Trump: I Love to Read
Business Insider quotes Trump holding forth about his love of reading. I can’t find video, but here’s the quote:
Well, you know, I love to read. Actually, I’m looking at a book, I’m reading a book, I’m trying to get started. Every time I do about a half a page, I get a phone call that there’s some emergency, this or that. But we’re going to see the home of Andrew Jackson today in Tennessee and I’m reading a book on Andrew Jackson. I love to read. I don’t get to read very much, Tucker, because I’m working very hard on lots of different things, including getting costs down. The costs of our country are out of control. But we have a lot of great things happening, we have a lot of tremendous things happening.
Every time he does about half a page, there’s some emergency? Wow! That’s something like an emergency an hour!
Don’t get me wrong: he’s doing pretty well as President, policy-wise. I can put up with this type of nonsense if that’s what it takes to get a budget that cuts discretionary spending, an executive order on immigration that is more narrowly tailored and protects the country (and should not be blocked), an excellent Supreme Court nominee, and an attack on regulations.
Just don’t ask me to believe he reads books. The man’s never read a book in his life. I’d put money on it.
UPDATE:
I just realized how to keep us all safe from a nuclear first strike by Donald Trump: hide the nuclear codes inside a book.
— Patterico (@Patterico) March 18, 2017
[Cross-posted at RedState and The Jury Talks Back.]
he’s so good
happyfeet (28a91b) — 3/17/2017 @ 9:40 amI like on the record accounts when possible:
http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/trump-health-care-bill-not-entirely-consistent-promises
narciso (d1f714) — 3/17/2017 @ 9:58 amHis ‘travel ban’ has been killed-twice; Ryan’s AHCA is dying on life-support and his budget is DOA. But it HAS been a helluva show so far.
For Americans don’t want to be governed, they wish to be entertained.
“Let me entertain you.” – Gypsy Rose Lee [Natalie Wood] ‘Gypsy’ 1958
DCSCA (797bc0) — 3/17/2017 @ 10:00 amYou would expect a reader to be more reflective.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 3/17/2017 @ 10:02 amTo be fair, it’s unclear that Obama read much either. Maybe a basketball memoir.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 3/17/2017 @ 10:06 amReading a review is not the same as reading the book.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 3/17/2017 @ 10:06 amHe reads menus. And Breitbart.
“Book’em, Dan-O.” – Steve McGarrett [Jack Lord] ‘Hawaii Five-O’ CBS TV, 1968-1980
DCSCA (797bc0) — 3/17/2017 @ 10:07 amBy judges who don’t bother to read the law, Ryan’s bowl of pouting was always dodge.
narciso (d1f714) — 3/17/2017 @ 10:19 amHe reads some tweets. You can at least say that.
https://mobile.twitter.com/realdonaldtrump
Sammy Finkelman (ce04e1) — 3/17/2017 @ 10:21 amBooks can be a lot of fun, they’re my favorite entertainment, but few are good for much else, and even with the best of them you’re giving credence to other men’s conceits. As long as you know what you need to know ….
Reagan claimed the opposite (of Trump). He said he didn’t like to read. Carter claimed he taught himself to speed-read. Whatevs.
nk (dbc370) — 3/17/2017 @ 10:27 amI’m sure Trump has read at least two books in his life, just to know what the ghostwriters actually said he said
https://www.amazon.com/Trump-Art-Deal-Donald-J/dp/0399594493/ref=sr_1_1/157-8171005-7806333?ie=UTF8&qid=1489771707&sr=8-1&keywords=donald+trump
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Again-How-Crippled-America/dp/1501138006/ref=sr_1_3/157-8171005-7806333?ie=UTF8&qid=1489771707&sr=8-3&keywords=donald+trump
kishnevi (870883) — 3/17/2017 @ 10:31 amFor true Nevertrumpers, btw, there’s this
https://www.amazon.com/MTS-Trump-Toilet-Paper/dp/B01KGFW01U/ref=sr_1_4/157-8171005-7806333?ie=UTF8&qid=1489771707&sr=8-4&keywords=donald+trump
kishnevi (870883) — 3/17/2017 @ 10:32 am“Don’t get me wrong: he’s doing pretty well as President, policy-wise. I can put up with this type of nonsense if that’s what it takes to get a budget that cuts discretionary spending, an executive order on immigration that is more narrowly tailored and protects the country (and should not be blocked), an excellent Supreme Court nominee, and an attack on regulations.”
There you go! Don’t sweat the small stuff, just be happy that policy-wise, he’s doing pretty good. Far better than at least 14 of the original 17 Republican candidates would. Let the media and other liberals worry about Trump’s twitter and other reflexive comments.
Mike S (89ec89) — 3/17/2017 @ 11:16 amHe’s brought along the right demolition team
https://spectator.org/trumps-terrible-swift-sword/
narciso (d1f714) — 3/17/2017 @ 11:21 amPatterico, I’ll take that bet. I’ve got $5.00 says Trump has read more books than your snide insult acknowledges.
Slowly you’ve come around to admit Trump has made a few decisions that merit respect if not praise. Why not take the next step and give the man the full measure of his due?
If you agree I’ve got 5 bucks coming, put it in your tip jar with my compliments.
Trump is exactly the right man America needs, and he’s come just in the nick of time. Judge him by his accomplishments, openly and fairly. Criticize him when he deserves it, but sing his praises when his policies coincide with your hopes for a better future.
ropelight (b80f14) — 3/17/2017 @ 11:43 amWill the rubber hit the road:
http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/trumps-brutally-honest-budget-puts-gop-lawmakers-on-the-spot
narciso (d1f714) — 3/17/2017 @ 11:44 amObama couldn’t even read a map… witness his “been to all 57 states”… but he sure knows where Kenya and Cuba are… amirite?
Colonel Haiku (384e8e) — 3/17/2017 @ 11:47 amEr, you do know Trump graduated from Penn with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics. He also is the author of 69 books. http://www.paperbackswap.com/Donald-J-Trump/author/
I’ll bet you $10,000 Trump has read a book.
Leon (168f33) — 3/17/2017 @ 11:48 amFrom the link @16:
This, of course, is why Republicans were kicked out of office and the TEA Party was formed. 10 more years of broken promises is why Trump was elected. If these losers don’t get with the program this time, they will go the way of the Whigs. I hope they know this, by they seem to be exceptionally slow learners.
Leon (168f33) — 3/17/2017 @ 12:00 pmMr. Trump’s a very good prolific reader – he’s inquisitive and also he likes to read the books.
Just not during emergencies.
happyfeet (28a91b) — 3/17/2017 @ 12:13 pmPresser over! Time for a sauerkraut-borscht-strawberries buffet!
Trump Administration apologizes to Britain for citing Fox Newsers bogus opinion about Brits spying then Spicey says ‘no regrets’ to press in crowd at Merkel-Trump presser. As predicted, Trump then blames Fox, [‘talk to them, not me’] and pivots off Merkel-Obama wiretap w/snarky quip ‘we have something in common, perhaps.’
Funny and sad. Funny the Chancellor of Germany is infinitely more credible than the American President. Sad that just 60 days into his administration, nobody believes a damn thing the President of the United States says. Nobody.
“They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond a shadow of a doubt and with… geometric logic… that duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist…”- Captain Queeg [Humphrey Bogart] ‘The Caine Mutiny’ 1954
DCSCA (797bc0) — 3/17/2017 @ 12:13 pmIf Trump did read books, he’d have a better vocabulary. (Trump, if you’re reading this: voh- kab-yuh-ler-ee – noun, it means you know words. Lots of words. Big words. The best, world-class words… Believe me. That I can tell you.)
Tillman (a95660) — 3/17/2017 @ 12:16 pmTrump reads titles. Not books.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 3/17/2017 @ 12:19 pmGreetings:
Me, I’m thinking that he may be a bit down today what with meeting Mutter Merkel and missing NYC’s St. Patrick’s Day march. Someone pass him that pooteen jug.
11B40 (6abb5c) — 3/17/2017 @ 12:25 pm17. Colonel Haiku (384e8e) — 3/17/2017 @ 11:47 am
And he didnt know how many senators were in the United states Senate or couldn’t divide 100 by 2?
He just got a bit rattled somehow. He used the word sates when he was thinkingof delegations to the Democratic National COnvention.
The other 7 “states” can be found on the 2009 quarters plus “Democrats Abroad.”
The list:
51. District of Columbia
52. Puerto Rico
53. Virgin Islands
54. Guam
55. American Samoa
56. Northern Mariannas.
57. Democrats Abroad. (American citizens not living in the United States who also have no U.S. address or are not using one.)
Sammy Finkelman (ce04e1) — 3/17/2017 @ 12:40 pm“Funny and sad. Funny the Chancellor of Germany is infinitely more credible than the American President. Sad that just 60 days into his administration, nobody believes a damn thing the President of the United States says. Nobody.”
“The less a man makes declarative statements, the less apt he is to look foolish in retrospect.” -Quentin Tarantino in Four Rooms
Leon (168f33) — 3/17/2017 @ 12:42 pmHere’s one Trump breezed thru in one evening…
https://www.amazon.com/Reasons-Vote-Democrats-Comprehensive-Guide/dp/1543024971
Colonel Haiku (384e8e) — 3/17/2017 @ 12:43 pm25… looks like too little too late excuse-making, Sammy… like kicking a dead corpseman.
Colonel Haiku (384e8e) — 3/17/2017 @ 12:46 pm@27. Plagiarism? “The Wit and Wisdom of Spiro T. Agnew” was a similar tomb.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 3/17/2017 @ 12:50 pmIt should take you 30 seconds t read “half a page” of a book. If you read. There are not emergencies every 30 seconds anywhere.
What were Trump’s grades at Penn, Leon? Oh right. He won’t tell us.
No, I don’t think he has read a book. But how would you prove he had? Because the liar says so?
Patterico (0aa613) — 3/17/2017 @ 12:53 pmOK maybe at a 911 call center. Maybe not even then.
Patterico (0aa613) — 3/17/2017 @ 12:54 pmDCSCA @29. It’s tome, not tomb.
