Althouse: 7:09 a.m. — unseen sunrise, fog, paddleboarder.

October 8, 2021

7:09 a.m. — unseen sunrise, fog, paddleboarder.

Talk about anything you want in the comments.

22 comments:

gilbar said...: Serious Question
What would Chuck do, without his Strawberries? By which, i obviously mean Trump?
anyone remember the last time he said, wrote, thought; Anything that didn't have Trump in it?

Anyone? Chuck? can you?; 10/8/21, 7:46 PM
Eric said...: Two days in a row with no sunrise? Is the world comin to an end?; 10/8/21, 8:08 PM
Big Mike said...: August new jobs forecast: 738,000
August actual new jobs: 366,000 (50% of forecast)

September new jobs forecast: 500,000
September actual new jobs: 194,000 (39% of gorecast)

Democrat economists are pretty bad, and getting worse.; 10/8/21, 8:08 PM
Narr said...: Comedy Central is running Chappelle's Show. I had forgotten how good some of the stuff is--Black Bush for one instance.

One of my complaints about our local PBS station--forget the politics!--is that a lot of specials that I'd like to see are not shown in this market. Great Performances and the like, replaced because of expense, I suppose, with various things--gospel music, doowop, country, as luck might have it.

Tonight they're actually showing some hoity-toity opera stuff from Versailles. I'll be glued to the tube.; 10/8/21, 8:15 PM
rcocean said...: I want to talk about Primitive root wieners. In his Oct 4th column, Rod Dreher wants to discuss circumcision, but first needs to talk about that unforgettable Penis from 3rd grade:

but I remember the one kid we had in my elementary school class, a black boy who had been born at home, and who was not circumcised. All us boys wanted to stare at his primitive root wiener when we were at the urinal during recess, because it was monstrous. Nobody told us that wieners could look like that. The kid didn’t know why his penis was so strange looking, and neither did we. Third grade, man.

You won't get this sort of writing from anyone else. Its why Rod is driving traffic at TAC.; 10/8/21, 8:20 PM
Narr said...: I can't believe I forgot to post this, re: understanding and metaphor.

"Metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man."

Jose Ortega y Gasset; 10/8/21, 9:01 PM
R C Belaire said...: Reading a bit from James Lileks : "Yes, I know, etymology is the last resort of the desperate blogger,..."

Not implying anything here.; 10/8/21, 9:27 PM
Quaestor said...: That paddleboard dude doesn't know the risk he runs. Mendotasaurus likes to cruise on the surface when the lake is foggy and there's hardly a breath of wind.; 10/8/21, 9:45 PM
Drago said...: rcocean: "You won't get this sort of writing from anyone else. Its why Rod is driving traffic at TAC."

It is amazing isn't it just how whacked out the entire NeverTrump brigade is....which is why they were fakecon NeverTrumpers in the first place.

These cats are always wandering around praising pant creases, wondering aloud about penises, improperly pursuing underage penises (I'm looking at you Lincoln Pedophile Project), desperately assisting democraticals in their purges of actual conservatives (I'm looking at you David French, Jonah Goldberg, Steve Hayes for helping Facebook deplatform actual conservatives), calling for permanent democratical power at all levels of government, etc.

Its very "LLR" of them as well.; 10/8/21, 9:49 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Huge errors about covid printed by the NYT. No accusations of “Misinformation”? Anybody?; 10/8/21, 10:42 PM
Drago said...: "McConnell warns Biden that Republicans will not help raise the debt ceiling again in December due to Schumer's 'tantrum' speech and 'grave concerns that another reckless spending bill will hurt America'"

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!

No. One. Believes. You. Mitch.

You will be right there, in December, throwing the democraticals another lifeline.....because that's what the now pro-democratical Chamber of Commerce wants.....and what Frank Luntz wants.

You know Mitch, your actual constituency.........as opposed to the republican base voters.

More "Failure Theatre" is on the way.; 10/8/21, 10:48 PM
TennLion said...: Do you have any views on WaPo's analysis of Wisconsin politics? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/08/wisconsin-polarization-democrats-republicans/; 10/9/21, 12:53 AM
gadfly said...: JSOnline reports that former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, the attorney leading a partisan review of Wisconsin's 2020 election acknowledged this week that he doesn't understand how elections are supposed to be run. Gableman's admission that he does not know how elections work comes 10 months after he told a crowd of supporters of former President Donald Trump without evidence that elected officials had allowed bureaucrats to "steal our vote."

