Peter Doocy does not want you to retweet this video of the many times he has been humiliated by Jen Psaki, so you know what to do. #PsakiBomb pic.twitter.com/KIkmWm8Nc0
— MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) August 23, 2021
Once screened and cleared, we will welcome these Afghans to their new home in the United States with open arms. We are a nation that has been strengthened by generations of immigrants adding their unique talents to our American tapestry.
That’s who we are. pic.twitter.com/Ar9nbXU5EY
— President Biden (@POTUS) August 23, 2021
Great scoop by @JimLaPorta… CIA, SOF and DIA going outside the wire (airport) to collect Americans and Afghans.https://t.co/NKNeB1gbbX
— InTheShadows (@Debtors_Cartel) August 21, 2021
President Joe Biden said that the Taliban had not taken any action against U.S. forces controlling Kabul airport, and had largely followed through on their pledge to let Americans reach the airport safely https://t.co/uDcV3QCJSs pic.twitter.com/sX6kri7IBw
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 23, 2021
the US withdrawal from the war in Afghanistan will inform, for better or worse, Americans' views of President Biden's judgment, competence and character
one thing unmistakably clear: he believes deeply in what he's doinghttps://t.co/gtveYmXOQt
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) August 23, 2021
Baud
Today show this morning led with weather over Afghanistan. Progress!
Immanentize
The week begins. In my case I will be in a room of 100 students (all masked) for the first time since December, 2019.
May god have mercy on our souls. Proceed!
debbie
@Immanentize:
Best of luck to you and your students!
Immanentize
@Baud: And there finally are stories about the deadly floods in this country.
Spanky
@Immanentize:
FTFY
Baud
On Today, apparently when Pfizer gets full approval for the vaccine, they can begin advertising. Didn’t realize that.
Baud
Ugh. Engel on Today show.
ETA: He seems to have calmed down.
Spanky
@Baud: I”ve seen Moderna ads on Youtube. I don’t think they’re approved, are they?
Baud
@Spanky:
They’re not. Don’t know. Just reporting what I heard.
Immanentize
@Spanky: tru dat!
Baud
@Immanentize:
What class?
Immanentize
@Baud: Criminal Law today. It’s my students’ first law school class. Pilgrims!
Tomorrow I start my international criminal law course. 100 students in Crim. 30+ students in Int. Crim. We teach because we love it. They pay us to grade.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Immanentize: Whoa. That’s a lot of people in one space. Even masked, it makes me feel squirmy.
One thing about teaching English, I never taught 100 people at once.
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone ???
Baud
@Immanentize:
Cool. I could use a “how to” refresher on that subject. Maybe it’ll be my next CLE.
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
NotMax
Can’t recall if have ever see the g word (emphasis added) in a forecast.
Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy Monday.
rikyrah
@Immanentize:
Imma,
I read that Rice had gone to online classes. How is Little Imma?
oldster
I object to publicizing “scoops” about our spy agencies going out into Kabul to risk their lives and rescue people, while it is happening.
There will be time for those stories later. Right now, a lot of lives are at stake.
Baud
@oldster:
I thought that too.
Kristine
@Immanentize:
One of the best descriptions of teaching that I’ve ever read.
Baud
@NotMax:
That photo looks scary.
indycat32
I will soon set the trap to catch the female feral cat to transport her to the clinic to be spayed. She’s consistently entered the propped open trap for two weeks to eat. Let’s hope she doesn’t balk this morning. Wish me luck.
oldster
@rikyrah:
Rice is going online for the first few weeks, because they thought they had a cluster of breakthrough cases in a highly vaccinated population.
It turns out to have been false positives, and a false alarm.
https://coronavirus.rice.edu/news/covid-19-response-weekly-update-august-22
If you were worried about Rice’s experience spelling doom for other universities, then change your worries. It was testing error.
Baud
Only took 150 years.
mrmoshpotato
Jen: Peter, do you like making an ass of yourself day in, day out? Do you get off on it?
eclare
@indycat32: Good luck!