Sammy Finkelman (ce04e1) — 3/17/2017 @ 12:56 pmSafe to say we have seen enough to know nothing has changed about Trunp as a person. And nothing ever will.
What he does is more important. I will never praise him as a person. He is pond scum. But he may do OK even so, despite being pond scum, and that is more important.
Patterico (0aa613) — 3/17/2017 @ 12:59 pm28. I said this already for a few years. This is not an excuse – that’s the real explanation as to where the 57 states came from. Too bad Obama or his people don’t seem to have figured it out, then or later. Snopes didn’t either.
Sammy Finkelman (ce04e1) — 3/17/2017 @ 1:01 pmPerennially, asking a politician what their favorite book or author is has always elicited the stupidest answers in politics.
SPQR (a3a747) — 3/17/2017 @ 1:05 pm“What were Trump’s grades at Penn, Leon? Oh right. He won’t tell us.”
Give this man a show on CNN or MSNBC!
Colonel Haiku (384e8e) — 3/17/2017 @ 1:07 pmProbably the best book I’ve ever read was Shantaram: https://www.amazon.com/Shantaram-Novel-Gregory-David-Roberts/dp/0312330537
You owe it to yourself to read that one.
Tillman (a95660) — 3/17/2017 @ 1:27 pmLittle shift in emphasis to reveal the real story (you buried it a bit)
This is language aimed at sphincter court judges, representing nobody, from the fiefdom of Dole Hawaii.
Plain as day for those who are able to read.
papertiger (c8116c) — 3/17/2017 @ 1:43 pmLet me paraphrase , “Hey! Nice monopoly you got going there. Shame if something happened to it.”
papertiger (c8116c) — 3/17/2017 @ 1:49 pm“No, I don’t think he has read a book. But how would you prove he had? Because the liar says so?”
Well, let’s just say I would trust him on the subject more than I do you.
Leon (168f33) — 3/17/2017 @ 2:34 pmHow about Stephenson cryptonomicom
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN16O2J2
narciso (32dca5) — 3/17/2017 @ 2:34 pmTillman, in the interests of turning a hateful, nasty post into something a little more constructive, here’s my favorite I recommend to one and all:
https://www.amazon.com/Soldier-Great-War-Mark-Helprin/dp/0156031132
Leon (168f33) — 3/17/2017 @ 2:40 pmJonah Goldberg today:
Sammy Finkelman (6f9f42) — 3/17/2017 @ 2:43 pmnk @10
Very nice comment.
ThOR (c9324e) — 3/17/2017 @ 2:49 pmYes Patterico, he is a bit busier than you and has difficulty as POTUS getting time to read and contemplate.
You may say he should make time but I understood exactly what he as saying. Busy man who likes to read but does not have time to do so.
Blah Blah (44eaa0) — 3/17/2017 @ 2:51 pmI loved it when Bush Jr. said The Very Hungry Caterpillar was one of his favorite books. What a perfectly unpretentious thing to say.
ThOR (c9324e) — 3/17/2017 @ 2:54 pm44. And 10. – Speaking of another man’s (or woman’s) conceits, that’s why I never understood the self-help motivational genre. If I see that taking up the most shelf space in a date’s bookshelf, I try to weasel my way out later in the evening.
urbanleftbehind (6db368) — 3/17/2017 @ 2:56 pm42. That looks like a good book, Leon. I’d like to read it, so I added it to my list.
Tillman (a95660) — 3/17/2017 @ 2:56 pmHe had to have read “Go Dog Go”
mg (31009b) — 3/17/2017 @ 2:59 pmThere’s another one, memoir from an ant proof case, from the same authors
narciso (d1f714) — 3/17/2017 @ 3:01 pmWow did anyone kiss The Blarney Stone today?
Pinandpuller (aeb9b4) — 3/17/2017 @ 3:12 pmSt Patrick the patron saint of personal injury and DUI lawyers. Yet he still didn’t like snakes.
Pinandpuller (aeb9b4) — 3/17/2017 @ 3:13 pmMy oldest daughter is in Dingle for St. Paddy’s Day.
mg (31009b) — 3/17/2017 @ 3:18 pmbarack read stories about basketball at espn.com
losing
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 3/17/2017 @ 3:21 pmThe 9th circus is a water of time:
narciso (d1f714) — 3/17/2017 @ 3:28 pmhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-appeals-judge-s-decision-to-block-trump-s-travel-ban-1489780586
10. You don’t “taech” yourself to speed read. It just happens.
Sammy Finkelman (3ea6b3) — 3/17/2017 @ 3:29 pmHow the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman. Suck it English and Irish scum.
I’m only halfway through so nobody tell me how it ends.
Pinandpuller (aeb9b4) — 3/17/2017 @ 3:36 pmTrump admin creates international incident when Spicer references noted idiot Judge Napolitano’s conspiracy theory that British intelligence helped “tapp” Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/world/europe/trump-britain-obama-wiretap-gchq.html
Davethulhu (fab944) — 3/17/2017 @ 3:43 pmRopelight
If you want to sing Trump’s praises around here you’re going to have to hire Richard Sterban.
Pinandpuller (aeb9b4) — 3/17/2017 @ 3:44 pmIs a dingle like a dickiedoo?
Pinandpuller (aeb9b4) — 3/17/2017 @ 3:45 pmhttps://www.bing.com/images/search?q=dingle+ireland&id=355E6AF890C37004751C4D65548C73F77AF8C19D&FORM=IARRTH
mg (31009b) — 3/17/2017 @ 3:50 pmCruz Supporter
How you gonna top underwater grottos filled with apes eating figs?
Pinandpuller (aeb9b4) — 3/17/2017 @ 3:51 pmI’m only halfway through so nobody tell me how it ends.
Pinandpuller (aeb9b4) — 3/17/2017 @ 3:36 pm
If a Scotsman’s involved, rest assured you will feel shortchanged…
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 3/17/2017 @ 4:19 pmEr, you do know Trump graduated from Penn with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics. He also is the author of 69 books. http://www.paperbackswap.com/Donald-J-Trump/author/
Fair is fair, but Trumpkin bullsh!t is still Trumpkin bullsh!t. Trump wrote those books the same way he cowboyed the cows that were made into Trump Steaks. In other words, in no way. Others wrote them, or dictated them, and put his name on them. Now, if you had said he had written a book about “69”, I wouldn’t even have checked. Or if he had said that he was reading “Meter Maids In Bondage” instead of “A Book About Andrew Jackson”. Who wrote that, BTW? “A Book About Andrew Jackson”.
nk (dbc370) — 3/17/2017 @ 4:24 pm@32.It’s a dead issue, OOP. So is he, RIP.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 3/17/2017 @ 4:27 pmliterature professors at places such as berkeley and middlebury are by definition “well read”
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 3/17/2017 @ 4:37 pmbut even the most ardent nevertrumpers wouldn’t want any of them to become president
at least that’s what we hope
But he may do OK even so, despite being pond scum, and that is more important.
Sure it is.
Reads like prayer.
Smells like borscht.
Tastes like… strawberries.
“I will not be made a fool of! Do you hear me?” – Captain Queeg [Humphrey Bogart] ‘The Caine Mutiny’ 1954
DCSCA (797bc0) — 3/17/2017 @ 4:45 pmThe Italian intellectuals like camillieri the mystery novelist, the late umberto eco, Alexander stille, had a cow about berlusconi
narciso (d1f714) — 3/17/2017 @ 5:11 pmYou realize that this budget, if passed, will be enjoined in every particular where some subsidy or program for some victim class is cut (and we are all part of a victim class now).
I actually think that impeaching a few judges, for using their bench to project political power, would be a good thing. Sure, you cannot convict, but the REASON you cannot convict is that the Democrats BENEFIT from these excesses. Something to bring up, over and over, in the ensuing debate.
Follow this with a reform measure, removing the power of district courts to issue a TRO to the executive and require that enjoining the Executive can only happen after a trial and judgement (aka “due process”).
Kevin M (a50e89) — 3/17/2017 @ 5:14 pmIts a brute force approach, he met with cummings and Walsh, for fwiw, but on balance I think it succeeds over the long-term.
narciso (d1f714) — 3/17/2017 @ 5:16 pmAnyone who trusts Trump on anything = chump sucka.
Patterico (115b1f) — 3/17/2017 @ 5:21 pmThat seems exceedingly unlikely. In this world, not impossible — but exceedingly unlikely.
If something that outrageous happened, that would be when we reach for the pitchforks.
Patterico (115b1f) — 3/17/2017 @ 5:23 pmFew are better read than the stiff-collared intellectuals of the right. The “monocle and martini” set at the National Review, for example, out for their next scintillating lecture.
Yet no sensible American would allow any of them to command more than a Bookmobile.
Trump has done more to start reversing the last 16 years than all the self-absorbed, “well read” Never Trumpers.
If the petulant Never Trumpers had secured their desired result on November 8, they would even now be urging us to send more donations to the NR to discuss the “Chevron Doctrine, as we watched the GOP senate’s intention to “honorably confirm” the “moderate” Tim Kaine as a justice.
The “wingback chair warriors” of the right have their place. But like all palace courtiers, its not of much use when the palace is run by someone else.
Harcourt Fenton Mudd (5e0a82) — 3/17/2017 @ 5:26 pmThe last book I read was two weeks ago. “Pistoleer”, a fictional biography of John Wesley Hardin. I did learn something. It took 20 governors for Texas to get one who was born in Texas. James Stephen Hogg. The 19 before him were “carpetbaggers”, “immigrants” or “settlers”, depending on your mood. That would include Austin and Houston. The other thing he’s notable for, and I’m not kidding, is that he named his daughter Ima.
I’d put the book on a par with Larry McMurty’s stuff (the movies were much better), and way below anything by Elmer Kelton.
nk (dbc370) — 3/17/2017 @ 5:32 pmA friend recomended Ian mortimer’s millennium, a survey of the critical periods of History.
narciso (d1f714) — 3/17/2017 @ 5:38 pmFollow this with a reform measure, removing the power of district courts to issue a TRO to the executive and require that enjoining the Executive can only happen after a trial and judgement (aka “due process”).
