Althouse: Sunrise — 6:19, 6:20.

September 3, 2022

Sunrise — 6:19, 6:20.

Talk about whatever you like in the comments.

48 comments:

Howard said...: Mare's tails above the Pond this morning. We were stopped at the meadow and got a fly-by and greeting from a great blue heron. We were in his fishing spot. A pile of submerged boulders we stand on. The little fish there nibble on us occasionally, startling the girls. He landed nearby and kept squawking and ruffling his neck feathers. Storm coming tomorrow afternoon. We need the rain as the Pond is down 15-inches. Water is getting colder every day. Some leaves on some trees are turning.; 9/3/22, 6:01 PM
Inga said...: A pastel contrast to yesterdays red sun with dark skies, lovely.; 9/3/22, 6:02 PM
michaele said...: Love the bonsai impression of the overhanging tree branch...very artistic.; 9/3/22, 6:03 PM
Mason G said...: Another MAGA extremist?

https://twitter.com/i/status/1565889800594341889

Take a look.; 9/3/22, 6:29 PM
Narr said...: Oh!; 9/3/22, 7:06 PM
narciso said...: Before maga it was thd tea party that caused the agita

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UCDxXJSucF4; 9/3/22, 7:31 PM
Jupiter said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 9/3/22, 7:34 PM
mongo said...: My schedule doesn’t allow me to read this blog until evening. I occasionally want to make a comment and I wonder if there is any point in doing so is the item was posted at 8 am and I’m reading it at 8 pm. What do you folks think?; 9/3/22, 7:35 PM
William50 said...: BLM Leader Accused of Stealing $10 Million From the So-Called Charity

If BLM Was Honest--Awaken with JP; 9/3/22, 7:58 PM
michaele said...: Mason G, thank you you for sharing that link. It was very powerful.; 9/3/22, 8:15 PM
Breezy said...: Tree framing is gorgeous…; 9/3/22, 8:15 PM
Lurker21 said...: Two COVID era Steven Soderbergh movies. Both above average. No Sudden Move was a crime story set in 1950s Detroit. Great recreation of the setting. A little disappointing with the clichés and sudden reversals and double crosses. I might have told them to change the script but it was watchable.

Let Them All Talk. Meryl Streep is a famous writer who takes a transatlantic voyage with her nephew and her two closest friends. Good story, lots of drama, story by Deborah Eisenberg (the unseen Debbie of My Dinner with Andre I believe) but with largely improvised dialogue. It raised many interesting questions, but I didn't love the ending.

Drive My Car was an excellent Japanese picture, if you can manage to sit through the first two hours of nothing happening.; 9/3/22, 8:32 PM
Narr said...: mongo, I will check any thread that I commented on for two or three days. When a cafe' post opens up, you can always drag an earlier topic in.

So I say go ahead and comment even if you're a day late, or wait for an opening later.; 9/3/22, 9:11 PM
Mason G said...: michaele-

Glad you took a look. It's not all bad news, all the time.; 9/3/22, 9:24 PM
wildswan said...: "mongo said...
My schedule doesn’t allow me to read this blog until evening. I occasionally want to make a comment and I wonder if there is any point in doing so is the item was posted at 8 am and I’m reading it at 8 pm. What do you folks think?"

Comments are sort of free form, don't you think? I generally read the last 3 to 5 posts with all their comments at the time - which varies - when I read the blog because I like finding out, unfiltered, what people are thinking which, to me, is what the comments are. Sparks triggered off by the post.; 9/3/22, 9:30 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: ooooooo
.......
ahhhhhhhhh; 9/3/22, 9:33 PM
wildswan said...: I thought it was interesting to hear KJP, the Press Secretary, talking about how members of minority groups are extremists when you think about the push Biden made to get minorities with diverse, presumable non-majority, viewpoints as Cabinet members and as his Press Secretary.; 9/3/22, 9:46 PM
Jupiter said...: Hey, Joe, where you goin' with that Constitution in your hand?
I say, Hey, Joe, where you goin' with that Constitution in your hand?
He said, I'm goin' down to Florida, caught Trump and DeSantis spreadin' freedom through the Land.
Yeah, I'm goin' down to Florida, I caught Trump and DeSantis. they're spreadin' freedom through the Land.; 9/3/22, 10:09 PM
gpm said...: >>My schedule doesn’t allow me to read this blog until evening. I occasionally want to make a comment and I wonder if there is any point in doing so is the item was posted at 8 am and I’m reading it at 8 pm. What do you folks think?

