Althouse: At the Sunrise Café...

February 10, 2022

At the Sunrise Café...

... you can talk about whatever you want.

23 comments:

Narr said...: Those ooze with cold. Already we're hitting the 60s, and probably will top 70 tomorrow.

But as we say around here we get all four seasons--sometimes in one.

FWIW I didn't try to keep up with the news while the power was out, and am favorably impressed that we haven't blundered into war over Ukraine.

The only thing I missed a lot while offline was Althouse (awww). And &%#?tube. Our NPR mostly classical station has been down also--I got a bad signal for a while this afternoon but they're completely off again.; 2/10/22, 6:34 PM
farmgirl said...: I’ve been highly-piggly posting everything everywhere! It’s been a week! Hopefully, things will brighten. Thank you for this place to bare/bear it all. You’re very good to those you don’t necessarily agree w/even 50% of the time lol; 2/10/22, 6:39 PM
farmgirl said...: I bet you’d be a great carpenter- I’m thinking furniture. You have a great eye for balance.; 2/10/22, 6:40 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Steven Soderbergh has a new film up on HBO.

"I'm Here" - that's not the name of the movie, but after watching the trailer I thought it ought to be - "I'm here".

Looking forward to watching it, though, it was a mistake to watch the trailer. It contained too much information. I recommend not to watch the trailer, though, I probably couldn't afford paying you not to watch it.; 2/10/22, 6:42 PM
William50 said...: The stratospheric polar vortex is strengthening.
Circulation will now be more latitudinal. Winter in the northern hemisphere will last longer. More snowfall in Europe.; 2/10/22, 6:43 PM
Big Mike said...: Poll from CNN. “What has Biden done that you approve of?”

56% answered “Nothing/ Disapprove of everything”; 2/10/22, 6:51 PM
Browndog said...: Today, the Ontario government went to court to freeze the $8 Million raised for the truckers via GiveSendGo. Order was granted.

For those wondering, the Order which the Ontario government obtained under section 490.8 of the Criminal Code freezes the distribution of the millions donated to the Convoy through GiveSendGo, now alleged to be "offence-related property".; 2/10/22, 6:55 PM
wildswan said...: I was wondering how India Arie had managed to come up the compilation of clips from The Joe Rogan Experience. This show runs 3/4 times a week and is usually two and half hours long. There have been 1963 episodes. To listen to them all would take 211 days. How could she have assembled those clips, some from 2013, some from 2018? and then edited them? But it now appears that someone else assembled and edited the compilation and gave it to her. In a Huffpo story 2/10/2022 "[India Arie] clarified that she never called Rogan a racist and that she simply chose not to associate with Spotify after seeing the video compilation." So I wonder who did assemble it.

Furthermore, if India Arie did not assemble the compilation then she have would no way of knowing whether Rogan was discussing the term and its use as of now or whether he was actually using it in an old-time racist way. What was the context? The clips make it appear that he was using it in that old horrible way. But they are so cut from context that he might have been saying white people now must learn never to use or discuss the term, ever, though it can be used by African-American song writers who hope to sell to white people on Spotify, songs or raps using the word, songs or raps that white people can never sing or mention. But they can download them and pay for them. Is this great country or what?

https://jrelibrary.com/articles/stats/
Total Length of All JRE Podcasts
The total length of all 1963 JRE podcasts (excluding sponsored ad reads) is 5,067 hours with an average episode duration of 2hrs 34min 53sec. Listening to every single episode of The Joe Rogan Experience non-stop would take about 211 days or just over half a year. However, you could always listen to the podcast at 2x speed to cut that in half.

"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/india-arie-joe-rogan-reacts-apology_n_62053af7e4b0ccfb3e521bcb; 2/10/22, 7:27 PM
madAsHell said...: "The ice is slowly melting.
Here comes the sun!!"; 2/10/22, 7:36 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Check out the 7 year old.

Link to video; 2/10/22, 8:18 PM
Fernandinande said...: Fernandinande said...
I want to see the new "Nightmare Alley" because ... perhaps Guillermo del Toro can capture a bit more of the [creepy] book.

Nope. It wasn't a bad movie, but I was disappointed.; 2/10/22, 8:46 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Report: Canadian Official 'Freezes' All Funding to Freedom Convoy as GiveSendGo Contributions Hit $8 Million.; 2/10/22, 9:01 PM
tim in vermont said...: This Canadian trucker thing is GameStop all over again.; 2/10/22, 9:16 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: The fuel returned to the truckers by the police is contaminated with water. About 50% water.