+1 Totally doable by statute, and tons of precedent for it in other areas from the First Amendment to labor disputes to taxes, in both state and federal courts.
nk (dbc370) — 3/17/2017 @ 5:46 pm“chump sucka”
Ah, yes. The first redoubt of the conservative. Call names.
With all the self importance of Al Sharpton yelling “racist!”.
Leon (168f33) — 3/17/2017 @ 6:47 pmOf course, we should parse out every sentence and take it completely literally. Thus, he’s never actually read a book. Brilliant analysis. I’m so glad that you offer this type of intellectual and analytical brilliance to the masses. I mean obviously the guy is sub-moronic, right? I mean according to you, Mr. P, he’s more of a lying dimwit than Obama ever was. So, good to have this to guide us. I’m quite sure he knows more about business than you ever might, but he’s an idiot. Because….you say so. But all his gains, ill gotten, I’m sure.
Thing is, he managed to become President. I mean, you’re a blogger, I’m sure that’s quite important. And I used to really respect your analysis, but let’s face it, when it comes to Trump, your base emotional passions unman you. You’re like a less manly version of Maddow.
You don’t have to like the guy to retain your intellectual honesty. If he is pond scum, report it straight and afford your readers the respect that they deserve: they can figure it out for themselves. But the more you become unhinged, the less relevant your commentary. Jesus Christ.
Estarcarus (7ffbf2) — 3/17/2017 @ 6:48 pm“I don’t get to read very much, Tucker,…”
Which means our guy turned a nothing boilerplate question from an interview put in the can four days ago, into a full penetration parry dodge thrust at Obama’s political activists disguised as jurists, totally bypassing the media gatekeepers on the left and the right.
The President is playing three person three dimensional chess while dull witted pundits are trying grab the rudiments of checkers.
Tadoocha.
papertiger (c8116c) — 3/17/2017 @ 6:58 pmWe are living in the age of the übermensch.
papertiger (c8116c) — 3/17/2017 @ 7:00 pmThe left has as far back as I can recall, ridiculed center right candidates going back as far as Coolidge from useful idiot Dorothy thompson.
narciso (c9ca8c) — 3/17/2017 @ 7:02 pmWith Obama it seemed he was never responsible for anything be provoked crisis in the home front and ignored those abroad.
narciso (c9ca8c) — 3/17/2017 @ 7:06 pmbarack did a lot of reading
everytime there was a scandal in his administration, he claimed to have just read about it in the morning paper like the rest of the folks
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 3/17/2017 @ 7:25 pmBut events abroad were always man caused disasters provoked by line wolves.
narciso (c9ca8c) — 3/17/2017 @ 7:29 pmYes they have, narciso and I say have at it. But what they are doing to Trump has never been done before and that is not ridicule it is total war. Not only has Trump not gotten a “honeymoon period” he hasn’t been allowed a pee break. They even bitch and moan about him liking his steak well done and using ketchup. Ketchup! The all-American condiment is now the “deplorable condiment”.
This and those who agree with her compose the cacophony of anti Trump constituents.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eirpfv7cxIM/WMVf7fgBedI/AAAAAAABigs/1rNptF5uuJY/tolerant%252520liberal_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800
Rev. Hoagie® (785e38) — 3/17/2017 @ 7:33 pmWe are living in the age of the ubermund.
nk (dbc370) — 3/17/2017 @ 7:37 pmShe is charming isn’t she?
narciso (c9ca8c) — 3/17/2017 @ 7:37 pm#60, p&p, Dingle is a small town on the Dingle peninsula, the westernmost point of mainland Ireland and a recognized center of traditional Irish language and culture.
Dingle also indicates a steep forested valley, as in the poetry of Dylan Thomas: the night over the Dingle starry…
ropelight (b80f14) — 3/17/2017 @ 7:45 pmNot only has Trump not gotten a “honeymoon period” he hasn’t been allowed a pee break.
If being President was easy, we’d let a girl do it.
When was Trump anything but combative? To whom did he give quarter? He asked for fights. He promised fights. People voted for him because they said he fights. Well, he’s getting fights.
nk (dbc370) — 3/17/2017 @ 7:46 pmHe could read comic books only and he’ll still be a better president than Barack T Firefly.
Harkin (8d55f0) — 3/17/2017 @ 7:48 pmBut I agree with you about the media. They’re total DNC tools. That story about the steak — the idiot who wrote it didn’t know the difference between a gourmet and a gourmand. Really. And you don’t want to see the crap WaPo wrote about both Trump and Ryan in relation to the St. Pat’s celebration today.
nk (dbc370) — 3/17/2017 @ 7:51 pmWell being a civil Republican doesn’t work ask w or Bush sr.
narciso (c9ca8c) — 3/17/2017 @ 7:55 pmI’m sorry your feelings were hurt
Davethulhu (18ab69) — 3/17/2017 @ 7:59 pmIt’s easy took down your nose at Trump for using ketchup on his steaks, while putting the same condiment on your hamburger along with a slice of cheese, some dill pickles, secret sauce, and lettuce and tomato, all on a seeded bun.
So which one is the barbarian?
ropelight (b80f14) — 3/17/2017 @ 8:07 pmMore conservative policy making than any POTUS since Hoover but the navel gazers mock his reading habits.
These Never Trumpers are the ” rather be right than rich crowd” yet laughingly they are neither.
Don’t need to like the Cat to appreciate the progress. U chump suckas…
Blah (44eaa0) — 3/17/2017 @ 8:07 pmWho is the Chump Sucka?
The virgin dude waiting for the perfect girl and staying one?
Or the dude who dates the best one he can get until he can upgrade?
My money on the former.
Blah (44eaa0) — 3/17/2017 @ 8:10 pmThe Afghan ambassador fwiw, thought trump asked some good questions.
narciso (c9ca8c) — 3/17/2017 @ 8:11 pmDid you know that Islam leads the world in microcephalopathy [YouTube – not for the weak in constitution]?
papertiger (c8116c) — 3/17/2017 @ 8:12 pmThat picture of the tolerant liberal woman reminded me.
papertiger (c8116c) — 3/17/2017 @ 8:13 pm@95. Kitty-kat, there is no duplicate key to the wardroom icebox.
The mess boys at the strawberries.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 3/17/2017 @ 8:15 pm*ate* typo.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 3/17/2017 @ 8:16 pmThat’s because Islam does not practice abortion, infanticide or euthanasia of the disabled, papertiger. You can look it up or ask Steve57.
nk (dbc370) — 3/17/2017 @ 8:24 pmI think it probably has more to do with a tradition of humping their sisters. YMMV.
papertiger (c8116c) — 3/17/2017 @ 8:29 pmAnd in the netherland they’ve almost eliminated down syndrome, your point?
narciso (c9ca8c) — 3/17/2017 @ 8:41 pm#96 Blah,
You hit the nail on the head.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 3/17/2017 @ 8:54 pmMany of our nevertrumper friends seek perfection rather than the best available option.
I heard he tried listening to the audio version of Green Eggs and Ham, but gave up because the audience was too narrow
steveg (5508fb) — 3/17/2017 @ 8:54 pmGroeningen protocol.
I’ll grant you that this election has made me question my views against abortion, euthanasia and eugenics.
nk (dbc370) — 3/17/2017 @ 8:57 pmI think it probably has more to do with a tradition of humping their sisters. YMMV.
It does. It’s Trumpkins who “keep it in the family”.
nk (dbc370) — 3/17/2017 @ 9:00 pmTrumps too.
nk (dbc370) — 3/17/2017 @ 9:01 pmGood reading: http://greekamericangirl.com/tales-of-greed-murder-and-incest-the-underbelly-of-the-greek-family/
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 3/17/2017 @ 9:13 pmHit too close to home for you fellas?
lol.
How can you look at this guy and not think inbred?
papertiger (c8116c) — 3/17/2017 @ 9:14 pm85… a case of extreme constipation, Hoagie. It’s a common malady among lefties.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 3/17/2017 @ 9:33 pm@109- yeah nk, what Trump said is classier than what you said. Might want to let that sink in.
Leon (168f33) — 3/17/2017 @ 9:44 pmKinda sounds like I have to like the guy to please you.
I said in the post I like his policies so far, for the most part. Him, Not so much.
If that makes you so sad you can’t enjoy reading this blog any more, better to recognize it ow. He’s going to be President a lot longer and I. Will. Never. Like. Him. As. A. Person.
But if you really mean this: “You don’t have to like the guy to retain your intellectual honesty”
Then hang around and enjoy the intellectual honesty.
But stop bitching when I point out his personal shortcomings, which are legion, because he is immoral, ignorant, and fifty other disparaging adjectives — as a person. He just is. It’s really inarguable.
Patterico (0aa613) — 3/17/2017 @ 9:48 pmmr donald read the tea leaves and determined that he could win the election by appealing to the forgotten working class folks in PA, OH, MI, WI, and IA.
he won
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 3/17/2017 @ 9:54 pm“But stop bitching when I point out his personal shortcomings, which are legion, because he is immoral, ignorant, and fifty other disparaging adjectives — as a person. He just is. It’s really inarguable.”
Easy for you to say. I mean, Jesus looks to you as a moral guide.
Well, except for the whole never granting grace and forget the concept of redemption thing. The Christ might have a slight edge on you there.
Leon (168f33) — 3/17/2017 @ 10:10 pmIf only he were as aware as Obama, who thought Austrians spoke Austrian and Hawaii was part of Asia.
Navy corpseman!!
Harkin (8d55f0) — 3/17/2017 @ 10:17 pmthe harvard law grad thinks there are 57 states
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 3/17/2017 @ 10:32 pmTwo Corinthians
Davethulhu (18ab69) — 3/17/2017 @ 11:19 pmWalk into a bar, I guess.
Davethulhu (18ab69) — 3/17/2017 @ 11:19 pm@88 ropelight
Interesting. I guess that makes that old congressman from Michigan John “hollow” Irishman.
Pinandpuller (cbe92f) — 3/17/2017 @ 11:54 pm@115 Cruz Supporter
They tried to stop him. He persisted.
