Althouse: 7:12 a.m. — but the red dot is not the sun.

March 22, 2023

7:12 a.m. — but the red dot is not the sun.

100% cloud cover today at sunrise.

Write about whatever you want in the comments.

29 comments:

Gospace said...: Gee, the Grand Jury didn't meet today...

Wonder what that means...; 3/22/23, 5:16 PM
Narr said...: Had to Flickr to see the red dot.

When will Alvin Bragg's 15 be over?; 3/22/23, 5:22 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: Sunny day today. Shirt sleeve temperatures.; 3/22/23, 5:34 PM
rhhardin said...: Brillenbrillanz n. the sudden innervating clarity afforded by new glasses.

New glasses arrived from China today.; 3/22/23, 5:58 PM
phantommut said...: Just bought a back of pink Himalayan salt. Noticed it has a "Sell By" date of 2030.

It's a back of crushed rock. "Sell By" should be "Before the sun goes red giant."; 3/22/23, 6:04 PM
phantommut said...: Gee, the Grand Jury didn't meet today...

Wonder what that means...

It means the FBI hasn't had time to get its infiltrators and patsies in place.; 3/22/23, 6:08 PM
Scott Patton said...: Kramer spotted it; 3/22/23, 6:25 PM
n.n said...: Kenny Rogers Chicken; 3/22/23, 6:39 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: STORMY just window dressing,(trump lawyer may have to take a back seat conflict issue HERE) Fani got the goods, possible RICO and she takes no prisoner's and D.C. district judge Beryl Howell ruled that prosecutors in special counsel Jack Smith's office had made a "prima facie showing that the former president had committed criminal violations," according to sources who described her Friday order, and that attorney-client privileges invoked by two of his lawyers, Corcoran and Jennifer Little, could therefore be pierced. They are just warming up. Good TV while we are away at Casino, hope our room has DVR. And INSTANT COFFEE loaded as 2-1 favorite for Louisiana Derby Saturday at an extended 1 3/16 in a field of 12.I have fair price for COFFEE at 7-2 and will pass race if he stays at 2-1 though I believe he can win but odds don't present good value especially in such a large field. COFFEE needs 8 more points to qualify for Derby spot in May. Lot of action this week! Hope to see some friends from the tri state area this weekend while we are on the road chillin!; 3/22/23, 9:04 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Whatever it was, just remember they had good intentions, they meant well, or something

Covid is like Trump. Everybody is anxious to move on.; 3/22/23, 9:18 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Business Insider: "CEOs say thousands of laid-off tech staff just did 'fake work'"

A tirade on fake work came last week from Keith Rabois, the PayPal Mafia member, technology investor, the current chief executive of e-commerce firm OpenStore.

Speaking from Miami at an event hosted by banking firm Evercore, Rabois said big tech firms had hired too many people in pursuit of the "vanity metric" of headcount. They brought on so-so, spoiled workers in order to look bigger than rivals, and to stop those workers from achieving anything useful at a competitor.

link to the whole thing; 3/22/23, 9:44 PM
tim in vermont said...: After my two week social media fast, I have decided to give it up.

Here is an interesting video on internet addiction, dopamine, and social media. I like life better freed from the phone.

https://youtu.be/QmOF0crdyRU

Those ready to hear it can make of it what they will, children should be taught this stuff.; 3/22/23, 9:49 PM
wildswan said...: A soldier in Bakhmut

https://twitter.com/RomanTrokhymets/status/1638456804505014272; 3/22/23, 9:50 PM
Big Mike said...: The other day my son amused his infant daughter -- and himself -- by playing a YouTube video of the drinking song from "The Student Prince" as she downed her bottle. That led me earlier tonight to play some more songs from "The Student Prince," including "Gaudeamus.

Wait, what? Vivat Academia? Vivant professores? Not this academia. Not these professors. The world always has a need for smart people who can do things. Dumb shits who concoct bizarre theories that make people's lives worse rather than better when those theories escape into the real world? No, we need none of them at all.; 3/22/23, 10:46 PM
Quaestor said...: "It's a [bag] of crushed rock. 'Sell By' should be 'Before the sun goes red giant.'"

