Althouse: In the garden.

July 7, 2026

In the garden.

Video by Meade.

33 comments:

Olson Johnson is right! said...: Is this a cafe post? OK to write what you want? Is there a tag for 'polls' on the Althouse Blog? I am not a machine.; 7/7/26, 11:24 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: Humans have an innate attraction to beauty. Those are beautiful scenes.; 7/7/26, 11:45 AM
Peachy+2 said...: Lovely.; 7/7/26, 11:53 AM
Narr said...: After all the hoopla, little Belgium outkicks the USNMT. Now we can get back to real sports.; 7/7/26, 12:09 PM
Saint Croix said...: After all the hoopla, little Belgium outkicks the USNMT. Now we can get back to real sports.

I'm still watching, as long as Argentina and England are still in it.

Argentina is currently getting stomped by Egypt. That sucks.

On the positive side, Egypt has long been a Zionist country in the Middle East, one that recognizes Israel's right to exist. That's huge! And highly unusual.

Islamic terrorists can murder Sadat, but his noble peace gesture remains intact. Respect, Egypt, respect.

If only our universities and our brainwashed leftists could follow your peace-loving example.; 7/7/26, 12:40 PM
Saint Croix said...: Goal! Argentina fighting back. Great free-market economy in Argentina.; 7/7/26, 12:44 PM
Saint Croix said...: holy shit, they just tied it

this game is good; 7/7/26, 12:48 PM
Saint Croix said...: "the game of the tournament"; 7/7/26, 12:58 PM
Saint Croix said...: Argentina came back at the last minute. Now it's 3 to 2.; 7/7/26, 12:59 PM
Smilin' Jack said...: “On the positive side, Egypt has long been a Zionist country in the Middle East, one that recognizes Israel's right to exist. That's huge!”

Watching soccer must soften the brain. Egypt is definitely not a Zionist country, and recognizing Israel’s right to exist is not “huge”, it’s grudging realpolitik ever since they got their asses kicked in the Six Day War.; 7/7/26, 2:26 PM
n.n said...: Zionists are community organizers.; 7/7/26, 2:47 PM
hawkeyedjb said...: Here in Bordeaux, the sidewalks in front of the restaurants/bars/cafes are filled to overflowing when France plays. If you are lucky enough to score a seat, you get to watch the game close enough to actually see it. If you score a table, you get to watch the game and you have many, many friends. We were kept awake by the late-night madness and tootling of horns when France gained its last victory. It only gets crazier from here.; 7/7/26, 2:49 PM
Saint Croix said...: Egypt is definitely not a Zionist country

Good! Then every country in the Middle East ought to follow their example and recognize Israel's right to exist.

Very basic and simple step that non-Zionists can do. Right?; 7/7/26, 3:02 PM
mccullough said...: Soccer is the ultimate colonial sport. So much for the Decolonists.; 7/7/26, 3:19 PM
Hassayamper said...: In The Garden - Johnny Cash

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We played this at my dad's funeral.; 7/7/26, 3:52 PM
Vance said...: So my local paper just ran an editorial that demanded Trump stop deporting people because it is better for pedos to rape children than deport the pedos because deportation is worse than child sexual abuse.

Really. That's the argument. We need to stop deporting anyone because kids are better off being raped and abused than the horrors of deporting people. This is the left, folks.; 7/7/26, 4:02 PM
Hassayamper said...: editorial that demanded Trump stop deporting people because it is better for pedos to rape children than deport the pedos because deportation is worse than child sexual abuse.

Deporting illegals robs the Democrats of fraudulent votes. Of course they care much more deeply about that than about such inconsequential things as child abuse.; 7/7/26, 4:14 PM
tcrosse said...: Poor Harry lost his £50 Millon lawsuit with the Daily Mail, and is not taking it gracefully. He could really use the money, or at least his wife could. I do not have a heart of stone, so LOL.; 7/7/26, 4:16 PM
Jim at said...: *On the positive side, Egypt has long been a Zionist country in the Middle East, one that recognizes Israel's right to exist. That's huge! And highly unusual.*

Then why was their head coach waving the Palestinian flag and screaming, "Free Palestine!" after their win over Australia?; 7/7/26, 4:26 PM
Saint Croix said...: Poor Harry lost his £50 Millon lawsuit with the Daily Mail, and is not taking it gracefully. He could really use the money, or at least his wife could. I do not have a heart of stone, so LOL.