Pinandpuller (cbe92f) — 3/17/2017 @ 11:55 pmDavethulhu
Elizabeth Warren thought it was “One little, two little, three little Corinthians.”
Pinandpuller (cbe92f) — 3/17/2017 @ 11:58 pmThe people fighting Trump are lawyers or wannabe lawyers, who can’t handle having their buttocks handed to them, so they join forces with Pelosi, obama, juanny mac and all the left wing judges. Stay off my lawn.
mg (31009b) — 3/18/2017 @ 4:06 amI though Minnesota except for eklison, franken keillor and gov target were nice guys.
narciso (d1f714) — 3/18/2017 @ 6:41 amThat’s on my Kindle, but I haven’t read it yet. How is it?
NJRob (43d957) — 3/18/2017 @ 7:48 amI am of two minds on Trump:
1) He really is as stupid/careless/unreflective as he seems.
2) He is trolling his opponents mercilessly, getting them to spend all their thought on the trolling, and not on the governing, while at the same time tossing red meat to his supporters.
I find that most Democrats I talk to are FAR more animated about his latest outrageous tweet than they are about his appointments, or the legislation moving through the system.
So, savant, or idiot savant?
Kevin M (25bbee) — 3/18/2017 @ 7:56 amCryptonomicon is effing excellent. I’ve read it twice and I will, no doubt, read it again.
It’s about two generations (WW2 and GenX) of really smart dudes, and codes and what they hide. It’s also a treasure hunt. It’s also a lot of fun.
I also like his REAMDE, a contemporary thriller. Zula is kidnapped and that’s the least of her problems. Also, a world-wide effort to Save Zula. Also Zula doesn’t need all that much saving. Lots along the way, from MMORPG to Russian mobsters to Christian survivalists as the good guys.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 3/18/2017 @ 8:04 amCould be, but that would means he’s satisfied with the attention and adulation he’s getting from the red meat and does not mind not getting credit for the substantial stuff. Is his character that complex?
They tell a story about a lawyer like that back when they had “professional juries” — the same jurors hearing case after case. One juror, talking about a lawyer, said that he didn’t think the lawyer was all that good. When asked, then why had the jury voted for acquittal in every one of his cases, the juror said, “It was not because he’s a good lawyer, it was because his clients were all innocent”.
nk (dbc370) — 3/18/2017 @ 8:08 amWell Pinandpuller, this kinda says it all about Elizabeth Warren.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7665KMUEFdg/VPuRxiJlhJI/AAAAAAAA1BE/Rk1DXVExIjw/s1600/1%2B1%2BElizabethWarrenCartoon.jpg
Rev. Hoagie® (785e38) — 3/18/2017 @ 8:10 amWarren… meh… Big Chief Talking Bull.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 3/18/2017 @ 8:12 amRead ReaDmE. Wasn’t impressed. I’ve read Snow Crash and Anathem. Enjoyed Snow Crash and I’m probably due for a reread. Partly through Seveneves.
I’ve heard good things about Cryptonomicon which is why I asked. Looks like I’ll read it on my vacation in a week.
NJRob (43d957) — 3/18/2017 @ 8:16 amReamde (sic) is commercial fiction, and succeeds as that. Most of the dislike I’ve heard about it comes from expectations that it was something else.
Yes, Snow Crash. A character like YT comes along only so often.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 3/18/2017 @ 8:20 amAgreed. That was partly my issue with it as well. Just didn’t feel like a Stephenson book. But he wrote it so it obviously counts.
Are we ever going to get a Snow Crash film? That’s the question. We have the technology now to do the book justice.
NJRob (43d957) — 3/18/2017 @ 8:31 amRev Hoagie
Love it lol. You know, rodents burrow in warrens. Probably nice and dry.
Pinandpuller (aeb9b4) — 3/18/2017 @ 9:37 amSo speaking of she who must be persisted, was John McCain’s sick disparagement of Rand Paul cool because it was off the Senate floor?
Pinandpuller (aeb9b4) — 3/18/2017 @ 9:43 amI see Warren as an open faced waitress sandwich sort of gal.
Pinandpuller (aeb9b4) — 3/18/2017 @ 9:54 amHis baroque cycle, that features the ancestors of the character in cryptonomicon, in the 17th century was also pretty good.
narciso (d1f714) — 3/18/2017 @ 10:02 amAnother one I’ve recommended to a friends book club is in search of klingsor its a scientific historical novel but the German nuclear program, featuring heisenberg, the mercurial physicist.
narciso (d1f714) — 3/18/2017 @ 10:08 amOur esteemed host would lose his money:
Mr Trump went to high school at New York Military Academy, a very strict boarding school, and then matriculated at Fordham, followed by a transfer to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. You are not graduated from these schools if you’ve never read a book.
The realistic Dana (1b79fa) — 3/18/2017 @ 10:10 amThe author forge volpi, is a citizen of Mexico, another the curious history of costaguana, is a picaresque tale of the fellow who apparently is the zelig of Panama.
narciso (d1f714) — 3/18/2017 @ 10:25 amOur honored host wrote:
Which raises the obvious question: what’s the point of attacking his personality or veracity or intelligence or whatever, if he’s doing a pretty good job as President? I don’t care for his personality or style, either, and didn’t vote for him, but we could have a perfectly respectably-behaving President in Hillary Clinton, who’d be presenting us with a budget that cuts Defense while spending more on liberal lunacy, upping refugees being accepted by 100,000, someone even worse than the “wise Latina” being nominated to the Supreme Court, and regulations being ever-increased. The media would be calm and supportive, our allies would be happy, and we’d keep circling the drain of our own downfall just ever-so-slowly.
Donald Trump is a hot mess, but he’s a clear sight better than the alternative.
The inquisitive Dana (1b79fa) — 3/18/2017 @ 10:27 amTrump looked like he was in pain when doing the photo shoot with Merkel.
AZ Bob (f7a491) — 3/18/2017 @ 10:32 amYou could be. All you have to do is cheat. What, Trump is too moral to cheat?
Patterico (0aa613) — 3/18/2017 @ 10:36 amThat one is by a Colombian Juan Garcia vazquez.
narciso (d1f714) — 3/18/2017 @ 10:38 amLeon, Blah, and everyone else who falls for the line that this guy can’t read a book because he’s too busy.
He watches hours of television a day. That’s not too busy. That’s a choice.
Patterico (0aa613) — 3/18/2017 @ 10:38 amElection’s over. We can stop talking about Hillary Clinton. The argument of the post is not an argument for her.
Nothing about the fact that he is not Hillary Clinton requires us to believe he is something he is not. Like someone who likes to read. Let’s have some self-respect.
Patterico (0aa613) — 3/18/2017 @ 10:41 amUPDATE:
Patterico (115b1f) — 3/18/2017 @ 11:04 amHe used a what’s your favorite color question to move the football.
So what’s the big deal?
papertiger (c8116c) — 3/18/2017 @ 11:17 amYeah, maybe he had gas or something — he often looks like he really needs to fart badly — but it looked to me like he was trying to make a huge point of snubbing her. If I were Merkel I might have been tempted to walk out after he ignored her request for a handshake.
Patterico (115b1f) — 3/18/2017 @ 11:20 amI have this thing where when people lie I’m tempted to point it out and comment about it. I often succumb to the temptation.
Also I think presidents should be people who read books, but these days that probably makes me an “elitist.”
I said in the post that he is doing OK and that that is what is important. So there’s really no need to argue with me about this unless 1) you’re a chump sucka who thinks he really doesn’t have time to read, just watch endless TV, or 2) you’re one of those people who thinks reading doesn’t matter. Either 1 or 2 is not good, people. It’s not good.
Patterico (115b1f) — 3/18/2017 @ 11:23 amI’m fine with criticism, but Patterico’s criticism about reading just seems petty.
Dejectedhead (fe2318) — 3/18/2017 @ 11:30 amOK. Let’s have this discussion. Casually tossing off “it seems petty” is easy. Defending that comment is going to be harder. Are you prepared to defend that criticism of me? I have to get ready to go somewhere but if you’ll commit to exchanging a few comments let’s discuss it. Please let me know right away if you can.
Patterico (115b1f) — 3/18/2017 @ 12:02 pmI don’t think that’s an easy comment to defend. Either you have to argue that he really does read (BZZZT) or that reading is not important for a President (BZZZZT). All you did was throw out an insult (“petty”) so I don’t know what your actual argument is. Do you have one? If so, please make it.
Hint: “I don’t know, it just seems petty” is not an argument. If that’s all you got, save it.
Patterico (115b1f) — 3/18/2017 @ 12:14 pmTaking issue with policies or actions is understandable. Expressing personal dislike gets tedious after a while. Comments like “he often looks like he needs to fart badly” is close to dialogue pulled out of “Idiocracy”.
… just ‘batin’ here…
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 3/18/2017 @ 12:34 pmYes. It seems like you’re going out of your way to gripe about something that doesn’t have a lot of substance behind it.
Dejectedhead (fe2318) — 3/18/2017 @ 12:44 pmI mean, you’re taking the stance that the President can’t read or is a bad reader. The only reason you’ve done that is so that you can poke fun at him. It reads to me more like a Jon Oliver skit.
Dejectedhead (fe2318) — 3/18/2017 @ 12:53 pmIt’s petty because your assertion he doesn’t read is silly.
He said he’s currently reading about Jackson, but has trouble finding the time, you know, two months into his presidency. So your argument is he finds time to watch TV, so not finding time to read is a lie. This is a now a question not on reading, but on priorities for his down time. Well, maybe after spending 12 hours a day reading reports, budgets, proposals, applications, analysis’s, and a thousand other papers crossing his desk he needs a break.
Also, people have different reading habits. For myself, I usually read in jags. I’ll read 20 books in 3 months, then get burned out and/or busy and won’t crack a book for another 3 months.
Point is, your bias against the man, with nothing really substantial to complain about, has caused you to make a series of petty assertions like “the man has never read a book in his life” based on a flip answer to a vapid question. You don’t see it; your bitterness over being so wrong for so long about the guy coloring your perceptions, but this is a petty post and others do see it. In think one day you will see it too.