Wellllll... You don't really know what the pink stuff is, now do ya?; 3/22/23, 10:50 PM
Humperdink said...: "Math: $18 trillion in (bank) deposits, $125 billion in the deposit insurance fund." (Zero Hedge)

"Yesterday, @SecYellen made reassuring comments that led the market and depositors to believe that all deposits were now implicitly guaranteed. That coupled with a leak suggesting that @USTreasury, @FDICgov and @SecYellen were looking for a way to guarantee all deposits reassured the banking sector and depositors.

This afternoon, @SecYellen walked back yesterday’s implicit support for small banks and depositors, while making it explicit that systemwide deposit guarantees were not being considered."

No kidding.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bill-ackman-blames-janet-yellen-restarting-bank-run; 3/23/23, 2:09 AM
Readering said...: UK Guardian reports that sitting President Grant was stopped multiple times in DC for speeding in his carriage. Once was arrested (by a black p.o.), taken to the station, and cited for $20 ($500 today). But failed to show for trial next day.; 3/23/23, 4:02 AM
gadfly said...: Humperdink:

The bottom line: If a bailout doesn't cost anything, is it really a bailout?; 3/23/23, 5:39 AM
rehajm said...: Kennedy: “Do you know what a Brady motion is?”

Biden judicial nominee: “It’s not coming to mind… I believe that the Brady case involved something regarding the Second Amendment

If they had any sense they’d be embarrassed…; 3/23/23, 5:50 AM
wendybar said...: "The reason we have a corrupt, incompetent president is because of all the lies about Trump, and endless investigations in search of a crime.

But Trump should shut up!"

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/03/national_review_claims_a_second_trump_term_would_be_bonkers.html; 3/23/23, 5:58 AM
rhhardin said...: Fox News Ratings Plunge After Hiring Non-Blonde Anchor With No Cleavage (Babylon Bee)

That was my impression though I thought up-the-dress shots were more Fox's signature.; 3/23/23, 6:21 AM
rhhardin said...: If you insure all deposits it doesn't cost you anything because there are no bank runs. If anything, it costs you less.

What it does do is introduce a new instability, the ponzi-scheme bank, but that takes time to start up and won't cost you anything for a while. In the meantime you have time to think of something to short-circuit it.; 3/23/23, 6:23 AM
BillieBob Thorton said...: We just dodged a bullet.

"A massive eruption of solar material, known as a coronal mass ejection or CME, was detected escaping from the Sun at 11:36 p.m. EDT on March 12, 2023."

https://blogs.nasa.gov/sunspot/2023/03/14/a-powerful-solar-eruption-on-far-side-of-sun-still-impacted-earth/#:~:text=The%20Sun%20Spot-,A%20Powerful%20Solar%20Eruption%20on%20Far%20Side%20of%20Sun%20Still,of%20the%20Sun%20opposite%20Earth

Although it would have solved the whole global warming, climate change thing.; 3/23/23, 7:06 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: From a professional...
https://www.frontpagemag.com/auditing-bidens-victory/
Anomalies notwithstanding.; 3/23/23, 7:35 AM
Kai Akker said...: --- I have decided to give it up. [tim in vermont]

A wise call if you can succeed, IMO, Tim. I have started watching the video. Just wanted to write this comment now. I think you can find more satisfaction in some other activities, one or more of which you have mentioned along the way here. Much more satisfaction, I suspect. Good luck.; 3/23/23, 7:53 AM
Kai Akker said...: Big turn in the stock market yesterday after Fed Chair Powell's wishy-washy comments. From positive in the morning to -531 DJI close. Stocks were hitting a resistance point anyway, and the rally into the Fed meeting was like so many of the bear-market rallies we've seen -- based on false hopes the Fed was ready to start printing money again.

So the attempt to pin the selloff on Yellen, which I saw somewhere, seems bogus to me. Not that that is important. Mike Wilson of Morgan Stanley says market needs at least one more new low.; 3/23/23, 8:03 AM
rhhardin said...: Because the Afristocrisy seems to think that the two biggest problems facing black America [are] income inequality and systemic racism and that's why the two prime solutions are bigger government and better white people.

Delano Squires with Glenn Loury.; 3/23/23, 8:45 AM
wendybar said...: AS someone should. These little Activists will not make good lawyers.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/03/law-professor-might-report-the-stanford-law-students-who-shouted-down-judge-to-california-bar-association/; 3/23/23, 8:56 AM
Doug said...: Hey, Althouse, Stanford put your girl crush DEI functionary on leave. Those mean Stanford people!; 3/23/23, 12:01 PM