Geminid
@NotMax: Good luck out there! Hope you don’t run out of Spam.
mrmoshpotato
@Immanentize: Hope all goes well! Does your university have a vaccine mandate?
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Immanentize:
You gonna do that tedious historical thing with the Latin, or will you launch straight into a short “society has an obligation to protect physical safety and assets, and here’s how this body of law works”.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud:
Advertising for the vaccine, or advertising more dick pills?
satby
@indycat32: Good luck! I’m going to try to grab the two I’ve been feeding this week, but I have to do it at two different locations or one capture will spook the other. Raccoons now wait for the morning feeding too, they chase the cats off soon after I leave, so my priority will be the younger, smaller female cat. Fingers crossed!
NotMax
@Dorothy A. Winsor
At one time taught an 11th grade American history class with 52 students in it.
Split period – halfway through they would all go off to lunch, then return after that for the rest of the allotted time for the class. Which meant taking attendance twice, leaving somewhere in the neighborhood of 11 minutes for any actual education.
Class held in the portable classroom furthest from the main building so the second half would never begin on time, especially during winter in Minnesota when they had to bundle up to troop across the campus.
Spanky
@mrmoshpotato: Not to get all Freudy about it, but I suspect The Dooce is quite used to being humiliated by women. Maybe it’s a comfortable familiarity, maybe he gets off on it. Who’s to say?
germy
Today is Andrew Cuomo’s last day as governor.
https://apnews.com/article/cuomo-last-day-governor-660e489dbb90037fd0d44d79efc1e6a8
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Baud: OMG, only “above half”? That’s depressing beyond words. We are a pig-ignorant society.
indycat32
@satby: the cat I’m hoping to catch has 3 6-7 week old kittens. I would love to catch them and get them to a shelter. Any suggestions how to do that
ETA: they essentially live under my neighbor’s ground level deck and only come out for food.
Spanky
@Geminid:
I heard Nigerian bankers are sending him more constantly.
eclare
@satby: Good luck to you too!
Dorothy A. Winsor
@NotMax: I never realized how bizarrely lunch period (or other scheduling) could screw with the school day until my DIL said her kindergarteners had lunch at 2pm
germy
rikyrah
@oldster:
Thanks for the info
eclare
@Dorothy A. Winsor: The thing that gets me here in Memphis are the start times. High school starts at 7! I don’t know if I would have graduated, I needed threats on a daily basis to get there at 8:30.
A coworker said his daughter had to be at the bus stop at 6:30.
Amir Khalid
@indycat32:
Good luck to both you and the kitty. May this be the start of a better life for her.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Baud:
What is that quote? “Science progresses one funeral at a time.”
rikyrah
Uh huh
Uh huh ??
3ChicsPolitico (@3ChicsPolitico) tweeted at 8:53 PM on Sun, Aug 22, 2021:
A former Pence adviser said Trump had 4 years to help Afghan allies leave the country but Stephen Miller’s ‘racist hysteria’ blocked it from happening
https://t.co/BlBdcV41Qv
(https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/1429622721827295234?s=03)
rikyrah
Skeptical Brotha ??? (@skepticalbrotha) tweeted at 4:41 AM on Mon, Aug 23, 2021:
In about a year or so historians will be asked to assess Joe Biden’s presidency and I believe that he will debut no lower than 12 and will make the top ten before he leaves office. Trump should be in prison by then and the Obamas should debut on the Forbes richest list.
(https://twitter.com/skepticalbrotha/status/1429740538924781572?s=03)
Geminid
@Spanky: I get my Spam from an Emirati princess. I’m beginning to wonder, though, if $500 a case is too much considering that is drop-shipped from Kansas City.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: 54%? Well knock me over with a feather! I was thinking 50.00000001%.
oldster
@Steeplejack (phone):
Not just science. Equally true in other areas of human learning.