Leon (168f33) — 3/18/2017 @ 12:53 pmHis baroque cycle, that features the ancestors of the character in cryptonomicon, in the 17th century was also pretty good.
If you can get past the first 100 pages, which concerns the incredibly tedious long-distant travels of the time. I know about 5 people who stopped about there. But once Waterhouse gets to England it picks right up.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 3/18/2017 @ 1:04 pmYes but cryptonomicon had a bit of a slow start, setting up Waterhouse in the current ones.
narciso (d1f714) — 3/18/2017 @ 1:11 pmI don’t criticize him for not reading books — this is an age where not everyone does. What I find disturbing though is his lack of reflection, curiosity, skepticism and self-awareness (not the same as self-centeredness). Some of these correlate with reading, but not all.
But there seems to be two Trumps: Tweeting Trump and Policymaker Trump. The two should talk.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 3/18/2017 @ 1:12 pmCryptonomicon’s Hindenberg sequence was a bit off-putting, but not like Waterhouse becalmed.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 3/18/2017 @ 1:13 pmIt seems to me that Trump is causing his opposition to burn out, the tweets are part of that. He stirs the pot with them, then half of them turn out to be legitimate. He’s turning the entire news cycle on a single tweet. The wiretapping one is a perfect example. Everyone jumps on him for not providing enough evidence (in a tweet), then all the networks start talking about how he’s accused this…while they’re all trying to spin the Vault 7 wikileaks into a Russian conspiracy. The news agencies will even contradict what they’ve previously reported when they’re tripping over themselves to say he’s wrong.
It exposes everyone’s biases.
Then it opens up discussion to the United States surveillance state, which has clearly been going after his administration since day 1.
Dejectedhead (fe2318) — 3/18/2017 @ 1:22 pmCharlemagne (MHREGA) was illiterate most of his life. He had guys read to him at dinner.
It may be premature to make comparisons but not everbody’s gonna be Marcus Aurelius.
Pinandpuller (aeb9b4) — 3/18/2017 @ 1:26 pmWell that’s to far afield, the berlusconi parallel is mire apt
narciso (d1f714) — 3/18/2017 @ 1:34 pmhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3535924/posts
I borried The Book of Five Rings from Mr Joe down to the Tastee Freeze. I understood a great deal of it.
If Musashi woulda had Twitter he might not ‘a kilt all them fellers with his Katana blade. Some folks call it a Samurai sword but I call it a Katana blade mmmmhmmmmm.
Pinandpuller (aeb9b4) — 3/18/2017 @ 2:23 pmOur distinguished host wrote:
Fair enough, except that you don’t know that his comment about reading books was a lie. You have assumed that he does not, to the point that you made the unequivocal, declarative statement, “The man’s never read a book in his life.” All he has to have done is have read one book — and even How the Grinch Stole Christmas would do — and your statement is false.
You have stated a negative, something you do not know and cannot prove.
Actually, a book about President Jackson would be a good one for him to read; Old Hickory has one unique accomplishment, being the only President to have ever paid off the national debt, something he did in 1836.
The Dana who spotted the flaw in the argument (1b79fa) — 3/18/2017 @ 3:21 pmThere goes Dana taking me literally and not seriously!
Patterico (52aafa) — 3/18/2017 @ 3:23 pmThey refuse to take Trump seriously but insist we take Trump literally.
Rev. Hoagie® (785e38) — 3/18/2017 @ 3:44 pmIf anyone ever says they disagree with me from now on I’ll just say you can’t take me literally.
He doesn’t get to be the one guy in the world who just says whatever he wants and can’t be criticizedz I get that deal too. And if you’re don’t like it, I didn’t say it.
Not literally, anyway.
Patterico (52aafa) — 3/18/2017 @ 4:03 pmSome reporter made up a pretty-sounding slogan — “Take Trump seriously not literally”. I find it meaningless and, worse, useless and refuse to take it either literally or seriously.
nk (dbc370) — 3/18/2017 @ 4:12 pmThe slogan.
nk (dbc370) — 3/18/2017 @ 4:12 pmOk. Trump, too.
nk (dbc370) — 3/18/2017 @ 4:13 pmR.I.P. Chuck Berry. 90.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 3/18/2017 @ 4:14 pm“If anyone ever says they disagree with me from now on I’ll just say you can’t take me literally.”
Yeah, that horse fled the barn when you said “The man’s never read a book in his life. I’d put money on it.”
Kinda too late to shore up your double standards now.
Leon (168f33) — 3/18/2017 @ 4:40 pmi think Mr. Trump’s read the perfect number of books my gosh he’s not only a billionaire and Melania’s husband he’s also even the president
that’s an impressive accomplishment i think
happyfeet (28a91b) — 3/18/2017 @ 4:51 pmI told my son, “There are two words I don’t want you to use. One is kinky and the other one is raunchy.”
“OK dad, what are the words?
Pinandpuller (774615) — 3/18/2017 @ 4:53 pmI know I’ve focused heavily on Latin American authors, best read in translation, Garcia vazquez’s later work like reputations have not been as good.
narciso (d1f714) — 3/18/2017 @ 4:55 pmspeaking of low-class trash check out the bread bags bimbo from iowa
ugh
nasty woman
happyfeet (28a91b) — 3/18/2017 @ 5:12 pmWe already don’t take you literally, Pat.
Notice how 180 comments in nobody has put up any money on your preposterous bet.
Never read a book in his life was the bet. How much money? Name your figure.
Taking you literally now. Could use the money. Those damn vitamins aren’t doing [edit] for me.
papertiger (c8116c) — 3/18/2017 @ 5:36 pmWhatchu talking about Willis, I put up 10k?
https://patterico.com/2017/03/17/trump-i-love-to-read/#comment-1985215
Leon (168f33) — 3/18/2017 @ 5:50 pmThose damn vitamins aren’t doing [edit] for me.
Likely absorption problems in the digestive tract. Common in old people. See your doctor for injections.
nk (dbc370) — 3/18/2017 @ 5:55 pmI think maybe he’s talking about the foolic acid. I don’t know exactly what the problem is. It might be too far gone. It sometimes can a lot to do something about the pain. I’m talking abouut the 800 mcg size pills, 4 a day. Could even be more to start. You also need protein, and sleep (it on;t gets better after an interval of sleeping) and maybe fresh pineapple.
Sammy Finkelman (3ea6b3) — 3/18/2017 @ 6:11 pmThere’s an ode study out of Denmark regarding ibuprofen usage, it says it increased heart attacks 31%, however they said the best is naproxen, with 5900 mg day and the one in advil at 1200 mg day.
narciso (d1f714) — 3/18/2017 @ 6:17 pmLeon. Pat proposed the bet. He sets the stakes. That’s the way it works.
Besides that $10K is outrageous. And greedy. What are we, Paul Newman?
papertiger (c8116c) — 3/18/2017 @ 6:19 pmTHe Entertainer [YouTube].
papertiger (c8116c) — 3/18/2017 @ 6:23 pmI BET ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!!!!!!!!
Patterico (90b76a) — 3/18/2017 @ 6:25 pmY’all Trumpers have to explain how you would prove this proposition.
Also what form of proof I could provide to you that you would accept.
Trumpers don’t believe anything no matter how clearly proven.
Patterico (90b76a) — 3/18/2017 @ 6:27 pmHere’s a picture from when I pledged my support for President Trump way back when.
Donald and the eagle.
What’s that on his desk? Over in the corner with a blue cover. Hardback.
You owe me a million, counselor.
papertiger (c8116c) — 3/18/2017 @ 6:33 pmThat seems exceedingly unlikely. In this world, not impossible — but exceedingly unlikely.
If something that outrageous happened, that would be when we reach for the pitchforks.
Hmmm. I think I’ll bookmark my comment.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 3/18/2017 @ 6:34 pmA historical tidbit about Chuck Berry as his music is destined for immortality.
In 1977 when America launched the two Voyager space probes on their trek to sweep past the planets in our solar system then journey on to the stars, NASA attached a ‘golden record’ to the side of both probes. The idea, more or less a PR nod to embrace the common man, was championed by the late Carl Sagan, who chronicled the contents in a book titled, ‘Murmurs Of Earth.’ And among the recordings that ‘made the cut’ for the long ride with Bach, Mozart, Stravinsky and Louis Armstrong is ‘Johnny B. Goode’ by Chuck Berry.
And the joke Around NASA/JPL at the time– later inked by cartoonists– was the first return message from aliens on another world would likely be: “SEND MORE CHUCK BERRY.”
DCSCA (797bc0) — 3/18/2017 @ 6:34 pmI bet he doesn’t read a lot. Double or nothing.
papertiger (c8116c) — 3/18/2017 @ 6:38 pm179, that’s why we dont have midwestern-from-childhood-to-oath-of-office presidents. Hoover and Reagan had to go west young man. Ford acceded there unconventionally, so thats that.
urbanleftbehind (847a06) — 3/18/2017 @ 6:48 pmThings I learned today courtesy of Trumpers: having a book on your desk means you read it.
Patterico (90b76a) — 3/18/2017 @ 6:53 pmTrumpis said to have news articles from the Internet selected by hus staff and printed out for his perusal.
Sammy Finkelman (3ea6b3) — 3/18/2017 @ 6:58 pmYou never stipulated it had to be cover to cover.
papertiger (c8116c) — 3/18/2017 @ 7:11 pmIf you take all of Trump’s tweets, print them out, stack them up, bind them together…boom, you have a book.
Trump read all of those tweets as he wrote them.
Trump read a book.
I’m 1 million dollars richer.
Dejectedhead (fe2318) — 3/18/2017 @ 7:12 pmFollow this, the times says her stories about info derived by intercepts were wrong, yet they cited her Russian claims based on the same sources:
https://mobile.twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/842963925851430912/photo/1
narciso (d1f714) — 3/18/2017 @ 7:15 pm197. There are 34,624 Tweets so far.
140 characters would be an average of, maybe what, 20 words? An average book contains what – 100,000 words, maybe a little less? 34,624 x 20 = 692,480. You’ve got maybe 7 to 10 books there, and that’s without adding any additional commentary.
