Althouse: Sunrise — 5:57, 6:22, 6:25.

August 31, 2025

Sunrise — 5:57, 6:22, 6:25.

Write about whatever you want in the comments. The third photo is by Meade. One and 2 are by me.

46 comments:

Hassayamper said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 8/31/25, 4:42 PM
Hassayamper said...: The Landmark edition of Julius Caesar's war diaries is excellent. Marvelous annotations and maps help you orient yourself to modern place names, and the nations and events and personalities tied to the same vicinity before and after.

The Landmark series also includes Herodotus, which will be next up. I've already read Travels with Herodotus by Kapuściński, which I think will pair nicely with it.

Then on to Thucydides, Xenophon, and Arrian's Alexander....; 8/31/25, 4:47 PM
Mary E. Glynn said...: You should have posted your 6:25...; 8/31/25, 4:51 PM
Mary E. Glynn said...: (after his...); 8/31/25, 4:52 PM
gadfly said...: “The mayor is in great spirits. He’s a beast. He survived 9/11,” bankrupt and disbarred Rudy Giulliani's security chief said.

Giuliani, 81, was hospitalized with a fractured vertebrae and multiple cuts and bruises, including injuries specifically to his left arm and lower leg, after his rent-a-car was hit from behind, in Manchester, NH.

Indeed, he survived the the attack on the Twin Towers along with eight million other New Yorkers.; 8/31/25, 4:52 PM
Iman said...: Your generous spirit and care for your fellow Americans is duly noted, ‘fly 🪰.; 8/31/25, 5:08 PM
Humperdink said...: It sure is easy to spot the non-Christians in the wake of the Catholic school shooting. Mocking “thoughts and prayers” is a pretty good clue.; 8/31/25, 5:09 PM
Jamie said...: Wow, gad.; 8/31/25, 5:15 PM
Jim at said...: Just before the crash, Giuliani had stopped to assist a woman who flagged him down as a victim of domestic violence. He contacted police on her behalf and remained at the scene until officers arrived. The collision occurred shortly after he resumed driving and was unrelated to the earlier incident.

It's interesting how some people reveal their true character - either through actions - or comments on an Internet board.; 8/31/25, 5:40 PM
Jaq said...: Putin is the reason that Canadians don't feel safe!

https://x.com/katewerk/status/1962152726550434052

Not just that, but Putin is behind all of the immigration problems Europe is experiencing!

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/08/29/european-commission-president-ursula-von-der-leyen-blames-russia-for-eu-immigration-crisis/

Honestly, the propaganda they expect us to buy seems designed for unusually credulous twelve year olds; 8/31/25, 5:44 PM
Jaq said...: I wonder if gadfly thinks that he is winning friends and influencing people.; 8/31/25, 5:45 PM
rehajm said...: They play like the statement we control the narrative is still true. Now even Ann doesn’t buy anything they’re selling…; 8/31/25, 5:49 PM
rehajm said...: …except subscriptions…; 8/31/25, 5:49 PM
Jimmy said...: gadfly continues to keep it classy. Hate based as always, if it's not the Joooos, it's TDS max. as usual, leaves out nonessential items, because 'score points' , and more hate.
good exercise for him would be to look at pics of famous Jew haters and TDS sufferers, before and after. all that hate eats your soul sweetie.
Great photos today!; 8/31/25, 5:51 PM
rehajm said...: …They were really really counting on the Supremes backstopping all their shit. I can’t tell if they’re hoping to hang on long enough to reconstitute tue Supremes in some way or if they’re already defeated with nowhere else to go…; 8/31/25, 5:53 PM
Jaq said...: An interesting google search is "Syrian christian massacre." Remember when Obama moved US troops into Syria to bleed them dry by occupying their wheat fields and oil fields, starving them and creating a huge refugee crisis in Europe, then Trump ordered US troops out, and the US military disobeyed, and we kept sanctions on Syria over some disputed claims about chemical weapons, which Stephen McIntyre maintains were not at all credible, and then the US and Israel and Turkey finally destroyed the government there and put the head choppers in charge? Oh yeah, and we took the $30 million price, which was there for terrorism, off of Syria's new leader's head, that was cool.; 8/31/25, 5:54 PM
Mary Beth said...: The US Open hat stealing guy, Piotr Szczerek, defended his actions by saying he's faster and stronger (than a child). His wife posted that the kid got a "pro bono life lesson".

