Althouse: Sunrise — 6:41, 6:55.

March 2, 2023

Sunrise — 6:41, 6:55.

The light changes from blue...

... to gray:

Talk about whatever you like in the comments.

39 comments:

Carol said...: Well Althouse formatting is good I'm Firefox.

Don't know why Chrome is freaking out.; 3/2/23, 5:33 PM
Dave Begley said...: These pixs make me want to get an iPhone 14.; 3/2/23, 5:40 PM
gilbar said...: Senate Unanimously Votes To Declassify Intel On COVID-19 Origins
The Senate voted unanimously Wednesday on a bill that requires the Director of National Intelligence to declassify all intelligence concerning the origin of COVID-19.

The “COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023,” introduced by Republican Sens. Josh Hawley and Mike Braun, was passed Wednesday night without objection.; 3/2/23, 5:49 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Musk Tweet: "Twice as many people died in Japan last year as were born."; 3/2/23, 6:02 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Twitter is saying "Justin Bieber still doesn’t realize he’s been vaccine injured"; 3/2/23, 6:04 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Oh Well...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11807897/Ex-Secret-Service-agents-reveal-Jimmy-Carter-actually-rude-time.html?ico=related-replace-2; 3/2/23, 6:27 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Here's your Trolls Ann,
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/03/02/twitter-files-government-funding-created-cottage-industry-of-disinformation-labs/; 3/2/23, 6:33 PM
rehajm said...: From the twitterverse: One of the main reasons people become politicians is they want access to the things rich people have but they lack the talent to achieve them. So they get elected and make the taxpayer pay; 3/2/23, 6:38 PM
dreams said...: Former Ky Governor and former Baseball commissioner sings the Old Kentucky Home at a UK basketball game.

A.B. "Happy" Chandler's Old Kentucky Home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=fsQj46swDvI&fbclid=IwAR3TA8icF6b2KHHMaXUJPy2ZLOIndGTbHV1_kzpSM4pFbgM_av5refzbMG8; 3/2/23, 6:42 PM
gspencer said...: With the Murdaugh verdict reached in a blazing three hours, now would be a great time to play Randy Newman's Cop Rock He's Guilty,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwz4k4n1ezM; 3/2/23, 6:49 PM
Original Mike said...: "The Senate voted unanimously Wednesday on a bill that requires the Director of National Intelligence to declassify all intelligence concerning the origin of COVID-19."

House passage should be a slam dunk, right?

Not that I expect the DNI to comply.; 3/2/23, 7:29 PM
Tom T. said...: The jury found Murdaugh guilty after only three hours of deliberation. Killed his wife and son. Interesting in an academic sense to wonder whether it was the drugs that stripped away his soul or if he was always a psychopath and just eventually lost control.; 3/2/23, 8:07 PM
AZ Bob said...: “He may be a bad person but that doesn’t make him a murderer.” Yeah but he’s a really bad person.; 3/2/23, 8:15 PM
William said...: I've read several bios of Stalin. Some historians believe that he engineered a bank heist in Tblisi. It netted tens of millions of dollars and was the biggest bank robbery on record at that time. There were some forty or so innocent bystanders who were killed during the robbery. Some other historians claim that there is no proof that Stalin was involved in that robbery....I would presume that if there was any evidence that Stalin was involved in the affair, Yagoda, the secret police chief, would have buried it and Yezhov would subsequently have buried Yagoda and his knowledge, and Beria, in his turn, would have hermetically sealed them both.....I think it will go that way with the Chinese lab leak. There's no one with first hand knowledge of that lab who survived that leak, and they did not die from the coronavirus.; 3/2/23, 8:33 PM
Creola Soul said...: It takes a jury about 35-45 minutes just to get organized, everyone go to the bathroom, smoke a cigarette (well, maybe not anymore), elect a foreman and have some perfunctory discussion. Then you take the first ballot. Here there were five counts so the last juror coming in damn near met the first one coming out.; 3/2/23, 9:08 PM
Drago said...: Good news Wyoming residents. Liz Cheney has decided to stay and live amongst her real constituents: the beltway consultants, lefty media and lefty academia in VA.