Sammy Finkelman (3ea6b3) — 3/18/2017 @ 7:25 pmhe’s a very prolific writer, our President
happyfeet (28a91b) — 3/18/2017 @ 7:31 pmExperts, all very well read I’m sure.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/260124/
Leon (168f33) — 3/18/2017 @ 7:36 pmMunny: Sure you ain’t armed?
Beuachamp: I’m not. I don’t have a gun. I’ve never had a gun. I write. I’m a writer!
Munny: A writer? Letters and such?
Unforgiven (1992)
nk (dbc370) — 3/18/2017 @ 7:44 pmWell it was stiglitz and krugman who did the first, there are many fathers to the latter. Most recently samantha power, re Libya and Egypt. The others are even murkier.
narciso (d1f714) — 3/18/2017 @ 7:46 pmThe honest quote from Leon’s link:
“Americans reject the advice of experts to insulate their fragile egos from ever being told they’re wrong.”
Read the real thing: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2017-02-13/how-america-lost-faith-expertise
nk (dbc370) — 3/18/2017 @ 7:53 pmHere, I read it for you:
nk (dbc370) — 3/18/2017 @ 7:57 pmIgnorance is not merely bliss. It’s how Trump became President.
nk (dbc370) — 3/18/2017 @ 7:58 pmnk, you missed the first line from my link:
“CONSIDERING THE SOURCE, THIS SOUNDS LIKE PROJECTION TO ME”
Or maybe you consider Glenn Reynolds to be an ignoramus?
Leon (168f33) — 3/18/2017 @ 8:13 pmjust having a desk all by itself means you’re pretty smart to where you have an air condition job
happyfeet (28a91b) — 3/18/2017 @ 8:18 pmi have TWO desks
happyfeet (28a91b) — 3/18/2017 @ 8:19 pmMr. Trump also has multiple desks by the way I’m not trying to be fancy
happyfeet (28a91b) — 3/18/2017 @ 8:21 pmI don’t think he’s an expert on everything he links. Or even everything he writes, such as the law of self-defense as it relates to people in automobiles whose way is blocked by demonstrators.
nk (dbc370) — 3/18/2017 @ 8:22 pmMr. Instapundit knows all about space and horny public school teachers and the ins and outs of law school and heart disease and longevity plus he used to be a music producer
he’s really kind of a renny sauce man really
happyfeet (28a91b) — 3/18/2017 @ 8:24 pmThe author Tom Nichols is xo of the never trump train.
narciso (60c2d3) — 3/18/2017 @ 8:25 pmIndoor work, no heavy lifting — yeah, that’s a nice job if you can get it.
nk (dbc370) — 3/18/2017 @ 8:26 pmConsider the people who really think the cha derived from the crowdstrike is proof of anything.
narciso (60c2d3) — 3/18/2017 @ 8:27 pmbarack likes to read
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 3/18/2017 @ 8:28 pmi bet he read alinsky’s rules for radicals a dozen times
Now Evan mcmullin is the captain Smith of this tale.
narciso (60c2d3) — 3/18/2017 @ 8:29 pmIf it come down to ignorance vs. arrogance, I know which side I’m on.
Andrew McCarthy has yet another great piece over at National Review online.
ThOR (c9324e) — 3/18/2017 @ 8:52 pmFrom William Jacobson over at Legal Insurrection:
“In recent comments after the latest round of TROs halting the second executive order, Trump expressed regret that he had abandoned the first executive order. He said his gut told him to fight it, but he was advised that the better course was to rework it. He should have gone with his gut.”
Why is it when the “ignorant” Trump has better judgment than his high powered lawyers, it comes as no surprise? Bet them lawyers have read plenty of books.
ThOR (c9324e) — 3/18/2017 @ 9:00 pmThis is why el sheikh, part of the North American Iman federation behind the flying imams was against it. Shahin being the leader.
narciso (60c2d3) — 3/18/2017 @ 9:06 pmthe islams don’t even know what happens when you mix bacon jam with a lil ghost pepper jelly
this is cause they ignant
happyfeet (28a91b) — 3/18/2017 @ 9:07 pmeveryone knows there’s no such thing as a magic carpet ride
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 3/18/2017 @ 9:10 pmwell, everyone knows it except for …
it gets late so fast now i hate dst
happyfeet (28a91b) — 3/18/2017 @ 9:11 pmnk Don’t care how you spin it. Gistemp reporting that Feb 2017 was the warmest month ever based on piping hot extrapolations of the Arctic ocean in mid winter {perpetual night, sun hasn’t reared it’s ugly head since Dec 23rd} is utter bull sh][, perpetrated by professional liars who have wormed their way into termination proof civil service positions.
The second amendment was written specifically to deal with those type sobs. That’s what it’s for.
papertiger (c8116c) — 3/18/2017 @ 9:12 pmIt’s all part of the superstitious awe of literacy. It’s worshiped, feared and hated by the illiterate, all three at the same time. Only the literate understand it for what it is.
nk (dbc370) — 3/18/2017 @ 9:19 pmi sacrificed a goat to the literacy
look at me now with my air condition job
happyfeet (28a91b) — 3/18/2017 @ 9:30 pmallah is greatest
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 3/18/2017 @ 9:32 pmand if you disagree, then we’ll have to throw you in jail
allah’s the effing bomb
happyfeet (28a91b) — 3/18/2017 @ 9:33 pmnk (dbc370) — 3/18/2017 @ 7:57 pm
That would make sense. If Ukraine is loccated in SOuth America or australia, its’s much more importantt to resist Russian encroachments there
So about half realized there is no such place or were not afraid to confess ignorance.
So 55% of Democrats answered yes or no, but on;y about 43% of Republicans did.
Sammy Finkelman (3ea6b3) — 3/18/2017 @ 9:34 pmActually it was the second warmest February. Good thing you didn’t shoot someone based on a misunderstanding.
https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/news/20170315/
Davethulhu (2c9e7e) — 3/18/2017 @ 9:37 pmIt was an anagram except there is no r, just like when McCarry wrote better angels in 1979, he couldn’t name saudi Arabia as the sponsor of the proto al queda so he called it hagreb.
narciso (60c2d3) — 3/18/2017 @ 9:38 pm225- can the illiterate understand if they get the audio book?
Leon (168f33) — 3/18/2017 @ 9:41 pmI’m serious. You guys might wish to consider the literal meanings of Bible and Scripture. And why The Koran has power.
nk (dbc370) — 3/18/2017 @ 9:45 pmIt’s as if one was to say you want to invade corto Maltese it’s some island in Latin America, mentioned in the first Batman film in 1990 and the arrow series invented by Frank miller.
narciso (60c2d3) — 3/18/2017 @ 9:46 pmAnd why literal means what it means.
nk (dbc370) — 3/18/2017 @ 9:46 pmNah. I still think they need killing. But the traditional method for dealing with witches is burning at the stake.
Don’t literally need to shoot them.
papertiger (c8116c) — 3/18/2017 @ 9:47 pmOne is reminded in cryptonicon set in 1999, there s a European academic who is putting forth the white privilege which warehouse won’t entertain and it’s ironicvin light of his origins back in the 40s
narciso (60c2d3) — 3/18/2017 @ 9:53 pmI regret to inform you this post, this subject has become a circle jerk. Abandon circle!!!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 3/18/2017 @ 9:53 pmRead this article and tell me it is not vapid:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/books/president-obamas-reading-list.html?_r=0
SPQR (a3a747) — 3/18/2017 @ 9:56 pmi dunno about food stamp but Malia’s def not the reader in that fam
happyfeet (28a91b) — 3/18/2017 @ 10:00 pmhey Malia i got your hundred years of solitude right here
happyfeet (28a91b) — 3/18/2017 @ 10:01 pmI prefer talking about books. On vacation I need to read at least 2. Going on a cruise. It’s R & R.
NJRob (43d957) — 3/18/2017 @ 10:02 pmReading is for people who can’t program the remote.
papertiger (c8116c) — 3/18/2017 @ 10:06 pmSo it turns out the other Russian hacker sutschkin. Worked for renaissance capital, guess which candidate they gave money to, hint its not trump.
narciso (d1f714) — 3/18/2017 @ 10:19 pmhttp://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/04/24/pictures-of-bill-clinton-giving-a-500k-speech-in-moscow
narciso (d1f714) — 3/18/2017 @ 10:22 pmSo, which would you rather; a President who doesn’t read books, or another surge in popularity for whatever tripe he DOES read. Didn’t somebody tell the public that Kennedy liked Ian Flemming and Micky Spillane? I like James Bond films, for the same reasons I like comic books, but Mike Hammer os a 15th generation xerox of Phillip Marlow, and the writing of both authors is awful.
C. S. P. Schofield (99bd37) — 3/19/2017 @ 5:13 amhttp://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/03/president_trumps_week_wiretaps_media_and_judicial_skullduggery.html
narciso (d1f714) — 3/19/2017 @ 6:40 amCongressman Nunez says the only crime he knows of is the unmasking and leaking of names (That would particularly be the fact that Michael Flynn had a telephone conversation with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak)
He said Trump had a right to fire him. But leaking that was a crime. (the point here is the thought that without that being leaked, Flynn wouldn’t have been asked about it, and therefore wouldn’t have lied to Mike Pence.)
He said, when asked, that there is no question that the leaks were done to hurt Flynn and others.
He says he doesn’t think anyone now in the Trump White House (did he say except for one?) was overheard. He doesn’t think the leakers are now still employed by the federal government. (that may be a convenient assumption!)
He says there was no FISA application on the Trump Tower.
He says the NSA, CIA and FBI should have revealed any names oof Americans whose names were unmasked by Friday but they still haven’t submitted a list of names.
He says it is good we are now all talking (both parties) about Russian meddliing (now sure of his expression) because Putin is a bad actor.
Sammy Finkelman (3ea6b3) — 3/19/2017 @ 9:01 amTo the extent #NeverTrump provided assistance in this, hey… Mission Accomplished!!!
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/324649-poll-most-young-voters-view-trump-as-illegitimate-president
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 3/19/2017 @ 9:09 amYou never stipulated it had to be cover to cover.
