was different, but that might have been my own mental creation. It's like if your friends all got kicked out of the local bar - why would you go there? Besides I like a bar with a few obnoxious drunks now and then. That's entertainment.
Why doesn't she just come out as Inga or "Sandra"?
Rh! what pollo said.
Rh is one of those guests my parents would give up their bedroom for and take our bedroom for themselves.I didnt appreciate it until I had my own place and then I understood.
I got to step back to work. thanks for being here everybody.
Or just come back as mitochondri-allie with her 3 kids and live hubbo?
Well, there goes the neighborhood.
Lem, you might want to check with Troop as the best way to deal with this infestation.
Dead Jim Morrison Robot says:
If You Only Knew the Half of It, Man. Now That I'm In Heaven I Can Laugh About It -- I Think I've Mentioned Before that Heaven's Pretty Groovy -- But All the Weird Scenes Weren't Just in the Gold Mine.
Althouse did some work and created a place.
As Eudora Welty said somethere, "Now talk."
Commenting is a genre of its own. It isn't blogging.
I agree. I've blogged before. I prefer to comment.
rh - my mother knew Eudora Welty, Eudora Welty was a friend of hers, and Althouse is no Eudora Welty.
Yeah, I know you didn't imply that she was, just riffin' on the old debate line there.
Speaking of the end, I don't know if anyone has heard yet, but IT"S FRIDAY!!!
It's not really exploitation if, well, it cost you nothing extra. If anything, it is anti-exploitation as it is taking money from Amazon (or some other corporation) and giving it to someone you like.
Working in the coal mines, goin' down down down...
My own position, being economics-oriented, is that if it costs Amazon then it costs everybody. The mutual benefit between you and Amazon has a third party taking a piece out of it.
It costs Amazon if the portal isn't what produces the sale, that is, if you would have done it anyway with Amazon.
So at least a plea directing you to the portal for your Amazon purchases, as portal havers are wont to do, is uneconomic.
High ho high ho, off to work we go....
Books that Althouse would get something out of, now that she's freed of comments
Stanley Cavell, Senses of Walden, more depth than you knew Thoreau had.
Wm. Empson, Structure of Complex Words, virtuoso readings of words and their covert doctrines and propaganda by an English Literature guy. A little technical-looking in places but it's a sort of scientific satire, or is willing to be. He's looking for a notation, hoping it will help formalize some intuitions.
Empson somewhere writes that there are therefore five cases, one of which does not occur, and cites an example
Where Bentley late tempestuous wont to sport
In troubled waters, but now sleeps in port
of the aberrant type.
Matthew SablanJuly 12, 2013 at 8:04 AM
It's not really exploitation if, well, it cost you nothing extra. If anything, it is anti-exploitation as it is taking money from Amazon (or some other corporation) and giving it to someone you like.
But it Did cost us - in several ways:
1) Anyone could see it took away from the blog.
2) Giving someone money for misinformation is a bad trade. And giving someone money for misinformation and to "laugh in your scrunched up faces" is a REALLY bad trade.
3) While I was there, Ann led crusades for Obama and Romney - I don't consider either one doing me any favors.
4) Giving someone money to come down on the wrong ethical side, repeatedly? Come ON.
I'll stop - many of you will go along with anything. I'm glad the facade is down. All those "I love you guys" can't hide the truth, as Ronald Bailey made clear:
Ann Althouse is, was, and probably always will be a nut job - but now with Meade to help maintain the delusion of normalcy to the uninitiated.
That's who's important to them now,...
Every woman is a nutjob. That doesn't make them bad people.
Guys, if nobody has noticed recently, cope pretty well. That's their place in the dynamics.
Instawife has a whole book about it.
High ho indeed, but enough about Inga.
Here is how it works:
A blogger creates a place where people are drawn. That's not easy, as many people have discovered. Like all successful endeavors, it takes talent, work, and luck. The people there appreciate the place, and out of that appreciation use the portal. Once there, they commit commerce with Amazon. Amazon benefits, and pays the blogger for that. This extra business at Amazon makes Amazon succeed which employs people, pays taxes and improves what Amazon can offer it's customers. The blogger is paid and thus encouraged to work on and continue the place they made.
Everyone wins, but it only happens because the blogger successfully made a place people liked enough to visit and use the portal, which does require a big helping of luck, which any smart and successful person will not underestimate. Like I said, very hard to do, but apparently much easier to undo.
