Althouse: A very dull sunrise.

December 18, 2021

A very dull sunrise.

The dullest!

But it was nice to see the fallen tree cleared away:

23 comments:

Original Mike said...: Are the cones expected to get back to the shop on their own?

Perhaps the work order was vague.; 12/18/21, 7:42 PM
Scott Patton said...: Long shadows of sunrise; 12/18/21, 8:00 PM
Joe Smith said...: Bring a wheelbarrow tomorrow and take home some firewood...; 12/18/21, 8:08 PM
FWBuff said...: The Badgers are doing well in the NCAA Women’s Volleyball championship match tonight. Nebraska is tough, and it’s a great game!; 12/18/21, 8:30 PM
rehajm said...: Twitter suspended the account Project Veritas used to post their video exposing CNN and
@jaketapper’s producer Rick Saleeby fantasizing about an underage girl

That’s just fucking sick. Both of them…; 12/18/21, 8:33 PM
Original Mike said...: Badgers win National Championship in volleyball! Beat some team from west of here. Kansas, I think.; 12/18/21, 9:54 PM
David Begley said...: Badgers defeat Huskers for VB title.; 12/18/21, 10:00 PM
FWBuff said...: Congratulations, Wisconsin! Great championship volleyball match!; 12/18/21, 10:02 PM
Mutaman said...: Finally, some evidence of voter fraud:

https://www.rawstory.com/gop-voters-committing-fraud/; 12/18/21, 10:20 PM
StephenFearby said...: DM 20:51 EST 18 December

Why are so many bosses psychopaths? Scientist claims our stone-age brains prefer people who look as if they could fight off a saber tooth tiger

"...Part of the problem, it seems, is that our brains haven’t changed since the Stone Age. In that time there have been roughly 8,000 generations, and about 7,980 of them have lived in societies in which size and strength were major advantages.

Our brains are wired to favor people who look like they might be good at fending off saber-tooth tigers or hunting gazelles.

Our world has changed but our brains haven’t. Combine those Stone Age biases with modern-day racism and sexism, and it makes the problem even worse.

Short men struggle, too. More than 2,000 years ago, Alexander the Great granted an audience to the captured Persian queen Sisygambis. Alexander was accompanied by his best friend, Hephaestion, who was taller. Immediately, Sisygambis knelt before Hephaestion to plead for her life, mistakenly assuming that the taller man was the king."

[Interestingly, Asteroid 823 Sisigambis, is named after the Persian Queen.]

"...According to Dr Kevin Dutton, a research psychologist at Oxford University, the ten professions with the most psychopaths are chief executives, lawyers, TV and radio personalities, salespeople, surgeons, journalists, police officers, members of the clergy, chefs and civil servants.

Another study found that those with dark triad traits are strongly drawn to positions that give them an opportunity for dominant leadership, and particularly so in finance, sales and law.

Other researchers have found that Washington DC has by far the most psychopaths per capita of any region in the United States."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10325129/Why-bosses-psychopaths.html

I assume this "lawyers as psychopaths" thingy probably doesn't also apply to retired female law professors.; 12/18/21, 10:57 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: Damning New Details Emerge Exposing Massive Web Of Unindicted Operators At The Heart Of January 6

https://www.revolver.news/2021/12/damning-new-details-massive-web-unindicted-operators-january-6/; 12/18/21, 11:10 PM
Titus said...: Congrats to womens volleyball team Wisconsin. My sisters have season tickets at the field house. I am so much more Wisconsin than you or Meade althouse, from a afar. I could never actually live there. Too white and boring.; 12/19/21, 3:01 AM
Lucien said...: Mike: Not your phrase, I know, but “massive web” falls clanky on the ear.; 12/19/21, 5:22 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: UNCLE JIMMY: https://twitter.com/i/status/1471985787168301058; 12/19/21, 5:47 AM
Sydney said...: Dull, but you still managed to capture color. I like the distant gold of the dome in the first and the bright cones in the second.; 12/19/21, 5:58 AM
gilbar said...: So, There WAS an insurrection against the USA on Jan 6th!
And it was led by Ray Epps. I suppose Ray wasn't so much a leader, as a soldier following orders
We should track down HIS bosses, and Bring THEM up on trial.
Where do we find his bosses? We should start looking at their clubhouse; 12/19/21, 7:17 AM
Michael said...: A really smart and insightful essay from Freddie DeBoer about how once solid leftist journalists have totally debased themselves in reaction to the rise of Trump.

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/when-will-chris-hayes-learn-the-lessons; 12/19/21, 7:49 AM
Kai Akker said...: ---Our brains are wired to favor people who look like they might be good at fending off saber-tooth tigers or hunting gazelles.

Stephen, I read your comment with interest. Could be true; strength is useful! But I have a question. If our brains got wired over a few thousand generations to prefer certain sizes and shapes -- how is it that our taste in women's beauty can go from Gibson Girls to Twiggy in three generations?

OK, so no man had any interest in Twiggy. Substitute Cheryl Tiegs, then. Or any other thin, small-breasted model.

Do you, personally, think your brain is wired? Do you think it is wired to preferences that are meaningless today, but might have meant something to someone living 1,000 generations back?

I wonder. I thought one of humans' great gifts was our adaptability. Are we fixed, or are we adaptable?; 12/19/21, 8:05 AM
LA_Bob said...: ann althouse said, "The dullest!

But it was nice to see the fallen tree cleared away:"

And it was nice to see a splash of color in the quasi-monochromatic landscape.

Nice placement of the cones in the picture as well.; 12/19/21, 10:43 AM
Big Mike said...: Other researchers have found that Washington DC has by far the most psychopaths per capita of any region in the United States.

Fun fact. Back in the day I read that there were more psychiatrists in the Wyoming Building, an apartment building since converted to condos located on Columbia Road in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, DC, than in the entire state of Wyoming. Of course that was published years ago in “The Washingtonian” magazine, so who knows if it was true then or still true now. But given the nearly fifty years that I lived in or around Washington I certainly find the density of psychopaths per capita to be very high.

Think about it. How does one get ahead in a huge bureaucracy? By doing your job efficiently and well? Not hardly! Playing the bureaucratic game — backstabbing, blame-shifting, empire-building, stealing other people’s ideas and presenting them as your own — that’s what works in Washington. So what kind of person thrives in that environment?; 12/19/21, 10:55 AM
Narr said...: StephenFearby--

Fascinating stuff. "Soldier" not listed.

As for imperial DC, the most power always attracts the most corruptible.

My personal experience as a big, strong guy is that people do sometimes expect you to lead, or at least hope you will lead.; 12/19/21, 11:02 AM
tim in vermont said...: I just had a tamarack fall in my back yard, and I knew it was coming, but it was standing in a generous patch of poison ivy, so I figured I would wait for winter to cut it down, and now I have been saved the trouble. I read that it makes good firewood, so there's that. They aren't common around here like they are out west, not something people commonly use for firewood in the east, and it looks like a pine tree, except it loses its needles in winter, and burning pine is an open invitation to a chimney fire. But I read it on the internet that I can burn it in my fireplace, so it must be true!; 12/19/21, 3:10 PM
Original Mike said...: Tim - I wouldn't burn wood that fell into a patch of poison ivy. Sounds sketchy.; 12/19/21, 9:12 PM