I am in a similar situation. I almost never comment on anything political. I do put up an occasional, belated comment on more cultural or other stuff (which, pre-Trump, used to be more the meat of the blog). For the most part, I don't know to what extent anyone ever sees or reads those comments (and I often don't bother to look back and see if anyone responded), although there has been at least one occasion where I answered somebody's legal question (that hadn't been addressed before) and got a thankful response. Once or twice, I've also gotten a response from Althouse. It would be nice to actually participate in a discussion, but I just feel (oh, that word) that I have something I want to say and am not in a position to enter into the main conversation.

--gpm; 9/3/22, 10:40 PM
Jupiter said...: "My schedule doesn’t allow me to read this blog until evening. I occasionally want to make a comment and I wonder if there is any point in doing so is the item was posted at 8 am and I’m reading it at 8 pm. What do you folks think?"

In "Caravans", James Michener describes the approach of the Afghan government in the 60's to building a dam. Dumptrucks are filled with rocks at a quarry, and then drive to a precipice overlooking the site of the planned dam, where they dump their load, and then go back for another. The rocks are washed away by the river. The plan, is that at some point, a few rocks will not be washed away. Eventually, there will be a footing for a dam.

Was there any point to the first load of rocks? Or the second?

Given what happened to the various governments of Afghanistan, was there any point to any of it?

Astrophysicists tell us, that in a billion years or so, the Sun will expand to be a red giant, like Betelgeuse. It's surface will expand to around the orbit of Jupiter (ahem). Unless the Earth has been moved in the meantime, that will certainly eliminate all life on Earth, including any descendants we might have. So, what's the point?

Hell of a book, by the way.; 9/3/22, 10:50 PM
Wandering Badger said...: Mason G - thanks for sharing. This video has to be shared – this defense of “MAGA” by a recent naturalized citizen should be front and center of the conservative movement. I wish our politicians could be so concise and specific.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1565889800594341889; 9/3/22, 11:20 PM
walter said...: Trump's biggest weakmess amongst supporters isthe jabs.
Come on all you Dems, hit it!
(circular finger-pointing ensues); 9/4/22, 1:14 AM
gadfly said...: Since the subpoena authorizing the search of any and all Trump properties for government documents, I would suggest that the next location should be Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, NJ where Ivana Trump was buried in July.

The exceptionately large ornate coffin used to house her ashes required ten men to carry it.; 9/4/22, 1:18 AM
Ann Althouse said...: There was a big storm later in the day, and I knew it was coming, so I had big hopes for a "red sky in the morning." But no, we got this cutesy storybook type sunrise.

The reason it's behind the trees is just that the interesting part of the clouds was over to the right of where the sun was supposed to appear (but was obscured by thick blue-gray clouds).

In the winter, the sun rises in that area, but the leaves are gone, so it's not obscured.; 9/4/22, 3:23 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "My schedule doesn’t allow me to read this blog until evening. I occasionally want to make a comment and I wonder if there is any point in doing so is the item was posted at 8 am and I’m reading it at 8 pm. What do you folks think?"

Yes, the discussions go on that long, and many people who have participated have clicked the box (under the compose window) that signs up for emailed follow-up comments.

People are often eager to see who responds to them, so, especially if you want to react to another commenter, your comment is important.

I go through and approve the comments, so I will see your comment even it it's on a post that is days, weeks, months, or years old.; 9/4/22, 3:25 AM
Ann Althouse said...: Sometimes when people comment in the evening, they choose to do it in the open thread (the last post of the day, usually). It's okay to comment about a previous comments thread in this place too.; 9/4/22, 3:27 AM
Saint Croix said...: Does the New York Times want to blot out the sun?

Discuss.

Discuss some more.

How dumb can these fuckers be?

Maybe the asteroids will save us.

Have you cancelled your subscription yet?

Listen to your readers!; 9/4/22, 4:06 AM
Saint Croix said...: Does the New York Times want to blot out the sun?

Discuss.

Discuss some more.

How dumb can these fuckers be?

Maybe the asteroids will save us.

Have you cancelled your subscription yet?

Listen to your readers!; 9/4/22, 4:06 AM
Saint Croix said...: Does the New York Times want to blot out the sun?

Discuss.

Discuss some more.

How dumb can these fuckers be?

Maybe the asteroids will save us.

Have you cancelled your subscription yet?

Listen to your readers!; 9/4/22, 4:07 AM
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Saint Croix said...: New York Times reporter asks a reasonable question.

Any Republican: "Your newspaper wants to stab little babies, castrate little boys, and blot out the sun."