Inga is not a sockpuppet. No one else has the penchant for run-on sentences that she does.
I agree bagoh. I stopped using the portal for the same reason. She's selling a different product now and it doesn't really interest me. Oh, I still visit her a few times a day out of habit but I find myself disappointed each time. In her case, the comments made the blog. She's obviously smart and is good with wordplay but I find her writing style somewhat tedious when it stands alone. At least she had the good sense to disable comments completely. The back and forth banter between her and Meade when only they were allowed to comment was downright painful.
I know this works on a microeconomic level, because it's exactly that I experienced personally. I enjoyed the Althouse blog experience, and wanted to show my appreciation by using the portal. I would have even if there was a small surcharge for doing so. I was after all trying to show my appreciation, not just buy something. Once at Amazon, their business setup and policies enticed me to buy stuff I had no intention of buying before I went through that portal. Afterward I was impressed with Amazon, and the cycle repeated. It's classic, it's genius, and it's very effective.
There was a hi-fi record in the 50s called Speed the Parting Guest, full of hi-fi demo sounds.
And that's not even including the benefit to and from all the businesses selling through Amazon, like mine for example.
Feminism would be a better sell as nutjobism.
Equality for nutjobs.
Then bra burning would make sense.
Bras look uncomfortable. If I had to wear them, I'd want to burn them too.
If you get the right size bras are very comfortable.
Althouse just gave you the privilege of showing you who she really is after all these years.
Althouse is Inga. With pretty much the same world view and the same personality. Everything that went before was mainly pretense. She loved having conservative fanboys fawning over her and praising her but at bottom she is a dyed in the wool ultra liberal feminazi who lost her gig because of her uncontrollable jealousy of the Intstawife's success.
Lem has a nice blog here. I hope everyone will still comment here in a month from now.
I know I will.
thanks for saying that... i dont believe it but... lol.
Buying through the Althouse portal is giving to charity.
There's nothing inherently wrong with that but that's what it is.
I prefer to give charity to those less fortunate.
Why did she wait so long before installing the portal, anyway?
My guess is her initial discomfort was eventually overcome by her ever-increasing need to keep score.
William Shatner said that an actor will fail unless he is "focused, narcissistic and competitive."
Althouse knows that as well as anybody.
Which is fine by me, I might add.
Most of the value of Ann's site were the commenters. I read almost all the comments every day (Am I really admitting to that?). Although I commented only a dozen or so times, I read her site from the very early days.
I continue to check Ann's site once or twice a day now, but there is nothing compelling there; I'm done looking at in in 5 minutes (vs hours when there were comments). In the past, the comments sometimes got ugly and unreadable, but most of the time they made up the real value of Ann's site.
On the other hand, now I have the gift of an extra hour or two of productive time every day, so I've got that going for me.
Well, I did until I found Lem's blog... :-)
It's not charity, because the blogger has to do something you like to get your business. Even charity isn't usually charity. You give because you like what the organization does and it makes you feel good. You are getting something back.
The portal is more like an advertisement tatooed on a stripper's ass. You were gonna look anyway, but you aren't looking at everyone's ass. OK, maybe that analogy doesn't work for everyone.
Let's take this thread into the 100s today. I'm going flying today, but I'll be back later (I hope), but you kids keep it going.
There's no causal nexus. Althouse will do what she wants to do irrespective of whether you divert that percentage to her or to some other blogger with a portal and there are many. She's well aware of that, of course, which is why she says, in so many words, "Show me you love me and it costs you nothing."
She's maintained several themes consistently over the years and number one has to be: "Don't you dare try to tell me what to do."
My point is, a begger on the street is going to try to survive whether you give him money or not. You give him money because his life has intrinsic worth, you believe, so you want it to continue.
Giving him money is called charity.
There are lots of things we can do with our money to make us feel good.
Interesting sub-thread. The Amazon Portal was the least fascinating thing on all of Althouse to me. I am an Amazon ignoramus, of course...if there is a way to get an order wrong there, I will find it. I have those issues no where else on the Internet. Therefore I just paid a reasonable amount directly to the blog via PayPal periodically. I do best with the simple and straightforward, never mind what that might imply.