I’m hoping to make my greatest contributions to my field by dying off and leaving well-trained students who can trash all of my conclusions.
satby
@indycat32: same way, put the food in a trap after you get mom cat. Get a second trap and get mom away from there first so they aren’t spooked. Best to do it all the same day if you can, they’re too young to go long without mom, she’s probably still nursing them too. Try to rig the trap so it doesn’t close before they’re all in, easier said than done, I know.
Amir Khalid
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
“… now solidly above the halfway mark” suggests a recent improvement. Like, belief in evolution used to be not solidly above the halfway mark, or even below it. So that sounds encouraging, kind of.
rikyrah
Jennifer ‘pro-voting’ Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) tweeted at 6:59 AM on Mon, Aug 23, 2021:
expecting a flawless exit from a quagmire one perpetuated over two decades is unfair — and cowardly. Reporters who have themselves been spun about the war’s progress might be more candid about what the administration is achieving despite the chaos.
https://t.co/dHgi7W8kv1
(https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1429775373114413067?s=03)
Dorothy A. Winsor
@eclare: I’ve read that if you paid attention to student body-time, primary grades would start early because those kids get up early, plus their parents have to get them stashed somewhere before they go to work. OTOH, high school would start late because teenagers want to sleep in. But most places do the opposite because of sports. High schools want to have practice after school and to leave time for that, you have to start early.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Baud: It sure seems like the MSM has gone full Reality TV lately, if it’s not two white guys screaming at each other the MSM isn’t interested.
narya
I keep thinking about the comments thread from last night’s prisoners-making-quilts story; there were so many good perspectives there, so many deeply held beliefs, and lived experiences. Figuring out what concepts like “justice” and “atonement” and “harm” mean, in real life. Made me want to meet that comment thread in person and talk about it over a beer.
rikyrah
Alexander Marquardt (@MarquardtA) tweeted at 6:43 AM on Mon, Aug 23, 2021:
Source confirms Qatari ambassador in Kabul is escorting Americans and Afghans to airport in buses and even his own car. “He knows [the Taliban] will respect him,” the source says. “He knows the risks but we also know Qatar is respected by everyone there.”
(https://twitter.com/MarquardtA/status/1429771315687436290?s=03)
NotMax
Never hurts to start a week with a smile. Can’t seem to track down the original audio, what follows is a transcription of Stan Freberg on the merits of radio:
YOUNGER WOMAN: Pardon me, what did you look at while the radio was on?
OLD WOMAN: Oh, we looked at each other. Kind of stared off into space while Inner Sanctum was on. The Whistler, The Shadow… “The weed of crime bears bitter fruit,” do you know who said that?
YOUNGER WOMAN: Who?
OLD WOMAN: Lamont Cranston, that’s who. Compared to him, my dear, James Bond is a fink!
YOUNGER WOMAN: But I still don’t know what you used for pictures.
FREBERG: You used your imagination.
YOUNGER WOMAN: Your what?
FREBERG: Look. You could do things on radio that you couldn’t possibly do on television. My sound effects man and I will give you a demonstration right now.
MARYANN: Okay.
FREBERG: Now people, when I give you the cue, I want the 500 foot mountain of whipped cream to be shoved into Lake Michigan, which has been drained and filled with hot chocolate. Then the Royal Canadian Air Force will appear overhead, towing a ten ton maraschino cherry, which will be dropped into the whipped cream to the cheering of 25,000 extras. All right, cue the mountain! [Corresponding Effect] Cue the Air Force! [Corresponding Effect] Cue the maraschino cherry! [Corresponding Effect] Okay, 25,000 cheering extras! [Corresponding Effect] Now, you wanna try that on television?
YOUNGER WOMAN: I see what you mean.
FREBERG: You see, radio was a very special medium. It stretched the imagination.
YOUNGER WOMAN: But doesn’t television stretch the imagination?
FREBERG: Up to 21 inches, yes.
OLD WOMAN: Mr. Freberg?
FREBERG: Yes?
OLD WOMAN: What did they do with all those radio people? Did they go into a rest home?
