Althouse: 6:07 a.m.

August 15, 2021

6:07 a.m.

(Open thread in the comments.)

10 comments:

Big Mike said...: Now that’s what a sunrise should look like.; 8/15/21, 10:33 AM
Howard said...: Are you getting tired of the Mendota sunrises looking like LA sunsets?; 8/15/21, 11:44 AM
Anon said...: For the U.S., the worst part of the Afghan debacle is that Dems like the humiliation. Takes the empire down another notch, serves racist Amerikkka right.

As others have asked elsewhere, if Joe were a Chinese pawn, what would he do differently, at home and abroad?; 8/15/21, 12:32 PM
Oh Yea said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 8/15/21, 2:03 PM
Oh Yea said...: AP is reporting that Schumer is saying the feds need to crack down on fake COVID-19 vaccination cards being sold online. This seems to be driven in a large part by college students that are buying fake card because colleges are requiring proof of vaccination to attend in-person classes. Seems that fake ID's are being sent from China.

I find these reports deeply disturbing. In my day, when we needed fake ID's we would make our own using simple tools like copiers, X-Acto knives and whiteout. Even with printers/scanners, photoshop and blank CDC vaccination pdf files on the internet, the current generation has to import fake IDs from China instead of making their own.; 8/15/21, 3:10 PM
Big Mike said...: @Oh Yes, (1) it’s a mark of the witlessness of the government medical establishment that they did not provide vaccination cards that are difficult to counterfeit. (2) I have read a study online — can’t vouch for its veracity — that resistance to vaccination roughly correlates with educational attainment, i.e., the most resistant group as far as getting vaccinated is concerned are people with doctorates. So perhaps the college students are merely emulating their faculty? (3) I thought things were supposed to lighten up when we got to 70% vaccinated. Did we not reach that goal a couple weeks ago? This administration’s penchant for moving goal posts does not inspire confidence, nor does ignoring milestones that they formerly touted.; 8/15/21, 3:10 PM
Meade said...: USA and Allies Defeated by Taliban.

My obvious conclusion: The supporters of and voters for Clinton, Bush, Obama and Biden committed consequential errors in judgment.; 8/15/21, 3:39 PM
Lucien said...: Watching Al Jazeera’s video of Taliban in the Presidential Palace, they were taking selfies, but I didn’t see a single guy wearing a horned viking helmet. Guess they’re not REAL insurrectionists.; 8/15/21, 4:45 PM
Jaq said...: OK, this is the first time I have run into a sentence I felt needed to be diagrammed to understand it. It's from James Fenimore Cooper:

While the Sergeant never even hoped to rise any higher, he so far respected himself and his present station as always to act in a way to command attention; and the habit of mixing so much with inferiors, whose passions and dispositions he felt it necessary to restrain by distance and dignity, had so far colored his whole deportment, that few were altogether free from its influence.

Any takers? I guess after reading it five or six more times, I can see what he was getting at and it makes perfect sense. Maybe he just had an outsized IQ and this was to him like a sentence from Hemingway is to us.; 8/16/21, 9:42 AM
Jaq said...: " the most resistant group as far as getting vaccinated is concerned are people with doctorates. "

The primary attribute which contributes to getting your PhD is stubbornness.; 8/16/21, 9:44 AM