Anyway, Lem's been a class act, and if I am around much I would be happy to contribute by PayPal donation or other direct and simple means as uncomplicated as PayPal. Even by check if necessary...just don't like credit cards except when physically necessary. From who I see here it is likely I'll read and maybe comment. I meant what I said in my final remark posted by Ann at the end. A worthwhile forum is worth support for the convenience it provides because of the diversity of opinions provided and organized by others.
Meade, shouldn't you be plowing the lower forty? That is what that cunt you are "married" to calls it, right?
Comments like that are why I'm glad my blog drifted to just being a dumping ground for bad fiction. I don't think I'd want to deal with posts like that.
"It's not charity, because the blogger has to do something you like to get your business.
No. You are not giving business. There is no transaction. No consideration. No quid pro quo. Althouse does not get from you a contract of any stripe.
You are giving a contribution; a percentage of a sum that could go to some other place.
Again, I see nothing wrong with sending Althouse your love. But it's still charity, going to a tenured law professor who has a nifty hobby and some ambitions which may or may not be pretentious, depending on one's inclinations.
C'mon Sixty. You can do better than that. This is Lem's blog. He has to step over all that crap, and I ain't picking it up. Fling poo in your own cage.
I agree, Matthew, Meade is not a good faith commenter.
Oh, I should have been clearer.
Don't be a jerk Sixty Grit.
Don't be Meade's butt boy, Matthew.
I have to tell you Pasta that blogging is hard. Ask EBL. Coming up with a topic everyday is a chore. Plus if you blog with a group you are kinda responsible for what they have to say. Even though you don't believe in it they will tag you with it. So you might want to think about it. It is a big commitment. If you blogged solo you would have more freedom of action.
Also I would to welcome you to post at Trooper York. You can email me at trooperyork@hotmail.com and I will send you an invite. Use a throwaway email if you want.
There are lots of things we can do with our money to make us feel good.
Please don't interpret my earlier comment as about donation as a charitable act. I/we (including my better half) make charitable contributions to both persons directly, and to organizations we appreciate who do the work we either can't or don't have time to do so. I look at charity as a form of sharing.
Now for donation, however made, to a blog, or buying a book, or acquiring a piece of art, whatever, that is just paying for something I/we like and use. In no way does it make me "feel good" per se.
LOL, Sixty!
You will be back. You are doing something I feared, but admired...parachutes yes, okay, but jumping off cliffs in a hang glider...no way. Same for base jumping. The recent flying suits are intriguing but I suspect I'd be too terrified to try it. Your excellent post on "XYZ if Gravity" about your return to the sport says it all, I could feel every word you wrote because I have lived some of them.
Cookies make me feel good. I should buy cookies.
You people need to consolidate somewhere ASAP.
This splitting you all up is all part of her evil plan.
A blog is what you make of it. Some of the personal blogs like blakes "Bit Maelstrom" have been great for a long time. Or El Pollo Raylan's blog which is a must read. But those guys are writing for different reasons than TOP.
This blog seems to be off to a great start.
Well there is one problem for Lem though.
How long until Meade asks him out?
Cool! This is getting to be like one of those 1970's sitcoms where everyone's totally honest with everyone else.
In the sixties, it was one actor playing two variations like Patty and Cathy. Or Morticia and Ophelia. Or Good Captain Kirk or Evil Captain Kirk.
Maybe I'll invent a sockpuppet or something to get things started.
Nah. Better not.
At Disney World a few weeks ago I went on the ride Soarin' for the first time. I thought I was Bag there for a minute.
"Meade is not a good faith commenter."
This is what I meant by some will accept anything:
How can Meade be considered a good faith commenter when we're all here because of he and Ann?
He's Ann's "butt boy" (to quote Sixty) and should be told we know it without anybody else giving him breathing room based on the civility of their language. The truth is they've betrayed us, and some are pissed off, and no one's to blame for that more than Meade or Ann.
Don't blame Sixty for their fuck up,...
Damn it.
Trooper York said ...
...that blogging is hard
Which is precisely why I appreciate those who do it, as I've already said here earlier today.
My Friday freedom has been delayed by a stop at work, where my step son and I just had short conversation about women. We decided that the biggest lie in a relationship is "I just want to know the truth." When you hear that, you are screwed.
One more thing before I go--
I'm the later anonymous not the previous.
Remember all the nit-semitism that was tolerated and the excuse was the--
virtue of free speech, how the hell you all didn't know it was all bullshit back then is beyond.
