Althouse: Sunrise — 6:55, 7:09.

March 25, 2022

Sunrise — 6:55, 7:09.

Talk about whatever you want in the comments.

44 comments:

Josephbleau said...: A horizontal bar of red sunrise, like an LED volume bar. Probably a subclass of other classes of sunsets. Our Hostess should document the classes of sunrise again, for us and our posterity, like the Richter scale.

In my professional life, the one thing that POed me the most was some vacuum skull pedant who asked me to "document" a 12 page proposal!; 3/25/22, 7:42 PM
wild chicken said...: I'm losing my eyesight and may soon be unable to read. So I'm trying to get into audio books and bought Zuckerman Unbound, performed by some actor. Feh, he hammed it up too much.

Then I heard ten minutes of Philip Roth reading from an early book of his. He was fabulous. I'd give anything to hear him read sn entire work. Too late now!

They say authors aren't good at reading themselves but I say BS.

Does anyone do this?; 3/25/22, 8:07 PM
Clyde said...: Wow! St. Peter's upsets Purdue! Gotta love it!; 3/25/22, 8:24 PM
Will Cate said...: Saw Bob Dylan last night at the Fox Theater in Atlanta. Not for no reason is it called the Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour, as he did most of the songs from that album. From the classic canon, highlights for me were (1) a go-go rock version of "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" and (2) a barn-burning rocked-up version of "Gotta Serve Somebody." No encore, which was unusual, at least compared to the other dozen or so times I've seen him.; 3/25/22, 8:42 PM
Achilles said...: Joe Biden is trying to start WW3.

Just told the 82nd they are going to Ukraine.

They impeached Trump because he kept this war from happening. They have wanted war all along and every time they are in power they start them.; 3/25/22, 8:59 PM
Josephbleau said...: "I'm losing my eyesight and may soon be unable to read. "

Mucho simpatico mi amigo. I can think of nothing worse, but please, live on. Find happiness instead of pain.; 3/25/22, 9:06 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Now that the Hunter’s laptop has been deemed real by the NYT, (Althouse paper of record) where does it fall in the mal-dis-misinformation sweepstakes? Thank god we have the Darkhorse podcast to decipher such riddles.

Copy pasta to your browser 👉🏽 https://youtu.be/OnkK07UekiE; 3/25/22, 9:13 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: As some of you probably know, Nicolas Cage (the actor) is some sort of mythical figure on the internet, with his own popular subreddit and everything. So he, Nicolas Cage made a video replying to fans on the internet.

Copy pasta to your browser 👉🏽 https://youtu.be/UwWFd_9fUYM; 3/25/22, 9:38 PM
Owen said...: Wild chicken: prayers up for your sight.; 3/25/22, 9:54 PM
Howard said...: The 82nd isn't going to Ukraine and to Achilles great sadness and disappointment, Russian Army isn't going to Kyiv.

Your Stalinist team is losing Achilles. Trump told Vlad it was gonna be a cakewalk and instead it's a meat grinder. Too bad Donald wasn't successful in his campaign to destroy NATO and cut off weapon sales to Ukraine. He better hire a food taster because Putin don't play.; 3/25/22, 10:24 PM
n.n said...: Joe Biden is trying to start WW3.

The Biden/Maidan/Slavic Spring and 82... 83 trimesters of waging war against Ukrainians. First, in Crimea to force natives to take a knee and share responsibility for expelling Russian presence. Then, in Donbas, because they had the audacity and means to resist assaults by a Kiev-aligned military and paramilitary axis. Zelensky had over 8 trimesters to offer reconciliation remediation to Ukrainians affected by the Spring, and seems obstinate to not only progress the war, but use Western military weapons and technology (NATO by way of Afghanistan?) to purse redistributive (e.g. natural resources a la South Africa) and retributive (e.g. wealth a la America) change. This is his Choice.; 3/25/22, 10:36 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: Hate to tell you this Howard, but Joe "Two Scoops" Biden is an honest politician. Once Vlad bought Ol' Two Scoops, Ol' Two Scoops has stayed bought. Witness OTS's veto of the MIG29s going to Ukraine. Vlad would not like that, so it had to be stopped.

"For OTS is an honestman." To paraphrase Marc Antony in Julius Caesar.; 3/25/22, 10:44 PM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...: Of course the 82nd isn’t going to the Ukraine. Babbling is all Biden has left. There’s no way the FSB doesn’t know every detail of the Biden’s corruption in the Ukraine. Ceding even the pretense of rationality is Biden’s escape hatch.; 3/25/22, 10:44 PM
rcommal said...: https://apnews.com/article/e2044f117e4aa92566b313144fbee285; 3/25/22, 11:07 PM
rcommal said...: ^
Foo Fighters drummer dies at 50.; 3/25/22, 11:09 PM
lavinia said...: Sometimes these photos just take my break away.
Thank you.; 3/25/22, 11:15 PM
Gahrie said...: Foo Fighters drummer dies at 50.

