Althouse: Meade took a picture of me at daybreak.

March 21, 2025

Meade took a picture of me at daybreak.

7:01 a.m.

Let this be a midday café. That is, write about anything you want.

36 comments:

MadisonMan said...: I am heartened to read the Chancellor's latest email re: funding and planning for the next year at UW-Madison. Being pro-active in uncertain times is the best policy.; 3/21/25, 12:22 PM
Leland said...: It still looks like winter in Madison. Definitely Spring time in Texas. Blue clear skies and high of 74. Also low humidity today, which is uncommon for the Gulf Coast.; 3/21/25, 12:26 PM
Quayle said...: Breaking news coming out of Sheboygan. Two peanuts were walking down the street, and one was assaulted

peanut.; 3/21/25, 12:29 PM
Lem Vibe Banditory said...: Proof o life 😉; 3/21/25, 12:29 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: lookin' good; 3/21/25, 12:31 PM
NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...: We have Rosy-faced Lovebirds in our back yard. There are several colonies here in Phoenix that are descended from escapees from a local parrot rescue back in the 1980's. Mrs. NorthOfTheOneOhOne said she thought she had heard them and caught a couple of glimpses of them in the past but now her bird feeding activities have drawn them in to our back yard. So far we've had 4 show up fairly regularly and we've been seeing them perch in the trees close to the house. Mrs. NorthOfTheOneOhOne is over the moon about the whole situation.; 3/21/25, 12:35 PM
Lem Vibe Banditory said...: here is a good joke.

A JFK conspiracy theorist arrives at the pearly gates. God tells him, the first heaven perk is the answer to the one question they never found the answer to while on earth.

Without missing a beat the conspiracy theorist asks, 'who killed JFK?'

God answers, a lone gunman named Lee Harvey Oswald, from a window atop a book depository, in Dallas Texas.

The conspiracy theorist looks down and says... the conspiracy goes way deeper than I ever thought.; 3/21/25, 12:39 PM
Howard said...: Spring is sprung the grass is rizz I wonderz where da birdies is. "The bird is on the wing", now isn't that absurd, I always thought the wing was on the bird.; 3/21/25, 12:46 PM
Steve said...: Check this out:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/politics/trump-republicans-attack-democrats-actblue.html

Looks like an admission against interest if I've ever seen one.; 3/21/25, 12:51 PM
Lem Vibe Banditory said...: Daily Beast: Opinion: "Elon Musk’s Echo Chamber Is So Deep He Thinks People Actually Like Him"

Writing about Musk and Trump: “I really do believe that because they have created this echo chamber that makes them believe that there are more people who are aligned with their thinking and their ideology than there are, and when they are faced with reality, it really does knock them on their a—.”

I'm old enough to remember the last election incontrovertibly saying who's really in an echo chamber bubble.; 3/21/25, 12:53 PM
Lem Vibe Banditory said...: Speaking of JFK conspiracy theories: The driver did it. I don't remember hearing this one before. From the video, it does look like the driver may have finished him off.; 3/21/25, 1:01 PM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: There is a lot of color in that photograph! And the three distinct slices of the composition are nicely done, purposefully or not.; 3/21/25, 1:20 PM
rastajenk said...: One of my ESPN brackets had the first 8 games yesterday picked correctly...for one shining moment my rank was #1 out of 25 million brackets. I wish I had taken a screen shot.; 3/21/25, 1:22 PM
Rusty said...: Tesla stock is up.; 3/21/25, 1:25 PM
David53 said...: 101 said,
“ We have Rosy-faced Lovebirds in our back yard...”
My wife bought one of those birdfeeders with a camera embedded in the housing. It works! It identifies the type of bird and records them feeding. I didn’t even know what a tufted titmouse was before today. Purchase through Althouse’s Amazon portal.; 3/21/25, 1:27 PM
David53 said...: Tesla is starting to rebound nicely. -30% return on the month but still up 40% from a year ago. +700% from 5 years ago when I first bought some, thanks Elon!; 3/21/25, 1:29 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Lem Vibe Banditory said...
Daily Beast: Opinion: "Elon Musk’s Echo Chamber Is So Deep He Thinks People Actually Like Him"