Such a cowgirl, eh? I'm betting the boots, jeans and hats are already at Goodwill.; 3/2/23, 9:21 PM
etbass said...: Just asked ChatGTP for a profile on Ann Althouse and in one second, I got this

Ann Althouse is an American legal scholar, commentator, and blogger. She was born on January 12, 1951, in Savannah, Georgia, and grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan in 1972 and her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 1975.

Althouse is currently a professor of law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she has been teaching since 1984. Her areas of expertise include constitutional law, feminist legal theory, and popular culture.

In addition to her academic work, Althouse is also well known for her blog, which she has been writing since 2004. The blog covers a wide range of topics, including politics, law, and popular culture. Althouse is known for her independent and often contrarian views, and her blog has attracted a large and devoted following.

Althouse has also written several books, including "What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias and the News" (2004) and "Bloggingheads.tv: An Oral History" (2017). She has appeared as a commentator on a variety of television and radio programs, including CNN, MSNBC, and National Public Radio.

Althouse has been married twice and has two children. She currently resides in Madison, Wisconsin.; 3/2/23, 9:42 PM
etbass said...: I think it is a serious misnomer to call the ChatGTP artificial intelligence. It is nothing more than a system that assimilates the information on the internet and then spouts it out with the bias of the programmers. It is programmed to ignore or diminish arguments contrary to the programmers’ views. It should be called something different than Artificial Intelligence, at least for now.

Just ask it to summarize the views against climate change and see what you get. The bias is obvious.; 3/2/23, 10:12 PM
Chest Rockwell said...: A 1972 live performance of Bonnie Raitt showed up in my music feed and it's fantastic.

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k2x8MSTwrJkoWiqBXw4hJ3M-vJshq-qL4; 3/2/23, 10:40 PM
gadfly said...: According to the NYT, Gym Jordan's paid-for whistleblowers struck out.

The first three witnesses to testify privately before the new Republican-led House committee investigating the “weaponization” of the federal government have offered little firsthand knowledge of any wrongdoing or violation of the law.

Instead, the trio appears to be a group of aggrieved former F.B.I. officials who have trafficked in right-wing conspiracy theories, including about the Jan. 6, 2021 attack at the Capitol, and received financial support from a top ally of former President Donald J. Trump.; 3/3/23, 2:56 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias and the News" is a book by Eric Alterman. Apparently, the chatbot is giving me credit for all the "Alt"s.

Maybe Alterman was born in Savannah.

Crazy stuff. They got some of it right... and they didn't insult me.; 3/3/23, 4:56 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "Bloggingheads.tv: An Oral History" is a funny idea for a book. Imagine if I'd devoted my time to such a thing.; 3/3/23, 4:57 AM
Original Mike said...: I remember when we were discussing Alterman proclaiming himself "in charge" of the internet. ChatGPT seems to just mash stuff together.; 3/3/23, 5:09 AM
wendybar said...: THIS!!!!

"America First patriots staunchly believe the Republican leadership does not care about us except when it needs money and essential volunteers during campaigns to do the grunt work. This is why the cycle never ends:

America First candidate runs in the primary.
GOP leadership pushes out America First candidate in the primary.
RINO is the general election candidate.
GOP says vote for the RINO since the Democrat candidate is worse.
RINO wins.
Patriots get angry with RINO’s actions and/or votes.
Repeat …."

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/03/been_there_done_that_not_doing_it_again.html; 3/3/23, 6:14 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Great album Chest! Way Back In 72

Bob's not dead!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvJjbMi-SPU; 3/3/23, 6:49 AM
Christopher B said...: ChatGPT seems to be an experiment designed to show that a million monkeys banging on typewriters would *never* produce Shakespeare.; 3/3/23, 6:52 AM
Kai Akker said...: ---Oh Well... [Bumble Bee]

Not the first time Carter has been described as a complete phony working on his image, only, for the public.

The empty clothes bag and suitcases are an amusing detail.

But there is sure to be even more humbug shortly.; 3/3/23, 6:59 AM
boatbuilder said...: This is some high-quality political gamesmanship.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3879164-florida-lawmakers-bill-would-get-rid-of-the-democratic-party/; 3/3/23, 7:04 AM
Dan from Madison said...: @Chest - thanks so much for that. Wow!; 3/3/23, 7:19 AM
boatbuilder said...: Creola Soul--It took the jury 45 minutes to stamp their guilty on all counts verdict in the Derrick Chauvin trial--complex legal distinctions between second degree murder, first degree and second degree manslaughter were carefully evaluated and assessed during those 45 minutes. Right. Justice.

