Althouse: Sunrise

December 7, 2025

Sunrise — 7:04.

Darkmonth has begun, so snuggle up and settle in for a long night of conversation on the topics of your choice.

And here's Meade's video of swans, ducks, and coots.

29 comments:

lonejustice said...: Great video. Thanks.; 12/7/25, 5:53 PM
Jaq said...: Falling rents. Rising wages. Perhaps stopping immigration works
Real living standards might grow if the UK replicates Trump’s mass deportation policies
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/12/06/falling-rents-rising-wages-stopping-immigration-works/; 12/7/25, 6:07 PM
Jaq said...: Just saying, if France, Germany, England, and Poland decide to have another war, we sit it out and deal with the winner.; 12/7/25, 6:10 PM
narciso said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 12/7/25, 6:21 PM
narciso said...: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/paris-is-a-city-afraid/; 12/7/25, 6:22 PM
john mosby said...: Prof: "Darkmonth has begun, so snuggle up and settle in for a long night"

I'll take those long nights, impossible odds
Keepin' my eye to the keyhole
If it takes all night to be just what I am
I'm gonna be a blue collar man!

https://youtu.be/CDM6v1XhWEg?si=09TloQ7d-Kg1Gzc2

CC, JSM; 12/7/25, 6:27 PM
narciso said...: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/12/the_eu_us_battle_line.html; 12/7/25, 6:36 PM
Jaq said...: “But we just have to get up. As long as we keep the faith, some hope and get back up and remember who in the hell we are — we are the United States of Amerigotit.” -Joe Biden who personally approved 10,000+ pardons just months ago.; 12/7/25, 6:44 PM
narciso said...: This is why they keep in the glass case; 12/7/25, 6:45 PM
Gerda Sprinchorn said...: Darkmonth! I was just wondering when that started.; 12/7/25, 6:46 PM
Aggie said...: "...Just saying, if France, Germany, England, and Poland decide to have another war, we sit it out and deal with the winner...."

Well... it worked the first two times.; 12/7/25, 6:50 PM
ALP said...: I missed the Spotify year-end wrap discussion and wish to revisit it. At 64, I was shocked when it told me I was "25"! That's not what raised my eyebrows. When it said I listened to "86 genres of music" - that was the WTF moment. My saved songs/albums are not that extensive. What number did others get in terms of # of genres?; 12/7/25, 6:50 PM
narciso said...: Thats way too many categories; 12/7/25, 6:55 PM
gspencer said...: No one is on my hate list. But I do have a Things I Hate List and entry #1 is the Month of January.

Getting through December is easy enough with the distraction of Christmas. But once that's over there's no getting around it. The bleakness of January, the long nights, the cold, the bills, the arrival of the tax forms, and more. I understand why suicides and alcoholism are high in Russia and Scandinavia.; 12/7/25, 6:55 PM
narciso said...: Its a fresh start to the year; 12/7/25, 7:03 PM
rehajm said...: Why did they need so many pardons?; 12/7/25, 7:12 PM
narciso said...: https://youtu.be/U5SUw4iJPP0?si=h7V5CADz3-U8hutZ; 12/7/25, 7:15 PM
Breezy said...: “Why did they need so many pardons?“

Prevailing possibility is money. You have something of value to someone? You sell. Same as it ever was.; 12/7/25, 7:16 PM
Achilles said...: Jaq said...

Just saying, if France, Germany, England, and Poland decide to have another war, we sit it out and deal with the winner.

None of them are capable of war. Out of all those countries only Poland could field more than 100,000 soldiers outside their country in any sort of organized and supported fashion.

The next war will probably be started over the 4 million or so Ukranians that fled to Poland. The Polish and Ukranians are not friends. Hungary and Romania will probably be involved.

But it is going to be a pathetic thing. Europe is old and tired.; 12/7/25, 7:28 PM
Jersey Fled said...: For the first time in a decade, not a single hurricane struck the U.S. this season.; 12/7/25, 7:37 PM
Flat Tire said...: That’s a great video, but it makes my feet cold.; 12/7/25, 7:40 PM
narciso said...: Yeah that was good news for us; 12/7/25, 7:43 PM
Humperdink said...: Jonathan Turley writes in The Hill:

“Today, there are roughly 1.3 million lawyers in the United States. Even if the ABA represented just half of that number, it would have 650,000 members. However, by 2015, it had fallen to 400,000. Last year it fell to 227,000 members, or just 17 percent of the bar.

Notably, the American Medical Association — which also been accused of becoming increasingly political — has experienced the same drop from a high of representing 75 percent of the nation’s doctors to just 15 percent in recent years.”

No mystery as to why. Both organizations went hard left.; 12/7/25, 7:44 PM
narciso said...: Moar selective audience; 12/7/25, 7:44 PM
Old and slow said...: In Ireland, December is a fantastic month. Everyone is happy and busy and there is a long Christmas break to enjoy. After new year's eve, the mood changes altogether. People are broke, the days are short and miserable, and there is little to feel good about. Then one day when you are driving home from work, you notice that it is not dark anymore, and people are standing out in the street having a pint. It's late February and life is good again! I miss that feeling.; 12/7/25, 7:53 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: YouTube: Tim Dillon says Ariana Grande needs to have a meal ...in front of UN observers. (That last line was actually mine); 12/7/25, 8:06 PM
Chest Rockwell said...: Things may be changing at the NY Times. After that fantastic Minnesota Fraud article they've published a piece about Biden's disastrous immigration policies and the comments are fantastic.; 12/7/25, 8:12 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Variety : "Kristen Stewart Says Acting Is ‘Unmasculine’ and Asks: ‘Have You Ever Heard of a Female Actor That Was Method?’"; 12/7/25, 8:18 PM
Rocco said...: Jersey Fled said...
“For the first time in a decade, not a single hurricane struck the U.S. this season.”

I credit the name change to Gulf of America. It’s part of our border security now.; 12/7/25, 8:31 PM