Oh, I’m sure he reads both covers.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 3/19/2017 @ 11:21 amThe bigger concern today is that Americans have reached a point where ignorance—at least regarding what is generally considered established knowledge in public policy—is seen as an actual virtue.
I once had terrible difficulty sending a FedEx package to Alaska. The agent I was talking to (this was a while a ago) said she couldn’t find “Alaska” in her codes. When I finally asked for more details, she said her guide didn’t have anything between Afghanistan and Albania.
I wonder what people would say these days about putting fence around New Mexico.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 3/19/2017 @ 11:28 amMike Hammer os a 15th generation xerox of Phillip Marlow, and the writing of both authors is awful.
I think Mannix is better.
The Three-body Problem takes place in Communist China, starting with the Cultural Revolution as we see the physics professors beaten to death by Red Guards for insisting on their running-dog capitalist “laws” of nature. I’m sure this gave Obama a thrill.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 3/19/2017 @ 11:34 amThis thread is gold. I’ll never forget the day people argued that Trump has read a book because he wrote a lot of tweets. Thank you.
Patterico (115b1f) — 3/19/2017 @ 11:35 amKevin,
Read 3 body problem when I was a voting member of the Hugo. Wasn’t overly impressed.
Locke (7a441f) — 3/19/2017 @ 11:52 ami bet jimmy carter read lots of books
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 3/19/2017 @ 12:38 pmbut he wasn’t a very good president
he hasn’t been a very good former president, either
Cherish those memories, Patterico. Who needs common ground, when you can have antipathy!?!?
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 3/19/2017 @ 12:56 pmCruz Supporter
I bet he can read a tape measure and a nailing schedule.
I’m like,” I need to cut two and a half and two sixteenths off this eight quarter board.”
Pinandpuller (aeb9b4) — 3/19/2017 @ 12:56 pmYou can’t have matter without antimatter or pasta without antipasta. And according to Sesame Street if there were no “U” units would be nits.
Pinandpuller (aeb9b4) — 3/19/2017 @ 12:58 pmIf “common ground” means twisting my brain into a pretzel so that I’ll accept an argument like “Trump read a book on account of lookit how many tweets he wrote!” then I’ll pass, thanks.
Patterico (115b1f) — 3/19/2017 @ 1:22 pmAt this point Trump post comment sections are just a scientific experiment into how stupid an argument partisans will advance with a straight face. I think this one takes the cake so far.
Patterico (115b1f) — 3/19/2017 @ 1:23 pmThis wins second place.
Patterico (115b1f) — 3/19/2017 @ 1:24 pmKevin M (25bbee) — 3/19/2017 @ 11:28 am
I suppose 10% to 15% would support it, mainly people living east of the Mississippi River who voted for Trump.
You could ask even more ridiculous questions.
Sammy Finkelman (3ea6b3) — 3/19/2017 @ 1:49 pmThe beatings will continue until the farcical arguments desist…
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 3/19/2017 @ 1:55 pmTrump’s hair-do is really a hair-don’t. Discuss…
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 3/19/2017 @ 1:58 pmI just read the comments on the same post over at Red State. Quite an unusual batch, seem to be from disgruntled Clinton or McMuffin voters…
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 3/19/2017 @ 2:08 pmMaybe they are just gruntled@pg wodehouse, coronello,
narciso (d1f714) — 3/19/2017 @ 2:19 pmI like those comments a lot. Thanks for encouraging me to read them.
Patterico (115b1f) — 3/19/2017 @ 2:22 pmCharles stross’s the factorybseries was good at the beginning but his last few were substandard, he has a new one empire games, which delved into the alternate reslities
narciso (d1f714) — 3/19/2017 @ 2:30 pmoh goodness ex-cia wack-job slurpy egg mcmuffin’s at the “cry for help” stage of his downward spiral
for the love of innovative and pro-active preventative care wellness programs someone please pat his head and tell him he’s relevant before he starts exploring self-harm techniques
happyfeet (28a91b) — 3/19/2017 @ 2:33 pmNo surprise there.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 3/19/2017 @ 2:42 pmI reason the synopsis of the three world problem I haven’t anything this muddled since cloud atlas (the book and the film)
narciso (d1f714) — 3/19/2017 @ 3:13 pmPatterico, don’t know why you care about the comments on Red State since they’re so heavily censored. All must comport to the vision of the site or you will be deleted and banned. Not big on free thought.
NJRob (c24a9a) — 3/19/2017 @ 3:23 pmAlso read 3 Body Problem when I was a Sad Pup. Can’t say much about it. Typical slog. Better than the Goblin Emperor and that terrible book where they called everyone a she. Not as good as Jim Butcher’s work.
NJRob (c24a9a) — 3/19/2017 @ 3:28 pmBetter than the Dark Between the Stars. Meh. Hugo nominees haven’t been anything special in ages. One should’ve gone to Correia for his new series, but… politics.
NJRob (c24a9a) — 3/19/2017 @ 3:30 pmwhat is this new correia series
happyfeet (28a91b) — 3/19/2017 @ 3:35 pm@232 Leon
I got one of those records that teaches you a language while you sleep. Last night the record skipped and all I can do is stutter in Spanish.
Steven Wright
Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 3/19/2017 @ 4:10 pmI read some of John ring’s kildar series, its ok. There was interesting time travelish work by Dexter palmer, version control.
narciso (d1f714) — 3/19/2017 @ 4:15 pm#257 Pinandpuller
but he didn’t go to law school
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 3/19/2017 @ 4:15 pmso it doesn’t count or whatever
DAE fall asleep after one page of The Kama Sutra?
Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 3/19/2017 @ 4:15 pmCruz Supporter
Carter didn’t need to measure his defeat by Reagan in [redacted] hairs.
Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 3/19/2017 @ 4:18 pmNot new anymore Happyfeet.
Son of the Black Sword is what I meant. He should be working on book two soon. At least it won the Dragon Award for it’s category.
NJRob (c24a9a) — 3/19/2017 @ 4:41 pmNow here is some creative writing… using car models as a theme…
“My Amigo and I went out one evening, forming an Alliance to see who could end up with the Conquest of getting their Jimmy handled by a Scamp. The year was Ninety-Eight, and we got off to a Rocky start. My Sidekick and I finally ran into a Cougar who told us she would be glad to provide a Hummer to me but had another Rendezvous in an hour. My partner was Swift to move along trying to be his own Trailblazer. In the Spirit of her rush, I was quick to Express my Luv like a Rabbit. I started to get a strange Vibe, and glancing down I saw her Silhouette making the Discovery that she was in fact a he. With a Dash I made my Escape, and thankfully never saw that Brougham again!”
http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2017/03/ttac-challenge-car-name-game-winners-journey-triumph-acclaim/
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 3/19/2017 @ 5:02 pmFun fact: The Kama Sutra was the world’s first Choose Your Own Adventure title.
Highlight if you must but sticky notes, just no.
Pinandpuller (aeb9b4) — 3/19/2017 @ 5:04 pmok adding it to a list
happyfeet (28a91b) — 3/19/2017 @ 5:04 pmThe last decent SciFi/Fantasy Book I read was Fred Saberhagen’s “Ardneh’s Sword” (2006).
The one Jim Butcher book I read was disgusting where it was not vapid or tedious. Can’t he send bedroom role play scenarios to the Nielsen Haydens by private email?
I tried reading Correia’s first Monster Hunter book and I got to page three and no farther. Purple prose overdose. A ten-year old can write better than that.
Don’t get me started on Glen Cook.
Basically, the current crop of fiction being published sucks.
nk (dbc370) — 3/19/2017 @ 5:13 pmPurple prose, don’t know, I would say its a little abrupt.
narciso (d1f714) — 3/19/2017 @ 5:22 pmThis might give you a hint why. From Tor’s submission guidelines:
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:
I don’t like Vox Day, but I agree with his ongoing criticism of the “SJWs” (to use the kindest term) who have become the gatekeepers of the publishing houses.
nk (dbc370) — 3/19/2017 @ 5:25 pmJudge for yourself, narciso. The link is good but it might take you to the main page. If so, click Next and then Chapter 1. http://www.baen.com/readonline/index/read/sku/1439132852
nk (dbc370) — 3/19/2017 @ 5:29 pmoh.
i removed correia’s “non-European–set epic fantasy” from my list then
happyfeet (28a91b) — 3/19/2017 @ 5:31 pmYou can get a sample chapter of most every book online these days. But some fool you.
nk (dbc370) — 3/19/2017 @ 5:33 pmHow is that purple prose, its sort of pedestrian tranxition
narciso (d1f714) — 3/19/2017 @ 5:41 pmPool Anderson’s ensign flandry, is also along similar lines to steel rat, but probably too politically incorrect. Compare the original battlestar Galactica with its nihilistic brooding sucessir.
narciso (d1f714) — 3/19/2017 @ 5:47 pmDe gustibus ….
Maybe I’ve been spoiled by the greats like Zelazny, Vance, Chandler and Hammett.
C.S.P. Schollfield at 146, totally agree with you about Spillane and Fleming.
nk (dbc370) — 3/19/2017 @ 5:53 pmI tried to read Butcher and Correia, and got easily bored.
kishnevi (57338f) — 3/19/2017 @ 5:54 pmBen Aaronovitch has a semi-decent series of novels you may like better:the jokes are more in line with your sense of humor. He’s a Brit, so the lead characters are London cops.
Thank you, kishnevi. I liked Randall Garrett’s “Lord Darcy” and Mike Resnick’s earlier alternate New York “fables”.
nk (dbc370) — 3/19/2017 @ 5:59 pm“Trump can’t read.”
-Proof that LA has finally gotten to Patterico
Dejectedhead (6f26f8) — 3/19/2017 @ 6:08 pmnk
So I’m guessing no John Ringo?
Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 3/19/2017 @ 6:21 pmYou put that in quotes as if it’s something I said. That’s dishonest of you and disappointing.
Patterico (115b1f) — 3/19/2017 @ 6:27 pmTrump can obviously read a TelePrompTer.