These people seem perfectly matched. It's so nice they found each other.; 8/31/25, 5:57 PM
Jamie said...: I keep saying - it's hard for Democrats to be plain old Democrats now, since the party has declared its hills to die on to be things that make no sense to the normies. And the few who are trying to be moderate - wasn't it Wes Moore who finally admitted that he didn't want his daughters facing dongs in the locker room or biological males on the playing field? Isn't it Ezra Klein who's trying to get them to abandon their bizarre obsessions with who has sex with whom to focus on how to get housing built? - get dragged mercilessly by their own side.

The problem is that Trump is mostly a Clinton Democrat with a few fiscally conservative policies. Where does that leave today's Democrats?; 8/31/25, 5:57 PM
Hassayamper said...: They play like the statement we control the narrative is still true.

It must be extraordinarily frustrating to be an elite newspaperman or a TV talking head, especially an old dinosaur who remembers the days of Walter Cronkite and Punch Sulzberger, and have to come to grips with the fact that half the country is not just suspicious of everything you say, but will consider it proof to the contrary until demonstrated otherwise. The Democrat Party bigfoots miss those days even more acutely. No wonder they have been working so assiduously to censor the public on social media, here and elsewhere in the so-called "free world".

I look forward to the day when former TV producers and newspaper reporters are selling flower bouquets on street corners to support their families. Let us work for the complete and total destruction of the journalistic establishment. There is no way that any human being can hate the news media as much as they deserve.; 8/31/25, 6:03 PM
Jaq said...: Personally, I have decided against using the term "normies" anymore. I have used it plenty as shorthand, but people think that it is an insult, when really, what I mean by "normie" is a "kind-hearted person of strong morality who wants what is best for the world." These people are the easiest to manipulate. Their kind hearted morality is like the tuning knob on a radio to propagandists.; 8/31/25, 6:08 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Where is the picture of Meade taking the picture of Althouse taking a picture of sunrise?; 8/31/25, 6:09 PM
Original Mike said...: I greeted the sunrise this morning, having been up all night observing with the 12.5". It was a good night.; 8/31/25, 6:14 PM
Lazarus said...: I knew that newspapers were getting thinner. I didn't realize the print was also getting smaller. If you get the NYT paper edition I'd imagine the temptation (if reading glasses or a magnifying glass weren't close at hand) would be just to ignore everything and cancel the subscription. It seems like the actual newspaper is now just a feeble adjunct to the website.; 8/31/25, 6:19 PM
Jamie said...: I use "normies" in the same ssense that gay people began using "gay" and "queer" (the latter of which is now off limits again to the gay folk) - to wrest it back from those who want to use it to deride.; 8/31/25, 6:20 PM
Mason G said...: "The problem is that Trump is mostly a Clinton Democrat with a few fiscally conservative policies. Where does that leave today's Democrats?"

An even better question is where does that leave an actual conservative while Democrats are bitching about a mostly Democrat in the White House?; 8/31/25, 6:27 PM
FormerLawClerk said...: "His wife posted that the kid got a "pro bono life lesson."

The pro bono life lesson is that there's always going be an asshole somewhere in your life, and you gotta be ready to punch that motherfucker right in the balls.; 8/31/25, 6:29 PM
Mason G said...: "Their kind hearted morality is like the tuning knob on a radio to propagandists."

See: Borat; 8/31/25, 6:31 PM
Hassayamper said...: "Their kind hearted morality is like the tuning knob on a radio to propagandists."

See: Borat

That guy Cohen is one of the most despicable assholes on the planet. People were nothing but nice and accommodating to him and he shit all over them. A very typical leftist. I'd spit in his face if I ever met him.; 8/31/25, 6:37 PM
Jamie said...: Mason G @6:27, a question I ask myself frequently! But given the real-world alternatives of "Clinton Democrat with some fiscally conservative policies and a bunch of people in the cabinet concerned about the economic condition of my country who do not subscribe to MMT" versus "any declared Democrat" - I have to go with the Clinton Democrat.; 8/31/25, 6:39 PM
Mason G said...: "I have to go with the Clinton Democrat."

Oh, I'm not arguing against that. What I'd really like to know is why conservatives can find a way to accept (because they don't really have much of a choice not to, I suppose) a Clinton Democrat while the Democrats can't.