Apparently in England, the plaintiff attorneys do not take a percentage. So plaintiffs have to pay their attorneys out of pocket. That really discourages lawsuits, I imagine, especially among poor people.

Prince Harry might owe his attorneys $50 million in legal fees

Ouch.; 7/7/26, 4:27 PM
Saint Croix said...: Then why was their head coach waving the Palestinian flag and screaming, "Free Palestine!" after their win over Australia?

Probably trying to excite the crowd? I don't know.

What does one guy's opinion have to do with Egypt recognizing Israel's right to exist?

Egypt recognizing Israel as a sovereign nation was a major first step to peace in the Middle East. The Abraham Accords are building on that success.

Egypt, Morocco, Bahrain, Sudan, UAE. All of these countries are peace-loving Islamic states that recognize Israel's right to exist. Good for them!

This was Jimmy Carter who started this process, for all you liberal fuckwits who think Trump's recognition of Israel is somehow awful. Every American president since World War 2 has recognized Israel's right to exist.

Here's Obama wearing a yarmulke.

I say we flash that image outside of every Democratic rally, and every bullshit Ivy League conference, and all the other insane fucking hate groups that are springing up in this country.

Yeah, that's right. I'm calling Obama a Zionist, too.; 7/7/26, 5:09 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Yeah the most important thing isn't whether a country likes Americans, its whether they like Israel - LOL.

F-35 for Turkey is now a controversy because our rulers in Israel don't like it. Look for Lindsey Graham back from the gay lights of Tel Aviv to go on TV saying he's against it.; 7/7/26, 5:28 PM
Tina Trent said...: My neighbors had an entire yard of well-weeded native tall wildflowers instead of grass. The city had to lay two new septic and water lines on their corner lot and tore most of it up. Usually, the city then just comes through and re-sods grass when they're done, or leaves a puddle of clay mud.

But this time, in a magical act of bureaucratic grace, the septic guys had UGA research the flower mix; mulched and planted seeds and seedlings, and returned it to its former glory.

Gives you a tiny bit of bureaucratic hope. In SE Atlanta!; 7/7/26, 5:30 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: People online have been asserting all tournament that FIFA is "fixing" the games for Argentina because they want a Marquee team in the finals. Sounds a little far-fetched to me, but calling back that Eygptian goal will add fuel to the fire. In any case, all Eygpt had to do was keep Argentina from scoring 3 goals in the last half. They cant blame that on FIFA.; 7/7/26, 5:31 PM
Luke Lea said...: Beautiful. Mead's a gardener.; 7/7/26, 5:36 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Columbia may be gem of the ocean but they're not the gem of the world cup. They just lost to the Swiss on penalty kicks.

A good hard fought game. The Swiss mercenaries (hardly anyone was actually born in Switzerland) will move on.; 7/7/26, 5:53 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Good news from Wimbledon - Coco puffs won her match and is in the semi-finals.; 7/7/26, 5:56 PM
Jim at said...: *What does one guy's opinion have to do with Egypt recognizing Israel's right to exist?*

You're propping up Egypt as some sort of beacon of light with regards to Israel when clearly they are not.

And he's not just 'some guy.' He's the GD head coach/manager of their soccer team currently performing on the world stage.; 7/7/26, 6:01 PM
Rocco said...: Re: Free Palestine.
Egypt has a massive border wall with Gaza to keep the Palestinians out.; 7/7/26, 6:12 PM
Narr said...: I don't really care about sportsball, but I enjoy seeing Muzzie teams lose.; 7/7/26, 6:20 PM
Leland said...: The Egypt foul that cost them a goal was the same activity (stepping on an opponent’s toes) that got the US striker a red card.; 7/7/26, 6:50 PM
Big Mike said...: @Narr, 3 of 8 teams in the quarterfinals are from Muslim-majority nations: Morocco, England, and France.; 7/7/26, 7:08 PM
Smilin' Jack said...: “Free Palestine!” means free of Jews. From the river to the sea. What Hitler called Judenfrei. No Islamic country has what we call freedom, and if the Palestinians get their own it will be just another backward Islamist shithole that produces nothing but terrorists and refugees. Not even oil.; 7/7/26, 7:22 PM