FREBREG: No, they went into television, and after about 26 weeks they went into a rest home! Thanks for being with us!
mrmoshpotato
@rikyrah:
I too review books before I’ve finished reading them!
satby
Kevin Drum gives a hat tip to Cheryl Rofer in this post.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Amir Khalid: You have low standards for “encouraging.”
I’ve been watching old seasons of Amazing Race on Prime and sometimes they make me despair. Yesterday, they had to find a statue of Joan of Arc, and this pretty young woman said “he” was the one who had the animals. Her partner corrected her, saying no that was Noah, and Joan was a woman. I know I’m ignorant about a lot of things too, but holy cow.
rikyrah
Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) tweeted at 8:30 PM on Fri, Aug 20, 2021:
Moderna Inc said on Friday it will require COVID-19 vaccination for all its employees in the United States from October. https://t.co/O5q04w52Mr
(https://twitter.com/Reuters_Health/status/1428892164646477829?s=03)
Kay
@rikyrah:
It’s a huge evacuation. The situation for the Afghans is different, much more difficult, but for the (civilian non government) Americans I don’t know what the administration could have done. They told them to get out in May. I guess they could have ordered them out in some fashion although I’m not even sure about that.
eclare
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Somehow when I was in high school (decades ago, I know), we still had sports, clubs, etc.
And yes, eled here starts at 9.
satby
@narya: I found it disappointing. I had to leave, though I went back this morning to say something more.
RSA
There’s also the one along the lines of “95% of what scientists once believed about the world has been shown to be wrong.”
mrmoshpotato
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
What is your definition of “lately?”
John S.
@Dorothy A. Winsor: The problem here is that rather than simply say, “I don’t know who Joan of Arc is” and allowing themselves to be educated, that person probably decided it would be better to just make shit up.
This is the challenge we face today. It’s not just the militant ignorance, it’s the unwillingness to learn and to even allow oneself the opportunity to learn due to hubris and stubbornness.
Walker
@Immanentize: I raise you 800 (in a performance hall)
Kathleen
@NotMax: My dad had a stack of comedy albums he played when I was a kid. Stan Freberg, Bob and Ray, Lenny Bruce and Jack Benny. Thx for bringing back those childhood memories.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax:
Oddly missing from any Chicago history I’ve ever heard!
narya
@satby: I just went back to see your comment, and I agree wholeheartedly with what you said. (I keep typing more and erasing it, so I’ll leave it at that.) What always appealed to me about philosophy was the prospect of using a philosopher’s tools to talk about real people’s real lives, in all the messy complexity–and not just for the sake of talking, for the hard task of figuring out how to go forward. That’s why I love “The Good Place” so much.
rikyrah
And The Tweet Goes On (@lacadri34) tweeted at 10:20 PM on Sun, Aug 22, 2021:
So why is the Portland police & FBI allowing white supremacists to tear up the city again?
(https://twitter.com/lacadri34/status/1429644564567109632?s=03)
Soprano2
It’s not that uncommon for the national press to ignore stories like this for several days when they happen away from the coasts . I’m not surprised it took this long for the story to break through; they spent all their weather reporting time talking about Henri.
trnc
I didn’t expect them to be screaming at each other outside the briefing room, and I notice that she doesn’t indicate in any way that his interactions seem any more intelligent outside than in.
Geminid
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Didn’t Saint Francis of Assisi run a petting zoo?
mrmoshpotato
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Joan’s ark, sadly, has been historically underreported.
debbie
LOL. Listening to Richard Armitage on NPR. He refers to the “conga line of grifters parading as Cabinet members” of TFG’s administration. ?
mrmoshpotato
@narya:
That was such a good show. And now I want a burrito.
satby
@narya: Thanks. Also a Good Place fan.
mrmoshpotato
@debbie: Conga line slam!
satby
Heather Cox Richardson today:
Interestingly, much of the U.S. media is describing this scenario as a disaster for President Biden. Yet, on CNN this morning, Matthew Dowd, who was the chief strategist for the Bush-Cheney ticket in 2004, noted that more than 20,000 people have been evacuated from Afghanistan without a single loss of an American life, while in the same period of time, 5000 Americans have died from Covid-19 and 500 have died from gunshots.
eclare
@satby: Same here about The Good Place, but I’m not done, no spoilers!
oldgold
Currently watching CNN. Worst emocasting I have ever seen. Just clicked It off. Unwatchable. That was not journalism.