Try NOT to go crawling back.
Don't believe anything he says Lem.
I blog solely as a method of forcing myself to actually write more and not just say "I'll start writing that story tomorrow."
Short day at work?
anti-semitism.
I can't even remember that damn commenter's name anymore.
A thought popped in my head and I'll throw it out there: There used to be an excellent commenter whose handle was "George" with varying other things appended like "psychedelic" or "original." I thought he was great.
Anyway, he made a crack, once, about Althouse sending him paychecks for his comments. He was being sarcastic.
If Althouse cleaves the commenters from her blog, that sort of resentment goes away. No?
The money she makes from Amazon is hers and hers, alone.
Hmmmmm.
Well, commenting is sort of like giving a donation, isn't it?
Just thinking out loud, here.
Truth is hard nut to crack.
The money is a side issue. Just simple greed and sloth. Nothing to really get excited about.
Many of the commenters felt that what made that blog was the comments of the group that congregated there. The evil blogger lady feels differently. So the proof will be in the pudding. If it is successful without the commenters than the evil queen is correct. If not then they will quickly try to bring back the fanboys. But if they rebuild sometimes they will not come.
Ask anybody who has a new expensive stadium with a seat license fee.
I blog because I like naked pictures of Betty Rubble.
"No. You are not giving business. There is no transaction. No consideration. No quid pro quo. Althouse does not get from you a contract of any stripe.
You are giving a contribution; a percentage of a sum that could go to some other place."
And once she said "I laugh in your little scrunched up faces" she told you what you'd been contributing to - your own demise.
"Now for donation, however made, to a blog, or buying a book, or acquiring a piece of art, whatever, that is just paying for something I/we like and use. In no way does it make me "feel good" per se."
I take donations on my blog. No one - except for Meade - has ever asked for anything in return. When I've talked to them about it, they say the same thing as Aridog - they don't do it to feel good but to make it possible for me to continue. Let's compare:
Right now, I've been laying in bed in pain for a week and a half with a bad back, and my truck (which I need for work) is sitting dead in my driveway, for some unknown reason, because I've been laying in bed for a week and a half with a bad back. I can't see the doctor until Thursday and I have no idea if I can even afford to be seen (One asked for $1,800 up front. The low-income clinic has a 5 month waiting list.) I haven't really had a good night's sleep since Monday. I'm still nursing an ulcer from a month ago, and there's something else developing in my gut, too. I've barely taken a shit in a week. My roommate just got put in a long-term care facility - which I had to physically make happen because his family's out of town - so I've got two rooms to rent, or pay for, without him. And - on top of all that - I'm working on an album, to blow the socks off of everyone who hears it, that I can't work on because of everything else. Shit, I can't even stand for longer than 4 minutes at a time.
You may not always agree with me, or how I express myself, but I think you know I'll hear you, I'm down with you, will say I'm wrong if necessary, try to be honest, love my country, and want the right things.
But, for whatever reason, you'd rather contribute to a self-promoting feminist weirdo making $177,000 a year who hates you for your gender.
I guess I should jump on the "hate whitey" bandwagon and watch the funds roll in.
As presented to me, that's the way of the world,...
Oh ya I remember that guy--could have been a spurned suitor.
Anyoo feeling bad about implying Althouse is evil.
Evil just uses her--like its bitch.
Sixty is Trooper York's attack dog. An example of a Trroper groupie. No thanks to rancid meat, it spoils the stew.
It's pretty clear, is it not, that Trooper York here has some major jealousy issues.
Norse cosmology lacks commenters as players.
There are at least five anonymouses.
madawaskan wrote:
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Please come back madalaskan -- I've missed you!
If Margaret Cho was awake she would say that is racist.
Not really but you can say that if you want.
The jealousy that shut down the Althouse blog was the jealousy of the Instawife's book. That is when she went off the rails. To the point that she had to shut the blog down because she couldn't deal with the push back.
Trust me. Trooper York is not jealous at all of the Evil Blogger Lady. I mean seriously. She lives in Wisconsin.
Nuff said.
Aiieeeee! I see the burnt offering of the hair pulled from my head by my bloody fingertips did not help. Perhaps I should peel the skin off of my fingertips and mix it with my tears of rage and sorrow. I could place it in a nest of my toenail clippings and send it to Althouse via overnight mail. Or perhaps FedEx.