New York Times reporter: "Yes, but..."

Any Republican: "Your credibility is beneath zero!"

New York Times reporter: "My question is reasonable!"

Any Republican: "None of my voters are reading your insane fantasies. None of them!"

New York Times report: "Let me repeat my very reasonable question."

Any Republican: "You want to stab little babies, castrate little boys, and blot out the fucking sun."; 9/4/22, 4:38 AM
Humperdink said...: When some political operatives speak, they just rub me the wrong way. Not their content, just their manner of presentation. Like an ick bomb. Carville was that way. Now the Bidas Touch™ administration has resurrected John Podesta from the bone yard.; 9/4/22, 4:57 AM
Tina Trent said...: Carville was sort of fascinatingly grotesque. And his wife, GOP consultant Mary Matalin, was so grotesque she appeared on a talk show once in open-toe sandals, her toenails long as talons and visibly scraggly.

You have to picture them crouching naked on the floor of their $1.5 million Georgetown townhouse gnawing on pig offal after taping The McLaughlin Group.

They just gave off that vibe. But I'd take ten of them for one Jon Meacham.; 9/4/22, 6:00 AM
Humperdink said...: Recall when Gov. Newsome (D-Blackout) touted California as more free than Florida. A few weeks later he shuts down the power grid. California, led by the "best and the dimmest", so to speak.; 9/4/22, 6:51 AM
wendybar said...: Mason G said...
Another MAGA extremist?

https://twitter.com/i/status/1565889800594341889

Take a look.

9/3/22, 6:29 PM

I watched this, this morning before I saw your comment. What a guy!! I wish EVERYBODY would watch it.; 9/4/22, 7:06 AM
wendybar said...: Who knew Victor Davis Hanson was so funny???

https://twitter.com/CaraM7777/status/1565376276797554690?; 9/4/22, 8:47 AM
wendybar said...: No matter where we look these days, America is suffering.

https://amgreatness.com/2022/09/03/lets-call-out-the-elites-before-its-too-late/; 9/4/22, 9:09 AM
wendybar said...: Humperdink said...
Recall when Gov. Newsome (D-Blackout) touted California as more free than Florida. A few weeks later he shuts down the power grid. California, led by the "best and the dimmest", so to speak.

9/4/22, 6:51 AM

California is so bad, that his own IN LAWS up, and moved to Florida...Home of the FREE!!; 9/4/22, 9:12 AM
Joe Smith said...: 'Since the subpoena authorizing the search of any and all Trump properties for government documents, I would suggest that the next location should be Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, NJ where Ivana Trump was buried in July.'

Ha! Hilarious...

How the hell is he going to dig them up without anyone noticing?

And if he doesn't need them, a match and lighter fluid would do just as well.

Just when I think the left can't get any dumber, they never disappoint me...; 9/4/22, 10:14 AM
Lurker21 said...: I wonder if there is any point in doing so is the item was posted at 8 am and I’m reading it at 8 pm.

You do it for you. Put your message in a bottle and see if anyone answers.

But beware. If you end up with a hundred billion bottles washed up on the shore, it will take some time to clean up.; 9/4/22, 10:49 AM
Saint Croix said...: It is Sept 4 and I have already burned up my free NYT articles documenting the "blot out the sun" insanity.

So whatever journalism you're planning to do the rest of the month, NYT, I'm not reading it.

If you want me to actually give you money -- and I know you're not familiar with capitalism, but that is how it works -- I have a suggestion.

Stack all your sane and reasonable journalism early in the month. You don't need to rush into humanity destruction so early in the process. Be patient. You need to suck me in with quality journalism! Right now I feel like your damn pay wall is keeping me on the sane side.

I'm sure there's got to be some smart and helpful analysis in your fish wrapper but I have to work too hard to find that shit. Later Althouse will be linking to one of your many smart articles and I'm all, "Can't read that shit." Because I spent up all my freebies documenting your insane fucking plan to cool down the earth with smog from smog guns paid for by taxpayers. It's so beyond stupid I don't know what to say. You are Below Biden. That's where you are. Why would I pay to go Below Biden?; 9/4/22, 11:25 AM
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Anne-I-Am said...: Those pictures are particularly beautiful to me. Thank you for sharing them.; 9/4/22, 12:27 PM
Mikey NTH said...: It is getting cold and the sailing and kayaking days are ending.

That's what the picture says to me.; 9/4/22, 6:01 PM
Mikey NTH said...: It is getting cold and the sailing and kayaking days are ending.

That's what the picture says to me.; 9/4/22, 6:11 PM