My Reply, in song...
https://x.com/CaseyDogMo/status/1902189758396428325; 3/21/25, 1:31 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Apply generously.; 3/21/25, 1:32 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: The Gauntlet is thrown.
WWE wrestling Star Kane has challenged Timmy "Macho Man" Walz to a charity match.
Beat his ass Timmy.; 3/21/25, 2:10 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: https://x.com/GlennJacobsTN/status/1902846106679079132; 3/21/25, 2:10 PM
Lawnerd said...: First robin of the year and first sandhill crane sighting. Not bad for up north Wisconsin. Spring is around the corner, any month now.; 3/21/25, 2:19 PM
Yancey Ward said...: "Proof o life 😉"

Only if Althouse is holding up a copy of today's newspaper.; 3/21/25, 2:54 PM
Drago said...: David53: "Tesla is starting to rebound nicely. -30% return on the month but still up 40% from a year ago. +700% from 5 years ago when I first bought some, thanks Elon!"

Careful.

You might trigger Abacus Boy LLR-democratical Rich, Dumb Lefty Mark and Cat Lady gadfly into ANOTHER in a long line of curled-up-in-a-ball crying fits on the floor.; 3/21/25, 3:10 PM
J Severs said...: Nice!; 3/21/25, 3:32 PM
David53 said...: "You might trigger Abacus Boy LLR-democratical Rich.."

Maybe. I just cut and pasted those numbers from my brokerage website so they could be a little off, I don't care.

Here's what I know as a verifiable fact. I bought Tesla at $89 a share in 2020. After I more than tripled my investment I sold it all except for 30% of my original investment. Today that 30% is selling for $248 a share. Still happy.

Here are some other stocks and funds that have been good to me.

LLY-Eli Lilly, a major drug manufacturer. Think Manjuro and possible treatments for Alzhiemers.

RCL-Royal Caribbean Group. Who knew cruise lines would become so popular? Still lot's of upside.

AMZN-Amazon. Nobody is going to give up this method of shopping anytime soon. It's down now but I expect it to climb back up.

LUV-Southwest Airlines. I got hammered on this when Covid hit but it seems to be clawing back into respectability.

ITA-US Aerospace & Defense ETF. They hold a lot of Boeing stock. Not real flashy but it feels like a safe military-industrial complex investment.

Invest at your own risk, do your homework. These investment opinions are strictly my own. Past performance is no guarantee of future success.; 3/21/25, 4:00 PM
wendybar said...: More of THIS, and way less of the burning down of Teslas, and/or our country....

Matt Van Swol
@matt_vanswol
🚨#BREAKING: Hundreds of college students from across the country are using their Spring Break to rebuild homes in Western North Carolina.

Teenage students are traveling from as far away as New Mexico to put on Tyvek suits, clean up, and rebuild dozens of homes.

AMAZING!!!
https://x.com/matt_vanswol/status/1903119568710533568; 3/21/25, 4:06 PM
Leland said...: While we hear from foreigners how much Trump and Musk are ruining America and particularly air travel; how are things at Heathrow?; 3/21/25, 4:27 PM
lonejustice said...: Running From the Dawn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCZcSn3bQjo; 3/21/25, 5:02 PM
Josephbleau said...: “ We have Rosy-faced Lovebirds in our back yard.”

My favorite NewYorker cartoon of two lovebirds, Do I love you? Do I love you? Of course I love you, I’m a godam lovebird!; 3/21/25, 5:36 PM
Josephbleau said...: Under demoadministrations the EPA used sue and settle where a friendly enviroorg would sue the EPA and the government for some aledged envirocrime and would quickly settle for $100mm thus sending government money to envirofreaks and then the government would sign a consent order saying that for 100 years the government was not allowed to do some dirtyenviro thing like allow factories to grind metal.

Trump should look into this. He could get lots of consent orders where the government was not permitted to do die for 50 years and such.; 3/21/25, 5:44 PM
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Eva Marie said...: It’s beginning to look like Joe Biden may be the Democrats’ best hope for 2028. Biden/Harris together again. If Trump can swing nonconsecutive terms, why not Biden?; 3/21/25, 5:57 PM
Peachy said...: Denver mayor, aides used auto deleting encryption app to talk about illegal immigration; 3/21/25, 6:00 PM
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Kakistocracy said...: That's some chronic retribution! There had to be a reason he picked on Columbia. Now we know why…

Decades Ago, Columbia Refused to Pay Trump $400 Million. Note That Number. ~ NYT
'A quarter century ago, the university was looking to expand. It considered, and rejected, property owned by Donald Trump. He did not forget it.'; 3/21/25, 6:19 PM