My fellow travelers in sorrow, grieve not. Soon she will soften her heart of stone and allow us back into the kingdom. Our exile is surely brief, or how shall we live? Do you not see that we are once again fighting amongst each other, do you not care that we have what hot coals for the last several days? Do you have no remorse for tearing us from the milk of your breasts?
Aieeeeee! Lamentations......
Well Lem the proof will be in who is still posting here a year from now.
So let's wait and see why don't we.
I would never miss the opportunity to say that one important thing that you still have not grasped:
BOSTON SUCKS!
Aieeee, cannot type with my bloody nubs, that should be "shat" hot coals! The baby spiders have now rolled themselves into a large ball and follow me about, like some evil pet.
Sixty is his own person Meade.
I don't have to rent a dog to have a friend.
Just sayn'
"Guys, if nobody has noticed recently, cope pretty well."
Relative to women, I'm not sure that that's true, current blog events in evidence.
I chastised Althouse more than once (never received any acknowledgement or reply, not that I expected one) in the comments for failing to at least recognize the value-add that the commenters provided for her with no expectation of remuneration.
The commenters provided much more than half of what made the blog worth reading--for free--and not only did she never (that I saw) show the slightest bit of recognition of that fact, or appreciation of their contributions, but she grew actively hostile and abusive to them and seemed to really believe that she was doing them all kinds of favors by hosting a blogspot and giving them valuable advice ("Stop acting like losers") and they should have been sooooooooooo grateful for her benevolent nature.
Looney tunes, if you ask me.
I only bought things through her portal once or twice. I'm not going to throw money at someone who loathes me. I'm funny that way.
I don't know if Lem wants us to have a mud wrestling match here Meade. He can let us know what his policy is in regard to that.
I am up for it if you are but it is not my call. Lem can tell us what he is comfortable with in his comments.
Well once he gets back from cleaning the stalls at Fenway.
Freeman, O Levelest of Heads, never forget that you are not representative of most women in that regard.
Couldn't all of these Anonymouses make pseudonyms? You would still be anonymous, but it would be much easier to follow the thread of your conversations.
WWVA Wheeling went off the air at 2:15pm, in Rush's third hour monologue, probably a Zimmerman riot starting at the transmitter.
The crowd starts shaking the antenna until it falls over.
I assume it's Norse because it has trolls.
IMHO, Althouse does not "hate men."
She has a fairly strict, traditional view of what used to be called something along the lines of "the manly virtues," if that doesn't sound too hokey.
She used to actively court commenters of a military bent. She's made reference to her parents' military background, favorably. She once asked Fen out on a date, sort of. There's much more, of course. Meade, the man she married late in life with the clearest of heads, is a man along those lines, so far as I can tell.
Military doesn't mean macho (sorry, TMR). Alhouse HATES macho. She hates macho so much that she loves the nebbishy type so long as they're clever. Woody Allen. Larry David. Sacha Baron whateverhisnameis Cohen. My Breakfast with Andre.
The military-type shows calm resolve, makes a plan, and impliments. The Larry David type invents an entertaining diversion that also somehow claims as much as can be gained from a losing situation.
When her commentariat took its position on legal and arguably unjustified discrimination against men, that set off Alhouse's I-hate-macho fight-or-flight response. Althouse went on the attack bcause she thought she was going after pseudo-manly men. She saw herself as defending the other two types of classical man.
I could be wrong.
I wasn't really paying much attention.
Cool.
Do they have the pointy hats with the horns on them?
I have to get me one because I am going on a Norwegian Cruise Line trip at the end of the summer and I want to party like a Norwegian.
I am just afraid that involves pickled herring and sweaters with reindeer on them.
Meade is a good faith husband, which is what mostly matters.
And you know that how?
I don't have a problem with her shutting down comments for a while if she wants to regroup or whatever reason she wants. It's her blog, so she can just say "I'm tired of shit, and need a break." or " "Aww don't feel noways tired. I've come too faarrr from where I started frum."
I am put off by what happened just before that. Unless she wanted to get rid of people like me, closing comments was risky at this time. I wasn't feeling the love. She was laughing at my huge metaphorical penis in Lorena Bobbitt's bloody hand and telling me to man up. The fishing is good, and it's summer.