The fascism in Ottawa is strong.; 2/10/22, 9:32 PM
tim in vermont said...: "but for a lot of people, they prove the opposite, how much we love order. "

Remember that guy who got elected by making the trains run on time?; 2/10/22, 9:59 PM
Richard Dillman said...: The ABA , which accredits law schools, is now moving to require that all law schools require course work in race and bias (CRT) in order to be accredited. See William Jacobson’s article on this topic on “Real Clear Politics.” Instapundit also links to the article today.; 2/10/22, 10:13 PM
tim in vermont said...: Streets packed with supporters as the French convoy for freedom rolls into Lyon en route to Paris and onto Brussels. The Europe convoy starts tommorow and will continue untill all mandates are dropped for good.

If only everybody would obey!; 2/10/22, 10:46 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: Mazda cars (2014 to 2017 model years) that were listening to KUOW (NPR station) on HD radio on January 30 got more than they could handle. The broadcast sent out a file that the entertainment system couldn't handle and effectively fried the entertainment system. Now, the center screen won't fully boot up and flickers. The only radio station that plays is KUOW. The cost of a new entertainment module is $1,500 and they're not available due to supply chain issues.

Don't you just love NPR? Not only do they broadcast fake news, they can fry a cars entertainment system. Such a great government benefit, right?; 2/10/22, 11:00 PM
William said...: There's a lengthy profile of Amy Coney Barrett in this week's The New Yorker. The writer, Margaret Talbot, is critical of Barrett's reasoning and some of her decisions. Talbot is afraid that we're in peril of living in an authoritarian theocracy when Barrett's ideas reach full fruition....It's not surprising that a New Yorker writer would present such a piece, but what was surprising is how the writer, perhaps reluctantly, detailed the exemplary life Barrett has lived. I'm sure the writer would have dearly loved to report on some angry outburst in court or some dark moment in high school, but apparently Amy Coney Barrett is pretty near perfect. I'm not being sarcastic. She really is. Straight A's all the way through school. Highly regarded as a teacher by both students and peers. Conscientious and loving mother of a special needs kid and two Haitian adoptees. The woman is truly admirable in every dimension. If I had read this in the National Review, I would have chalked it up as a puff piece. But here in the context of a New Yorker profile where the writer is at pains to reveal the deficits and dangers of Barrett's reasoning, the raw facts of Barrett's life shine through all the more. I think the Vatican should open a file on her. It would be kind of neat to have a canonized saint sitting on the Supreme Court.; 2/10/22, 11:10 PM
Mason G said...: "Today, the Ontario government went to court to freeze the $8 Million raised for the truckers via GiveSendGo. Order was granted."

GiveSendGo posted on twitter:

Know this! Canada has absolutely ZERO jurisdiction over how we manage our funds here at GiveSendGo. All funds for EVERY campaign on GiveSendGo flow directly to the recipients of those campaigns, not least of which is The Freedom Convoy campaign.; 2/10/22, 11:11 PM
MadTownGuy said...: Linked on another blog:

A Night With the 'Untouchables'

"I live in downtown Ottawa, right in the middle of the trucker convoy protest. They are literally camped out below my bedroom window. My new neighbours moved in on Friday and they seem determined to stay. I have read a lot about what my new neighbours are supposedly like, mostly from reporters and columnists who write from distant vantage points somewhere in the media heartland of Canada. Apparently the people who inhabit the patch of asphalt next to my bedroom are white supremacists, racists, hatemongers, pseudo-Trumpian grifters, and even QAnon-style nutters. I have a perfect view down Kent Street – the absolute ground zero of the convoy. In the morning, I see some protesters emerge from their trucks to stretch their legs, but mostly throughout the day they remain in their cabs honking their horns. At night I see small groups huddled in quiet conversations in their new found companionship. There is no honking at night. What I haven’t noticed, not even once, are reporters from any of Canada’s news agencies walking among the trucks to find out who these people are. So last night, I decided to do just that – I introduced myself to my new neighbours..."

A good read.; 2/11/22, 6:15 AM
walter said...: " apparently Amy Coney Barrett is pretty near perfect."
That's how she got initial support. But now...; 2/11/22, 2:31 PM
farmgirl said...: Oh, MadTownGuy.
Thank you very much.

Honk. Honk.; 2/11/22, 7:50 PM