So, after Gableman spends his $676,000 budget, he will know nothing more than he knew in his first 55 years. To assess whether or not Wisconsin votecounters cheated en masse, the ex-Wisconsin judge has hired obviously unbiased attorney Andrew Kloster, who worked in the White House under former President Donald Trump, to soak up the spending budget. Where are the Cyber Ninjas when needed?; 10/9/21, 4:11 AM
Mikey NTH said...: Hope the paddleboarder is wearing a lifejacket. Water's awfully chilly this time of year.; 10/9/21, 4:20 AM
Clyde said...: Black 18-year-old school shooter in Arlington, Texas, who shot three people at his high school this week, released on bail!

Meanwhile, angry parents shouting at school board members about mask mandates and Critical Race Theory are under FBI scrutiny as potential "domestic terrorists," and knuckleheads who illegally paraded through the Capitol on January 6th have been jailed without charges for NINE MONTHS, some in solitary confinement.

What is wrong with this picture, besides everything? Who is the real danger to the community? Answer, they don't care about dangers to the COMMUNITY, they care only about dangers to the OLIGARCHY. No wall at the southern border to keep millions of illegal immigrants from swarming across this year, but 25,000 National Guard troops, fences and concertina wire to protect themselves.

Let's Go, Brandon!; 10/9/21, 5:08 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "Do you have any views on WaPo's analysis of Wisconsin politics?"

Thanks. I looked at it, but it's very long. Anything special about it, in your view, that makes it worth reading? Democrats live in the bigger cities and Republicans in the rural areas.... Tammy Baldwin and Ron Johnson are our Senators... What is there to learn here? We fight over redistricting. The governor and the legislature are from different parties....; 10/9/21, 5:22 AM
Jaq said...: "Great Performances and the like, replaced because of expense, I suppose, with various things--gospel music, doowop, country, as luck might have it. "

That's because they spend all of the money anybody gives them pushing Biden Regime propaganda.; 10/9/21, 5:53 AM
Breezy said...: I am hopeful that Biden’s tanking approval numbers will end up stopping his Build Back Better Act, which is mostly a hodgepodge of unwanted new policies somehow deemed to be budget-related enough to be able to go through using the Reconciliation route. Same as Obamacare was, mistakenly in my view. Will other Dems start to see the light on this Bill, and decide not to hitch their ride to it?; 10/9/21, 6:22 AM
Jaq said...: OK, I am a little bit obsessing on semicolons and hyphens right now because I am working on a novel and want my dialogue to sound natural. It's a historical novel, so I am reading novels written in the past to develop an ear for the language of the time. I run into this sentence, spoken by an Indian: "This canoe is mine; I found it on the shore.”

My argument is that the semicolon denotes rhythmic occurrences in natural speech. In natural speech, the speaker would not have said "because," or inserted a comma pause and then a "since." The semicolon tells us that the two ideas are closely related, just as the rhythm of a speaker's speech would. If you split it into two sentences, it could mean that he found his canoe on the shore, not that it's his because he found it there.

The same reasoning applies to hyphens. "Creepy-ass cracker" would sound differently in natural speech than "creepy ass-cracker." We can throw out these tools, I guess, but only if we want to lose the precision of written English as it has developed over the centuries.

You can pry the semicolon from my cold, dead fingers. But it certainly can be overused.; 10/9/21, 8:19 AM
Narr said...: I did a lot of public speaking, and found that precise punctuation--if I was able to prepare beforehand--helped me with delivery.; 10/9/21, 12:41 PM
Josephbleau said...: "My argument is that the semicolon denotes rhythmic occurrences in natural speech. In natural speech, "

I am sympathetic, yet speech has nothing to do with the semicolon.; 10/9/21, 11:09 PM
TennLion said...: Writer's thesis was that partisianship was caused by Walker's Act 10, leading to Democratic resistance. No mention of resistance, IIRC, that started before Act 10 was even proposed. Nor any mention of John Doe investigations, Wisconsin Supreme Court interventions, etc. Seemed to me to be a one-sided rehearsal of Dem grievances at losing policy fights after losing election, but I thought your observations would be useful. (I'm not sure that my memory isn't also one-sided.); 10/10/21, 9:23 PM