Taylor Hawkins. RIP

(Dave's fine..he's a drummer too); 3/25/22, 11:29 PM
rcommal said...: Profoundly I hope that Lavinia’s “break” was intentional, although “breath” works, too. Lovely, powerful comment.; 3/25/22, 11:31 PM
wildswan said...: Wild Chicken
Sorry to hear about your eyes. I had a scare about mine several months ago so I know it's a weight.
Some things I found out then -
I know we don't like this service but there's ways to get Siri to look up stuff and to take notes and call people
And the libraries aren't great on books any more but the librarians are outstanding on getting access for people; 3/26/22, 1:47 AM
gadfly said...: Fragging is any means used to deliberately and directly cause the death of members of a military unit but usually refers to attacking higher ranked leaders. In Viet Nam, the weapon of choice was the fragmentation grenade. Now from the Daily Beast:

Ukrainian journalist Roman Tsymbaliuk reported Wednesday that two tactical groups of Russian soldiers in Makarov, in the Kyiv region, lost at least half of their men in battles against Ukrainian forces.

One of the Russian soldiers “blamed the commander of the group, Col. Yury Medvedev, for the deaths of his friends,” Tsymbaliuk wrote on Facebook.

“Having waited for the right moment, during battle, he ran over the commander with a tank as he stood next to him, injuring both his legs. Now Col. Medvedev is in a hospital in Belarus."; 3/26/22, 1:55 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: wild chicken... sorry to hear about your vision. Perhaps this may prove helpful.
https://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks
Our faculties are on "temporary loan from God". Gee, who said that?; 3/26/22, 5:38 AM
Humperdink said...: Howard: "Too bad Donald wasn't successful in his campaign to destroy NATO..."

Trump insisted NATO pay their fair share. Howard, you are not an honest broker. I have yet to engage a lefty in debate who doesn't resort to this style. (Read: lies).; 3/26/22, 6:00 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: A theoretical... https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-takeover-of-americas-legal-system?s=r; 3/26/22, 6:05 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Alarmism amped up to 11: "ScienceMoms.com"

Women Scientists Launch Campaign Aimed at Mothers

"Sixty-six percent of Americans are worried about global warming. Among moms, that number is even higher.

“We know that climate change is a threat to all people, and in particular our kids,” says Melissa Burt.

Burt has a young daughter and she’s a climate scientist at Colorado State University. She says that although many moms are worried about global warming, many do not feel equipped to take action.

“They don’t have the resources to understand the climate issue completely and aren’t sure what they can actually do to tackle it,” she says.

So Burt and a group of other women scientists teamed up to create a campaign called Science Moms.

“Moms tend to trust other moms, and we as scientists want to be that credible neutral messenger … to educate moms, to inspire moms, and really empower them to use their voices,” she says.

On its website, the Science Moms group provides short videos, debunks climate myths and offers ways to get involved. For example, it includes a sample letter to send to a member of Congress.

Burt says the website is designed for moms.

“But we want all parents to have a better understanding of what climate change is all about,” she says, “and then get all people to really want to take action in that way.”; 3/26/22, 6:29 AM
wendybar said...: Howard must watch CNN or MSNBC, because he has no clue what Trump did and how it was the RIGHT thing for our country. Because....TRUMP...TRUMP....TRUMP. Get over your fixation on him Howard.; 3/26/22, 6:47 AM
Jaq said...: Howard has become irrational.; 3/26/22, 7:00 AM
wendybar said...: Our tax dollars shouldn't be an ATM for the rest of the world.- George Papodopoulos; 3/26/22, 7:13 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Um... become?; 3/26/22, 8:13 AM
wild chicken said...: Wildswan, I'm not an Apple person no matter how hard I try. One reason I kept sending iPhones back was Althouse blog would not word wrap in the browser! Outrageous!

So I'm trying to make do with Alexa, Google asst etc. There's so much to learn, even though I've used tech for so long it seems overwhelming.

And yeah, reading is just about everything to me anymore.; 3/26/22, 8:21 AM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: Howard:

Instapundit summarizes well:

So is it fair to ask if Biden is on the payroll of Putin? As Walter Russell Mead wrote in 2017:

If Trump were the Manchurian candidate that people keep wanting to believe that he is, here are some of the things he’d be doing:

Limiting fracking as much as he possibly could
Blocking oil and gas pipelines
Opening negotiations for major nuclear arms reductions
Cutting U.S. military spending
Trying to tamp down tensions with Russia’s ally Iran.

That's everything Joe "Two Scoops" Biden's been doing. Putin bought him and Two Scoops is staying bought. For he is an honest politician.; 3/26/22, 8:52 AM
Chris Lopes said...: "The 82nd isn't going to Ukraine and to Achilles great sadness and disappointment, Russian Army isn't going to Kyiv."