Anybody else watch it?
WereBear
@indycat32: All the luck!
I predict seeing ads on the teevee will create more people sneaking out to get vaccinated.
Drugs adds has an incredible power over Faux News viewers, at least from hurried observation. They sure are packed with such.
trnc
@satby: Good to know. Thanks.
mrmoshpotato
@eclare:
Envious!
Citizen Alan
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
I remember that season. The casting choices for amazing race usually called for called for reasonably intelligent people who love the idea of traveling and experiencing new things. And then they would fill out the cast with fashion models so viewers who don’t like the idea of traveling and experiencing new things will have someone pretty to look at.
mrmoshpotato
Via HillaryWarnedUs
Co-sign!
prostratedragon
For the composer’s birthday (the one with “Claire de Lune”):
prostratedragon
@Immanentize: “We teach because we love it. They pay us to grade.”
Oh Lord, yes! Best wishes — no doubt it will feel like the first time ever.
Betty Cracker
I needed to see these critters this morning. Maybe you do too…
Hildebrand
@Immanentize: Good luck on the new term.
A request – my daughter is interested in International Law (she is a second year undergrad, but is starting to think about law schools), could you share a beginners reading list, or even your syllabus? That would be awesome.
Steeplejack
@oldster:
It’s important to have goals, even late in life!
zhena gogolia
@debbie: Oh, THAT Richard Armitage. You had me going there for a minute. I couldn’t figure out why the actor who played the king of the dwarves in The Hobbit was opining on U.S. foreign policy.
Here’s the Richard Armitage who really counts — his 50th birthday was yesterday.
https://vimeo.com/590039802
zhena gogolia
Sigh. What do you do when you get comments telling you to completely rewrite an article right when you need to be preparing to teach?
I’m too old for this s–t.
Bunter
@zhena gogolia: I had the same reaction! Was a bit confused there for a moment.
eclare
@prostratedragon: Oh gawd! My piano teacher so wanted me to learn Claire de Lune. I was such a disappointment!
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
Filling Lake Michigan with hot chocolate.
germy
@Betty Cracker:
“Would you like another pea?”
“No thanks, I’m full.”
Dorothy A. Winsor
@zhena gogolia: I too was confused as to why Thorin was opining on US foreign policy.
Ken
“Today we’re having a pop quiz on what we learned last week. You have the entire hour. I will be using my laptop to… to grade papers.”
narya
@mrmoshpotato: @satby: @eclare: I HIGHLY recommend the podcast. I’m not much of a podcast person, but I have been loving these, as I do a rewatch of the entire show (and contemplate purchasing it . . .). Marc Evan Jackson (Shawn) is the host, and it’s just really fun and good. He ends each episode by asking the guests “what’s good?” Also, Neednoggle (sp?) becomes a verb.
...now I try to be amused
@satby: It makes me wonder what the British press wrote about Churchill’s handling of the Dunkirk evacuation.
There go two miscreants
Thank you for starting my day with a hearty laugh!
Josie
@rikyrah:
I’m guessing you’ll never see this in a front page story or the leading story on a tv news show.
RSA
@zhena gogolia: Wow, time flies. I still remember Richard Armitage as the heartthrob on Vicar of Dibley and in Robin Hood.
zhena gogolia
@Ken: Haha, I don’t operate that way. (Some do.)
indycat32
Successful trap and transport of feral cat!!! No more kittens!
zhena gogolia
@RSA:
He’s still pretty heartthrobby! See Uncle Vanya.