I mean- aside from the obvious observation that way too many Democrats are just assholes.; 8/31/25, 6:53 PM
n.n said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 8/31/25, 6:55 PM
n.n said...: I'm gay, except when I'm serious, and even then I'm lighthearted, and never albinophobic. #HateLovesAbortion; 8/31/25, 6:57 PM
Lazarus said...: "Normies" used to be the regular, mainstream Americans. Lately, though, it's come to signify those who aren't in the know about what's really going on. Regular, mainstream Americans to be sure, but those who still listen to the network news (or to no news at all) and aren't aware of the bitter conflicts going on in the country (at least in the eyes of those who use the word).
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"Conservatives" were mostly just for show. I don't have a problem with a 1980s Democrat in the White House if he makes the right decisions on the issues that matter.; 8/31/25, 6:59 PM
Mason G said...: "I don't have a problem with a 1980s Democrat in the White House if he makes the right decisions on the issues that matter."

I'm not arguing against that, either.; 8/31/25, 7:07 PM
Inga said...: Why is Trump trying to start a war with Venezuela?; 8/31/25, 7:11 PM
buwaya said...: Probably trying to encourage a coup vs Maduro. Or discourage Venezuelan adventurism in Guyana.; 8/31/25, 7:14 PM
Dr Weevil said...: Any time Jaq begins "Remember when" I know he's going to write things I don't remember because they didn't happen. The overthrow of Assad was done by the Syrian people, with a lot of help from Turkey and a little from a few Ukrainians training the rebels to use drones. Neither the US nor Israel had any part in it. Assad fell because he'd murdered half a million of his fellow Syrians and tortured at least as many more. He fell the same way Ceaucescu did: gradually, then suddenly, when everyone turned on him except his guiltiest accomplices, who abandoned him to save their own hides.

As for the idea that "Putin is behind all of the immigration problems Europe is experiencing", that's an exaggeration, it's not all, but he and his lapdog Lukashenko are certainly behind a lot of it. The fact is that Belarus imports tens of thousands of Third World refugees and buses them straight to the Polish border, encouraging them to cross. They do it to screw over Poland. It's only been a few weeks since Poland had to authorize its troops to use live ammunition in blocking the crowds cutting holes in the fence, since they were getting more violent. I believe Russia has done similar things on a smaller scale on its borders with Finland and other countries, encouraging Third Worlders to sneak across on bicycles. Anyone who doesn't already know this doesn't know much about the cold (or lukewarm?) war Russia and its allies are waging against NATO and the EU. I'm pretty sure Iran and Qatar are also financing the 'migrants' crossing the Mediterranean from Libya and Morocco.; 8/31/25, 7:19 PM
Kakistocracy said...: "Why is Trump trying to start a war with Venezuela?"

Or is he trying to create a diversion away from his health issues or maybe Epstein?; 8/31/25, 7:24 PM
Dr Weevil said...: It would be more honest to write "his alleged health issues".; 8/31/25, 7:27 PM
Inga said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 8/31/25, 7:30 PM
Inga said...: "Why is Trump trying to start a war with Venezuela?"

“Or is he trying to create a diversion away from his health issues or maybe Epstein?”

Wag the dog…; 8/31/25, 7:34 PM
buwaya said...: Theres not enough on station to make a significant attack on Venezuela. 7 -8 ships. A show of force not a serious threat.; 8/31/25, 7:35 PM
Gospace said...: First time I read normies it was by one of us describing us. Never heard it used despairingly. Perfectly good term.

Someone using it in a negative manner is calling themselves abnormal. Think about that for a second- calling themselves abnormal. How many supporters is that going to garner?; 8/31/25, 7:41 PM
mongo said...: The Washington Post Metro section today had an article about the paltry amount of rain we had in August following lots of rain in June and July. They explained that “ Extreme dry and wet spells, often in short succession, are a hallmark of human-caused climate change.”

When I mentioned this to my wife she said, “Huh. We used to call it‘weather.’l; 8/31/25, 7:44 PM
n.n said...: Obama's ethnic Springs? Second Iraq war and regional conflicts? Biden's progress and Afghan affair?

Epstein as in Democratic nondiscrimination for sexual orientation (e.g. homosexual, pedophile)? As in abortion of the "burden" of evidence in sanctuary states? The wicked solution?

Sequester the thought.; 8/31/25, 7:44 PM
n.n said...: Climate is defined as a normal weather distribution over a 30 year period. Yeah, unattributed single digit temperature anomalies with irregular modeled features is change in the cisclimate sense without evidence of catastrophic transitions, anthropogenic or otherwise. Look out for subsidence and islands tipping.; 8/31/25, 7:51 PM