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Althouse: "Yeah. I mean, man, each book, you get more right wing. I have to say, you get, like, the last one. I remember you were on my show, and it was, like..."

5 days ago | althouse.blogspot.com | Ann Althouse

"... one line in it that was — and I said to you on the air — like, are you implying that that, Trump, that election was stolen by Biden... you were kinda like hedging it. And now you're like, you, you...."Bill Maher lapses into near-babbling in the presence of David Mamet, who remained calm and quietly eloquent. The quoted part begins around 5 minutes in.
"These kids never learned the proper way to be a barfly."

5 days ago | althouse.blogspot.com | Ann Althouse

Said an L.A. bartender, quoted in "Gen Z Doesn’t Want to Start a Bar Tab/To the chagrin of bartenders, many 20-something bargoers prefer to close out and pay after every single drink, no matter how many they might order during an outing" (NYT). [B]artenders have tried gently nudging them to consider opening tabs.... Others opt for something more overt....
"I was irked 30 years ago when our neighbor said she intended to install a free-standing fence between our driveways...."

5 days ago | althouse.blogspot.com | Ann Althouse

Writes Margaret Renkl, in "What if Robert Frost’s Neighbor Was Right?" (NYT)(free-access link, the first of the 10 allotted to me in June). By the time she died two years ago, the unbeloved fence had become the scaffolding for pokeweed and native vines.... The fence had been built in a shadowbox style, and the gaps between the boards gave reaching vines room for twisting.... After our neighbor passed, a developer bought her modest, meticulously maintained house and reduced it to rubble....
"Your post titled 'Is the news of Biden's advanced cancer news of a terrible scandal?' was flagged to us for review."

5 days ago | althouse.blogspot.com | Ann Althouse

"We have determined that it violates our guidelines and deleted the post, previously at https://althouse.blogspot.com/2025/05/is-news-of-bidens-advance-cancer-news.html. Why was your blog post deleted? Your content has been evaluated according to our Hate Speech policy. Please visit our Community Guidelines page... to learn more....
Althouse: "For years now, progressives have been engaged in a competition of sorts, which is like, 'In the hierarchy of intersectionality, who has the most right to be upset?'"

5 days ago | althouse.blogspot.com | Ann Althouse

"And that has put conservative white men in particular on the defensive at a time when they’re already freaked out about shifting social and economic hierarchies. So a lot of people are tired of feeling guilty, and they have been very open to the idea that empathy or compassion is a weakness...."Said Michelle Cottle, in "Why Politics Feels So Cruel Right Now/Three Opinion writers on the death of empathy in America" (NYT). So there's the "hierarchy of intersectionality," the "social...
Democrats attempt to teach themselves how to speak with American men.

6 days ago | althouse.blogspot.com | Ann Althouse

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Joni Ernst serves up death, apology, sarcasm, and Jesus.

6 days ago | althouse.blogspot.com | Ann Althouse

Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse pic.twitter.com/aElIudNmZG— Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) May 31, 2025 I had to go back to this after reading about it because I had clicked it off in disgust thinking it was an genuine effort to make a "sincere" apology.
Sandhill cranes take a long lunch.

6 days ago | althouse.blogspot.com | Ann Althouse

From the driver-side window, Meade takes a 24-second video:VIDEO After our hike, riding home, 2 hours later, I take a 24-second video from the passenger-side window at exactly the same spot:VIDEOOne might casually and shallowly dream of needing to eat constantly, just to maintain a healthy weight, but imagine living like this!
"The F.B.I.’s increasingly pervasive use of the polygraph, or a lie-detector test, has only intensified a culture of intimidation."

6 days ago | althouse.blogspot.com | Ann Althouse

"Mr. Patel has wielded the polygraph to keep agents or other employees from discussing a number of topics, including his decision-making or internal moves. Former agents say he is doing so in ways not typically seen in the F.B.I.... Jim Stern, who conducted hundreds of polygraphs while an F.B.I. agent, said... that if someone violated policy, the F.B.I. could polygraph them.
"This dude’s the last guy I want to tell us about 'we lost our way.' You’re the guy who lost.'"

6 days ago | althouse.blogspot.com | Ann Althouse

Said Tim Walz, talking about himself, in "'I Didn’t Get It Done': A Reflective Tim Walz Wants to Make Good/Last year’s Democratic vice-presidential nominee has thrown himself into a robust atonement-and-explanation tour, though aides insist there is no grand strategy" (NYT).

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Althouse

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Althouse: "Yeah. I mean, man, each book, you get more right wing. I have to say, you get, like, the last one. I remember you were on my show, and it was, like..."

"These kids never learned the proper way to be a barfly."

"I was irked 30 years ago when our neighbor said she intended to install a free-standing fence between our driveways...."

"Your post titled 'Is the news of Biden's advanced cancer news of a terrible scandal?' was flagged to us for review."

Althouse: "For years now, progressives have been engaged in a competition of sorts, which is like, 'In the hierarchy of intersectionality, who has the most right to be upset?'"

Democrats attempt to teach themselves how to speak with American men.

Joni Ernst serves up death, apology, sarcasm, and Jesus.

Sandhill cranes take a long lunch.

"The F.B.I.’s increasingly pervasive use of the polygraph, or a lie-detector test, has only intensified a culture of intimidation."

"This dude’s the last guy I want to tell us about 'we lost our way.' You’re the guy who lost.'"

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