"Althouse went on the attack because she thought she was going after pseudo-manly men. She saw herself as defending the other two types of classical man."
Better put than anyone has put it yet.
I second, IHMMP. Thanks, Lem.
Nested comments are hard.
Please send donations.
" She saw herself as defending the other two types of classical man."
If so, I don't remember her making that point. I do remember a bunch of ugly stuff, including a complete lack of compassion for men at a substantial legal disadvantage without the resources to fight back. It doesn't matter what kind of man you are in the system. All that matters is money and government power. The best man in the village can have his family and future ruined by the worst woman in the village, and Althouse would watch and giggle. That's the impression I got anyway.
Yea, I thought I'd like it, but it's too hard to see what you are missing.
Same. It works well when there are only half a dozen comments, but with over a hundred comments, it's sort of like doing a word search. (And really, who, apart from children, likes word searches?)
Kudos to Lem that this is even a problem. Congratulations on your blogging success!
Sixty Grit shot his last three wives dead.
I'm glad to see many great Althouse commenters back in action. I don't have time to read now, but will definitely bookmark the Lemblog.
Sox rawk, Trooper, and Yankees are playing like they've had too much purple drank. Maybe that's why A-Rod's lips are purple.
Althouse shows it, is how.
Aieeeee! It's even harder to follow after one has plucked an eyeball out. I'm putting it on ice in case I need to use it tomorrow. I froze it in my last bottle of Richebourg Grand Cru.
She looks like something you would scrape off the bottom of your boot.
She is a wrinkly, jowly, obese self-murdering blonde who is uglier than homemade sin. Recently she seems to have suffered a psychotic break. She is a communist. Her sons are gay.
Yeah, that proves Meade is a good faith "husband".
Delusional...
An un-nested bird and Doberman showing a perfect point.
Great picture. I am not surprised that a dog you own would be so well-trained as to not snap up the bird, but I am surprised that the bird would sit there for the pointing. Also, I am curious: what happened after?
Althouse has some posts that could attract opinions, the attraction being that your opinion is attracted, if there were comments.
"Vicki, leave the bird alone." So she walked away.
The bird is at an age where it will gape for food rather than flee.
That's more like eight grit.
I like the nested comments. Helps keep different conversations a little more separate.
(and it would drive Ritmo nuts...)
Attention! Clean up needed on row Sixty. Some kid spilled his diaper again. Who the hell brings their kid to a place like this?
Interesting. I didn't know birds would still do that once able to fly.
"She once asked Fen out on a date, sort of. There's much more, of course."
HOly shit--no way.
Libtard and all that--although the damn stories he use to tell about Maureen Dowd.
Oh wait--that's what got L'Althouse interested.
Nevermind.
Sincerely,
Cornelius Roundhouser de Horsenfat
No, she (Althouse) looks good for a woman of her years, but I think there's something wrong medically.
She's thinner, earlier her cheeks were a bit sunken (she seems to have put on a little weight), and her hair has gotten drier; all this and she started snapping at people around New Year's
Maybe it was the stress of the "election", maybe the harassment got to her, but I do think she's not feeling well and that may have more to do with her meltdown than anything.
Yeah, that was pretty rough, but since we know next to nothing of the personal lives of those we interact with on the internet, it is absurd to speculate about how faithful someone is.
Clearly, Ann is not in a good place mentally, and Meade is just throwing fuel on the fire here. He really needs to tend to the issue at hand, which is the fact that his "wife" has gone around the bend.
Sixty Grit beat his second wife when she would no longer change his diapers and feed him her breast milk out of a bottle, then he shot her dead.
In the beginning, there were two regions: Muspellsheimr in the south, full of fire, light and heat; and Niflheimr in the north, full of arctic waters, mists, and cold. Between them stretched the yawning emptiness of Ginnungagap, and into it poured sparks and smoke from the south and layers of rime-ice and glacial rivers from the north. As heat and cold met in Ginnungagap, a living Jötunn, Ymir, appeared in the melting ice. From his left armpit, the first man and woman were born.
Does that not explain commenters?
I thought it was "I ain't no ways tahrd." You need to add about 36% more Southern drawl Bagoh.
Douche-bag-o-vinegar - do you really want to jump in here and take Meade's side? Edutcher, I get - he loves him some Althouse.