Since you missed the point again, let me help you out. The senile POTUS told troops that they were going to the Ukraine. They aren't of course, as not even Biden's handlers are stupid enough to get involved in a shooting war with another nuclear power. Biden said it though, which demonstrates his grasp of reality is sketchy at best. Oh and here's the important part, he's actually President now, not Orange the Clown.; 3/26/22, 9:02 AM
Rusty said...: tim in vermont said...
"Howard has become irrational."
Mmm. He's always been half a bubble off of plumb.; 3/26/22, 9:47 AM
Michael K said...: Oh and here's the important part, he's actually President now, not Orange the Clown.

Which, no doubt pleases you as you prefer 15% inflation and $10 gas.; 3/26/22, 10:20 AM
Michael K said...: Howard does get a lot of the story backwards. Like who gave Ukraine lethal weapons and who was president when Russia DID NOT invade.

It' OK. The next election will give Howard more to whine about. Meanwhile, his child porn advocate will get confirmed.; 3/26/22, 10:24 AM
Drago said...: tim in vermont: "Howard has become irrational."

Howard simply gets up each day and looks at what the dems are doing and then pulls an elementary school twisting of logic to project all the dems actions and results onto republicans.

Howard is still pushing hoax pee tape lunacy.; 3/26/22, 10:57 AM
stunned said...: In Spain, soaring prices fuel lorry strike, growing social unrest. The comment section under the video is telling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0Udry9x97s; 3/26/22, 12:04 PM
stunned said...: In Spain, soaring prices fuel lorry strike, growing social unrest. The comment section under the video is telling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0Udry9x97s; 3/26/22, 12:06 PM
farmgirl said...: Wild chicken- I feel your pain.

Last July I lost the majority of my sight in my left eye.
The specialist diagnosed me w/NAION. My optic nerve stroked out and is “mostly dead”. I still can “see” out of it, but I wouldn’t be able to read or drive. It’s like seeing through a frosted window- very sparkly- and when my eyes are closed, the slightest sound causes that one to flash. Very weird, but kinda cool. It could happen to my right eye, as well. Life is quite the poker game.

I’m lucky to get Althouse on my iPhone.

The specialist did say, in reviewing my CT- that I had a beautiful brain. I told him that was the nicest thing anyone has ever told me- lol.

Jordan Peterson reads his books. I was thinking of getting his audio b/c I don’t mind listening to him- I don’t mind his distinctive voice.; 3/26/22, 12:24 PM
Mr. Majestyk said...: Farmgirl, a similar thing happened to me two years ago in my right eye. Fortunately, i can still see out of my right eye mostly. It's mainly the focal point that is blurry. Annoying. Sadly, the CT specialist never complimented my brain. 😞 He also scanned my eyeballs. Told me to not move my eyes. Which, of course, made me want to move my eyes the whole time. That was torture.; 3/26/22, 2:06 PM
Narr said...: That's awful, wild chicken and farmgirl (and anyone I've left out). My mother had macular degeneration and I'm a good candidate, but so far so good. I hope you can find some workarounds.

My wife's hearing is bad and getting worse; things like that can be hard on all involved.; 3/26/22, 2:49 PM
Chris Lopes said...: "Which, no doubt pleases you as you prefer 15% inflation and $10 gas."

Not liking Donald Trump isn't the same as liking Joe Biden. I'm not sure anyone could have predicted the level of cluster frack we have experienced in the first year of this administration. Obama was right (stopped clock and all that), never underestimate Joe Biden's ability to fuck things up. This shit show is beyond beyond parody.; 3/26/22, 4:56 PM
farmgirl said...: Barr- I bet.
I have older friends and the husband lost his hearing. She’ll be doing dishes and she’ll say something or answer him and he’ll say:”you’re talking to the wall, Claudette…”

Weirdly enough, their grandson is deaf. So, they do know sign. God’s touch, right there.; 3/26/22, 8:38 PM
farmgirl said...: That’s Narr.
That’s autocorrect for you.; 3/26/22, 8:42 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: Two Scoops was obviously senile while he was running for president. He told everyone that he would shut down the petroleum industry. The Congress, both Republican and Democrats, spent money like it grew on trees through out 2020. I predicted we'd have inflation after the first Covid relief packages.

The Democrat governors shut down their states for "two weeks to flatten the curve" then refused to let all businesses reopen. One of my favorite restaurants, Snuffies (I-5 and US-20) was forced to shut because they had the audacity to continue operating while King Jay Inslee of Washington said no.

It was the Democrat Congress that then double downed and spent another $2T on "infrastructure."

The Democrats increased the money supply by 25% in a year's time. Of course we're having inflation. Two Scoops dissed Milton Friedman; Friedman is laughing from Heaven at Ol' Two Scoops now while Two Scoops flounders and his handlers have no ideas on how to do anything right.

It was predictable. You only had to listen to Two Scoops and the Looting Democrats. They told us they were going to screw us over.; 3/26/22, 11:01 PM