I don't know anything about the Murtaugh case, but it sounds like they were convinced that he did it. 3 hours seems like enough time to let the court know they considered the evidence.; 3/3/23, 7:19 AM
Kai Akker said...: --- trafficked in right-wing conspiracy theories

Those are the bad ones, Gadfly. They always turn out to be true. Like the Wuhan lab leak. The Russian "dossier." The BLM fraudulence. The Hunter laptop. The Jan6 charade. The vaccine dangers.

More to come.; 3/3/23, 7:23 AM
Kai Akker said...: ---A 1972 live performance of Bonnie Raitt showed up in my music feed and it's fantastic. [Chest Rockwell]

Nice hearing her version of Bluebird. And that Mighty Tight Woman -- wonder if she ever plays that one these days? Too much fun for today's Puritans!; 3/3/23, 7:29 AM
lonejustice said...: Those 1972 live Bonnie Raitt recordings are amazing. Thanks for posting Chest.

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k2x8MSTwrJkoWiqBXw4hJ3M-vJshq-qL4; 3/3/23, 7:37 AM
Iman said...: I followed the Murdaugh trial, saw the verdict read yesterday and thought what a sad, sad story.

Then I watched the Murdaugh Murders thing on Netflix last night and my thoughts changed to damn if they all - except for oldest son Buster - get what they deserved, lol.; 3/3/23, 7:41 AM
Iman said...: “Crazy stuff. They got some of it right... and they didn't insult me.”

Alterman’s writing insults one’s intelligence.; 3/3/23, 8:06 AM
Jaq said...: Chat works with tokens, which roughly come down to syllables. It’s supposed to string them together properly though, maybe names are still a problem for it.; 3/3/23, 8:31 AM
Jaq said...: Two Russian billionaires who have managed to dodge US sanctions over Moscow’s year-old invasion of Ukraine went property shopping with Hunter Biden, dined with then-Vice President Joe Biden, and discussed “favors” they might swap, sources tell The Post.

New details of Joe and Hunter Biden’s association with Yelena Baturina and Vladimir Yevtushenkov flesh out tantalizing clues from the first son’s abandoned laptop. The sources spoke with The Post this week after the duo was yet again spared a fresh batch of sanctions announced by the Treasury Department Friday.

“I think it’s very fishy,” said one source who had firsthand knowledge of the business relationship between Hunter Biden and Yevtushenkov — who is sanctioned by the UK and Australia but not by the US.

“I think he should be sanctioned,” Michael McFaul, a former US ambassador to Russia under President Barack Obama, told The Post of Yevtushenkov — estimated by Forbes to be worth $1.7 billion. “I don’t understand why he has not been.”. - NY Post

Fight on boys, still plenty of you left to die for Hunter's friends in high places!; 3/3/23, 9:25 AM
Jaq said...: I asked Chat to rewrite one of your posts as a sonnet:

Oh Democrats, that's your chosen one,
There's no denying, it's clear as day.
Gerontocracy reigns, six years to run,
So snuggle up, it's the only way.

I've long since thought, Trump's the GOP's choice,
A loss in the election, that's my bet.
Campaign blogging, with a critical voice,
For two decades, and a whole lot of sweat.

What a thing to become so entrenched,
In political races, day by day.
This time around, my feelings are quenched,
Different this time, I'll just let it sway.

Our situation is absurd, it's true,
But struggling won't make it better, will you?; 3/3/23, 9:38 AM
gpm said...: I join with those thanking Chest for the Bonnie Raitt link. I've had the Luck of the Draw album/tape forever (though the tape may be degraded beyond playability at this point), but I wasn't familiar with her earlier stuff. The only pain was clicking through the ads. Listening now as I deal with today's Althouse.

I heard later that she used to be a regular at Club Passim in Harvard Square back when I was in school. Ditto for Livingston Taylor, who did a terrific job hosting an alumni talent show at our 25th reunion, where he said something like this would have been his reunion, if he had gone to college (also said there was no getting around that, at age c.47, we were on the back side of life!). For better or worse (obviously worse), we never saw fit to go to Passim. It's still there, but I don't get over to Cambridge much these days.

--gpm; 3/3/23, 6:40 PM