But I thought you had the ability to apply reason to a situation - Meade is a bad faith commenter and a hypocrite. Maybe I am wrong, but you seemed a bit more even tempered than that.
The few times I've wandered into the Volkh Conspiracy's comments section, I ended up doing a search for my own name to find the subthreads I had participated in; alternatively, you can always search by timestamp to find where the tree is branching. But yes, branch threading can break down once you're over a hundred or so comments.
All these new blogs...it's beginning to remind me of the Tower of Babble story in the Bible.
"Military doesn't mean macho (sorry, TMR)."
That's The Macho RESPONSE. What calls for that response? Idiots, assholes, and people like Ann.
Ann hates the response she engenders.
I have 3 nesting boxes on my patio. Each has raised 2 clutches so far this year of three birds each. I also have 5 dogs, and one pond. The dogs have not hurt a single bird as they inevitably hop around the patio on their first flight. The dogs just assume that like all birds, they will fly away as soon as they get close to them, so they they don't bother trying. The pond on the other hand has claimed 3 out of 18. The pond goldfish and Koi see this as right and good. "Tastes like chicken." Pitbulls 0 - Fish 3.
Edutcher knows Althouse, like he knows The Blonde, his blowup doll. He knows every hair on his darling Ann's head and every worry wrinkle on her sweet brow.
I ate a pigeon yesterday in my delirium.
I have to say that I'm more bothered by the lack of integrity by these so called anonymi than by the grit of Sixty's abrasion.
Lem could, at the flick of a switch, block anonymous comments.
Here we shall speak Lemmish.
Aieeee! My tongue swells with sorrow.
Lem, don't let them tell you what to do, you are the master in your own house.
You can choose not to nest.
Sincerely,
Cornelius Roundehoser de Hosenfat
A couple of James Bond moments got their humor from taking on feminism
Bond has a female evaluator in the passenger seat and a lady in a fast car passes him. There follows a huge and dangerous car chase, with the evaluator screaming to stop the car.
After the chase ends in the lady spinning out, Bond stops the car.
"As you can see, I have no problem with female authority figures."
Anne Hathaway's Get Smart actually does much better at macho vs feminism entertainment.
"But I thought you had the ability to apply reason to a situation...".
I'm a college dropout. Don't know nuttin bout no reason.
But I know a man doesn't talk about a woman like that from the safety of the internet unless he's a pussy or a child. A pussy child. Now man up and say you're sorry, or I'll call you a really bad name, and since you hide your face while you sling insults, I'll assume you have really good reasons to hide.
Having all theses anons in a thread is like going to a party where several of the guests are disembodied voices.
Pussy, meow, meow meow. No more pow pow pow!
Sixty, I'm taking nobody's side, just offering a theory, based on physical observation. Trying to figure out the meltdown.
You disagree with my theory? Fine, but you seem to be doing what Althouse was doing at the end - assume an awful lot.
And you know what happens when you assume.
You also might want to get the chip off your shoulder. I have no quarrel with you, nor do I want one. If you want to expend a lot of energy hating her, it's your loss; just don't expect the rest of the universe to join you.
PS I see the She Devil of the SS is still trying to hide behind someone else again with her standard passive-aggressive pile-on techniques. She clearly knows nobody likes her so she wants to play Anonymous.
As if anyone else would imitate her drivel.
I'm betting she's banned before the weekend is over.
I don't hate her, but I don't respect her or anyone in her family.
My beef is with Meade commenting here as if he is not a hypocritical bitch - he is a dishonest man who is not at all honorable. I know about some of his past behavior and let me just say that he is a sleazy guy who latched onto a meal ticket.
You, meh, you obviously love Althouse, which, when you get right down to it, is your problem. But she is still ugly.
Aieeeeee! The noise, the noise, the noise in this salon is deafening! My ears bleed, mixing with rancid blood of raw meat on my plate. I eat in despair, I swallow the vile beetle that has crawled out from under my mushroom. I crunch away the hours in exile.
A woman who is tied up and gagged and beaten will not say a word back to you in anger. Men keep your women under control. An iron hand is needed at all times. She is the evil spawn of Eve, never forget.
Freeman Hunt wrote: Having all these anons in a thread is like going to a party where several of the guests are disembodied voices.
Or like a Twilight Zone episode link with Serling's summary Althouse zoned.
Hey we can call all of us who post here "Lemmings!"