Not well, mind you…
“and, by the way, into titties like right here in Detroit”
Patterico (115b1f) — 3/19/2017 @ 6:30 pmSorry, I was paraphrasing for expediency.
I still think LA has gotten to you.
Dejectedhead (6f26f8) — 3/19/2017 @ 6:31 pmThat’s OK. I think Trump has gotten to people who used to be conservative.
Patterico (115b1f) — 3/19/2017 @ 6:36 pmHe’s also gotten to people that used to be liberal…though in a different way.
Dejectedhead (6f26f8) — 3/19/2017 @ 6:40 pmnk, of the urban fantasy genre, the Ben Aaronovitch “Rivers of London” series mentioned earlier is decent quality. Benedict Jacka has a series that is well written, start with “Fated”.
I also recommend a lot of Tad Williams whose “Memory, Sorrow, Thorn” series is a nice rendition of the Tolkien subgenre.
I won’t hold your opinion of Larry Correia against you, even if some of my friends are writing in his series and anthologies. 😉
SPQR (a3a747) — 3/19/2017 @ 6:46 pmFraid not, Pinandpuller. Just the covers are enough to turn me away. If a girl can do it, how much of an adventure can it be? Besides, I’ve read Fred Saberhagen, Keith Laumer, Poul Anderson, Mike Resnick, and Gordon R. Dickson — just to name a few — it’d be like going from filet mignon to Big Macs.
nk (dbc370) — 3/19/2017 @ 6:49 pmAll of the rotten stuff that is constantly slung at Donald Trump, Melania, Ivanka, Trump’s sons, Kushner… it’s hard to understand why anyone other than D-bagger lefties would join the cacophony.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 3/19/2017 @ 6:51 pmWell, regardless of the President’s recreational habits, Andrew Jackson’s stock has risen since the name drop.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/03/19/five-9th-circuit-judges-eviscerate-the-fundamental-errors-in-ruling-against-trumps-muslim-ban/
papertiger (c8116c) — 3/19/2017 @ 6:51 pmThank you, SPQR.
nk (dbc370) — 3/19/2017 @ 6:51 pmJohn ringo is a girl?
narciso (d1f714) — 3/19/2017 @ 6:57 pmYou know who was not a bad “commercial” writer, writing for the pulps in the ’30s? Pretty good, actually? L. Ron Hubbard. I’ve read a lot of his crime, war and western stories; and “Battlefield Earth” is a masterpiece, as good as anything in the genre.
nk (dbc370) — 3/19/2017 @ 6:59 pmHis character(s), narciso. 😉
nk (dbc370) — 3/19/2017 @ 7:00 pmnk, well, John Ringo can be an acquired taste … like other tastes that requre Rehab to lose.
But his “Troy Rising” series is a great example of Libertarian SF. A genre with some uneven contributions at best.
SPQR (a3a747) — 3/19/2017 @ 7:09 pmNk,
Butcher and Correia have greatly improved from their earlier works.
It’s almost like practice and hard work means something.
NJRob (c24a9a) — 3/19/2017 @ 7:19 pmCorreia writes for Baen, not Tor.
NJRob (c24a9a) — 3/19/2017 @ 7:21 pmWilliam diets who wrote the legion of ten damned books Also wrote a prequel with a femAle lead who joins the precursor if said legion, after a game of throne worthy move.
narciso (d1f714) — 3/19/2017 @ 7:30 pmadlai stevenson was an egghead
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 3/19/2017 @ 8:57 pmthank god he didn’t win the presidential election
“260. At this point Trump post comment sections are just a scientific experiment into how stupid an argument partisans will advance with a straight face. ”
You want to know what’s a stupid argument?
Somebody who could not possibly know how many (if any) books that Trump has read, claims that he has never read a book.
I mean, like, the first reaction I had was, “How could Patterico know? He doesn’t hang around in Trump’s living room, does he?” Sounds just like a random insult, I guess “Trump smells of elderberries” is too trite.
And then we have 300+ comments, about something that NONE of us could possibly know.
fred-2 (ce04f3) — 3/19/2017 @ 9:12 pmBut then again, people got bored with the stupid arguments and took the thread into a good direction.
Like John Ringo’s books.
The Kildar series was just a fun, absurd romp. Soft porn, reminded me of the Gor series. But some actual story instead of pure soft porn.
“Troy Rising” series was great. He was right, the full story fit in 3 books, the 4th was not needed. Good, finished up some story threads, but not needed. Too bad he couldn’t have pulled it into like an “Imager” series (Modesitt) or like a “Safehold” series (Weber).
fred-2 (ce04f3) — 3/19/2017 @ 9:21 pmStevenson was sort of the 50s version of Dukakis, although they ran him twice they gave him the un ambassAdor as a consolation prize.
narciso (26e876) — 3/19/2017 @ 9:21 pmYears ago I read Ben bova’ s privateer series an attempt to do space piracy of a sort, he has revisited the hero Ben Hamilton Randolph in some books in the aughts
narciso (26e876) — 3/19/2017 @ 9:24 pmnk
I grew up on pulp like Edgar Rice Burroughs and William W Johnstone so perhaps I’m more of a steak and catsup kind of guy.
I guess the Ringo covers are a bit like the opening scenes of Bond movies lol.
I recently found out about a new writer named Peter Grant. He wrote a real good western called “Brings the Lightning” about a Confederate soldier’s transition after the Civil War and travels west. Certainly worth thirteen bucks.
Pinandpuller (6f773a) — 3/20/2017 @ 1:13 am@309 nk
L Ron Hubbard holds four Guinness World Records for writing output. And the longest game of Simon Says.
Pinandpuller (6f773a) — 3/20/2017 @ 1:21 amChecked it out on Kindle, Pinandpuller. Brings The Lightning. It reminds me, very much, of George G. Gilman’s “Adam Steele” and “Edge” books.
nk (dbc370) — 3/20/2017 @ 5:33 amI’ll tell you, the first two chapters are like the beginning of a spaghetti western, and I love spaghetti westerns.
nk (dbc370) — 3/20/2017 @ 5:50 amMe: “You don’t have to like the guy to retain your intellectual honesty.”
You: “But if you really meant this: ‘You don’t have to like the guy to retain your intellectual honesty.'”
Seriously? In a post in which you claim someone may have a reading comprehension problem, you actually wrote this.
That aside, I realize now your intent: you’re basically trolling half of your readership; given your utter disdain for Trump, who I voted for grudgingly, how must you feel about those who did vote for him? I feel the love. I hope you argue in front of a jury better than you argue here. No wonder the crime rate is so high in the greater LA metropolitan area. If you are the prosecutor on a case, does the defendant even feel the need to have a lawyer.
Bet: If Simple Jack committed multiple homicides, walked into a police station with the murder weapon and covered in the victims’ blood, carrying a camera on which he recorded the whole thing, and decided to represent himself – and you were the prosecutor assigned to the case, the jury would deliberate for about 3 minutes, and Simple Jack would go skipping out of the courthouse, chasing butterflies with a hammer, a free man.
Terms: one billion dollars.
And of course Trump has read a book: he’s so vain I bet he read his own, just to find out what was in it.
Estarcarus (cd97e1) — 3/20/2017 @ 4:25 pmI forgot: Chump Sucka.
Estarcarus (cd97e1) — 3/20/2017 @ 4:27 pmHe seems to insist on pissing on your back and demanding you prove it’s not just rain with yellow food coloring
Colonel Haiku (0b9b35) — 3/20/2017 @ 4:36 pmfred-2 (ce04f3) — 3/19/2017 @ 9:12 pm
What you can know is if he gave a strong evidence of having read a particular book, like discussing it, or even declaring he had read it. You’d get that from most successful politicians. George W. Bush for instance would mention he’s reading a certain book and he got into competiton with Karl Rove and others as to how many books he could read. We could find a lot of circumstantial evodnce for many other people. But I don’t know if anyone is familiar enough with Trump to find such a thing if it’s out there. It could theer is such proof, and we just don’t know it.
I brought out that he definitely reads tweets. But a tweet, even 3,000 tweets, is not a book, of course.
It is, of course, highly unlikely that Donald Trump never read a book since, say, college, because there could have been all kinds of circumstances that could have gotten him to read a book, or half a book at least.
It is true that he gives some signs of not reading books, like what Patterico pointed out about him talking about being interrupted after he reads half a page, or his reportedly not knowing many years ago that the Hitxxx book someone gave him some time before was a book of Hxxxer’s speeches and not Mein Kamph. He never looked inside it long enough to realize what it was. Maybe it’s agood point that he really wasn’t interested in reading it.
Sammy Finkelman (3ea6b3) — 3/20/2017 @ 5:36 pmI am too reading a book about Andrew Jackson, no matter what Patterico says. I’m at the part where Lincoln picks him to be his Vice President. I can’t wait to find out how he became President.
Donald J. Trump at the real nk (dbc370) — 3/20/2017 @ 5:40 pmnk: That was Andrew Johnson – but that’s the joke. Some people might not realize that there’s actual possible confusion here.
I found proof that George W. Bush read a book: (you can find the same thing stated in other places on the Internet)
http://time.com/4688206/george-w-bush-painting-book/
Now you can say, well, maybe he didn’t actually READ the Churchill book.
But there is also:
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/university-park/2017/02/27/painting-veterans-george-w-bushs-way-give-back-just-honored-commander-chief
It’s said that he’s actually become quite a good painter. Better than Grandma Moses maybe?
What I’d really like to see is not – portraits of people – You can take photographs like that – but realistic looking full color, political cartoons.
DRJ said on the Jury thread that Donald Trump said that is favorite book is All Quiet on the Western Front and it might be the last book he read. He probably read it in the 6th, 7th 8th or 9th grade, when it usuaally assigned in school.
Anyway for someone who reads a lot of books, you should probably find tangential mentions of having read a particular book (so you could prove someone who read a book, and the absence of anything like that might also mean something, although it wouldn’t be conclusive.
This is probably not something that anyone would have planted a false claim about having read a book because there’s no big interest in that.
Sammy Finkelman (6f9f42) — 3/21/2017 @ 10:24 am