Althouse: Sunrise at 6:51, 6:55.

September 26, 2021

Sunrise at 6:51, 6:55.

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7 comments:

Jaq said...: I am not saying that it's what happened, but it is a coincidence that soon after The New Yorker publishes an editorial suggesting environmental sabotage, that a passenger train derails on a track that mostly carries freight, you know, like oil. I am just keeping an eye on the story is all. Could be something else.; 9/26/21, 7:35 PM
David Begley said...: I was thinking about driving to Madison for Nebraska v. Wisconsin, but now that looks like a bad idea.; 9/26/21, 8:08 PM
WK said...: I want to know, have you ever seen the reins
Comin down on a sunny day; 9/26/21, 8:24 PM
YoungHegelian said...: There's a real ugly side to the environmental movement that, like most whack-job aspects of the modern Left, the moderate left works hard to obfuscate. Some of them, like the Guardian's George Monbiot, are honest about the fact that any attempt to shut down Global Warming will necessitate both dictatorial state powers & widespread poverty.

Others go far more off the deep end, seeing mankind as a "cancer" on the Earth's biosphere or arguing for a reduction in the human population down to Neolithic levels. Now, how we reduce those "tumors" or get that population level down from 7.6 billion to 100,000 is left for us to guess. Probably, it won't be pretty....

A quick intro.; 9/26/21, 8:28 PM
gadfly said...: So railroad track can buckle at 84 degrees Fahrenheit - but only when a ten-car passenger train with two diesel locomotives (Lots of power to transport just 141 people) happens by on its way to building empires, or perhaps Seattle.

Sadly, the answer to preserving lives, avoiding injury and saving taxpayers money comes down to shutting all Amtrak interstate long-haul passenger trains effective immediately. Passenger counts are pathetic. Private bus services are far cheaper, more flexible, more convenient and offer passenger drop-off at every intersection as needed. Best of all, wi-fi service is usually included and no rubber chicken sandwiches served for lunch.; 9/27/21, 2:48 AM
Jaq said...: Joe Biden likes Amtrak, George W Bush put Biden's son Hunter on the board of Amtrak, when the boy was just out of college, for a $90K per annum, barely show, gig. According to the laptop that has been authenticated now, and never was denied, Joe Biden customarily got half of that kind of money. Sorry, but the uni-party people that you so breathlessly defend love to waste money on those trains.; 9/27/21, 8:40 AM
daskol said...: YH, a long time ago I dated the daughter of a professor often associated with the deep ecology and broader conservation movement—it was my first exposure to deep pessimism about society and humanism, humanity really, and he’s considered one of the more optimistic thinkers. Some of John Gray’s essays, those showcasing vividly to his skepticism of humanism, remind me of this vein of thought. He’s always been interesting and his work often a potent threat to my own mental comfort.; 9/27/21, 9:14 AM