I’m an obsessive about my acting/singing favorites. I go through these periods of collecting everything about them. With this guy it’s hard because of the sheer volume of material. There are people on YouTube who have gone through whole miniseries and excerpted just his scenes and strung them together into videos. It would take a lifetime to go through it all.
zhena gogolia
@indycat32:
Yay!
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Truncated version, yet still nice to revisit. Thanks.
The best comedians never throw away a bit.
;)
James E Powell
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
That’s like the opening scene in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
satby
@indycat32: Yay you!
I’m about to leave for work at the doctor’s office, where I get to drop the vaccine mandate hammer today ?, but my capture is put off for at least a week. We took in a young litter and they were positive for the feline version of parvo even though we vaccinated, and now may have to euthanize up to 10 or more cats and kittens who might have been exposed; though all are isolated from others and vaccinated ASAP when we take them in. We can put them in the cat room after isolation and a week after the first vaccine usually. Most are under observation, and we may dodge the bullet on some older ones, but this litter was probably exposed in utero. Emotional and financial disaster. Hard to believe 2021 is sucking worse than 2020.
rikyrah
@satby:
YEAH!!!
sab
@satby: That’s terrible. Poor cats, poor cat rescuers.
debbie
@zhena gogolia:
LOL, I’d forgotten your fan-girlness! ?
indycat32
@satby: So sad. Poor kitties.
zhena gogolia
@debbie:
I’m terrible.
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@Baud: al roker can only be denied so long
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@mrmoshpotato: send in an mlb umpire crew for a gunk check on pete
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@rikyrah: because the portland police bureau are the proudest bois
J R in WV
@mrmoshpotato:
Wife and I have both watched this — wonderful production. LOL on every sentence Doocy utters when Psaki asnwers. She is so great, he is such a dork. Dumbass also too !!!
I have to wonder if someone helps him with a daily question, or if he manages to be that stupid all by himself? No telling from out here.
J R in WV
@germy:
Obviously, from here on a rural WV hillside, we have no personal knowledge of Cuomo’s actions. BUT I have read that when he left the governor’s mansion, he abandoned “his” dog, which was most likely actually just a political prop. I can’t imagine moving out without all the dogs (currently 3) and cats (2)…
Also understand he doesn’t currently have his own home to move into. Apparently counted on always being governor? Like Former VP Pence, couch surfing with “friends” since being ousted from the Naval Observatory when MVP Harris moved in. Sad! Amusing too, tho…
J R in WV
@satby:
Sympathy for your poor kitties. Many years ago (35? or so) we were gifted with a pair of Maine Coon cats, who were adorable, secure, friendly even with a crowd. We were told by everyone that Maine Coons don’t breed until they are 3 or 4 — maybe some are like that, but ours did it very young.
Kittens were born on Wife’s pillow one morning — 5 of them. We took them in for shots, and gifted a kitten to one of the Vets. A couple of weeks later she called us with the bad news that her kitten was positive for Feline Leukemia, for which at that time there was no vaccine, no cure. It presented more like Feline Aids, with different terrible symptoms for each victim.
She recommended putting the parents and kittens all down immediately. That was SOP, to avoid becoming attached. Haha. Too late for that! They had no symptoms yet, so we decided to let them have their happy life, however short it might be. Was terrible. All different flavors of terrible. Partial paralysis, heart diesase, liver failure, I forget the other two.
And these cats had the best of care and attention. So sad. We still have lots of cats, all fully vaccinated for everything they have invented cat vaccines for.
Currently our two cats are having thyroid issues, on special diet, seems to be helping. One of them is a little hard to handle in terms of giving her pills. Leather gloves and team work would be required.
Sympathy, best wishes. At least your unvaxed person will either go away or be vaxed! Couldn’t deal with that!
Miss Bianca
@oldgold:
I am totally stealing this neologism. Thank you!
ETtheLibrarian
I am amused AF that the picture of him before the fireplace features the official bound copies of previous Presidential Papers (begins with Kennedy).