That can help reinforce his suicidal tendencies.
Wait!
Was that too mean?
That was my idea when I started, but I've done blogging both individually and as a group before. (Technically, I'm doing so now but I haven't posted much at my place or Ambiance lately.)
But it's pretty new for a lot of people, and they're enjoying the freedom of having their own digs.
And Lem got launched today, he's going to be giddy all weekend over the traffic!
I once saw a sick pigeon in Bryant Park. So I did the one thing I always wanted to do to a pigeon.
I shit on him.
Of course I was drinking a lot more in those days. It was the eighties man.
Was that too mean?
Yeah, but why change your schtick now?
No but it explains a lot about you RH.
Look an armpit might have a lot of hair and be smelly but it is not a vagina. Just sayn'
Loyalty is ever repaid in kind. Loyalty is dashed upon the rocks of jealousy. Learn that lesson well.
Sixty, again, you're assuming an awful lot. There are other people out there wondering what happened. Are you going to tell me sydney or deborah or bag also "still love her"?
I noticed a change in her behavior around New Year's and wondered what was happening.
I have made no excuses for her behavior, which I think was reprehensible. Her little "La la la" on that last cafe was a slap in everyone's face. If she's sick medically, that excuses nothing. She could have told us all, "I'm having trouble dealing right now, so I need to shut down for a while".
And when did I ever say anything about Meade here, pro or con?
Happy?
You didn't, I did.
Loyalty is ever repaid in kind. Loyalty is dashed upon the rocks of jealousy. Learn that lesson well.
she came, we saw, he died
Lalalalala, Edutcher is always wrong. I laugh in your scrunched up face!
Hey look! The Instapundit is posting here!
Jeez, I was evicted from my loft in February, I had to leave my temporary housing in June and now I'm summarily evicted from the Althouse as well.
It's enough to give a guy a complex.
What ever happened to your first wife, Meade?
Nice to see you here Palladian. come anytime and comment.
Well, I had vowed not to go back to Althouse EVER. AGAIN. not so much because of the comments thing, but because of the way she was treating people and then piling on by only printing emails from people who agreed with her.
But in a moment of weakness today I succumbed and I'm glad I did. This place feels a little bit like the old place. Good work.
You see Glenn you have to realize that Althouse thought that when everyone was praising Dr. Smith that they were talking about the gay child molester dude on "Lost In Space." Him she has no problemo with.
But when she found out that the Dr. Smith that everyone was praising was your wife.....well she lost it.
Sorry buddy.
It'd be nice to have one-stop-shopping for Althouse-exiles to gather.
For a long time it's been the commenters that kept me coming back to Althouse, not the Red Queen herself.
I have a new post on a theme that may interest some of you. I could be wrong, but I'm guessing I'm not. In keeping with the theme of the blog I would ask that we try and keep it light.
Holy crap! This is great Lem.
First Marco Rubio is going to give you amnesty and now you picked up most of the commenters from the evil blogger lady.
My bueno amigo!
thanks.
Re: blogging vs. commenting. I agree the two are very different activities. Commenting is more of a social activity than blogging. I used to enjoy reading the conversations at Althouse, and sometimes participating. I still miss it. It truly was the most diverse community of commenters compared to other blogs. I sometimes had the feeling that many of you knew each other in real life. Was that true?
You are not kidding Icepick.
Well, I did until I found Lem's blog...
Ha! Me, too!
Aieeeee!
I'm not aware of any clear explanation from Althouse about why the comments were closed. She put up a couple of very provoking posts recently (the "losers" post about gay marriage and the "money-grubbing beta male splooge stooge" post about the WarOnMen). These posts, entirely predictably, generated a lot of mocking and counter-attacks and then counter-counter-attacks. There were some really vile comments, from both perspectives pro and con, but that's not without precedent nor was it unpredictable given the provoking post. And she could just delete such comments consistent with stated policy. But then comments were suspended without explanation. Mystery Theater. Everything since has been rumor and innuendo. There was a rumor that commenter "Mary" had dropped some bombs. There were a couple of hints from Althouse about the supposed overabundance of stubborn conservative viewpoints in the comments. There was an effort to mix it up again with Instapundit of the War On Men issue. At this point I don't care enough to read the tea leaves or reconstruct. And that's assuming there's an intellectual perspective to reconstruct and not just an emotional cyber melt down.
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