Althouse: Sunrise

March 20, 2023

Sunrise — 7:06.

28 comments:

CStanley said...: When I was a young child my dad made a coffee table with a stained glass Mondrian patterned top with lights below the glass. Danish modern style legs, a perfect fit for our mid-century living room.

Sometimes, as in today’s photo, these clouds remind me of the marbled milky glass pieces that he interspersed with the more translucent ones.; 3/20/23, 8:21 PM
Narr said...: Somberly sublime. And just in time.

Looks like the Ds might actually try to resurrect the Stormy storm with pretzel law; clearly things have taken a turn to the surreal.

Our PBS radio affiliate is playing Spring-related music. The sublime music is unfortunately yoked to positively Sovietesque airings of regime propaganda on all topics.

This will not end well.; 3/20/23, 8:36 PM
Narr said...: Somberly sublime. And just in time.

Looks like the Ds might actually try to resurrect the Stormy storm with pretzel law; clearly things have taken a turn to the surreal.

Our PBS radio affiliate is playing Spring-related music. The sublime music is unfortunately yoked to positively Sovietesque airings of regime propaganda on all topics.

This will not end well.; 3/20/23, 8:36 PM
wildswan said...: April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth with forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.

I feel as if I never knew what that poem meant before. It's not April yet but this has been a warm winter and I can feel the lilacs stirring in the dead land. Whatever the news or what the news means or doesn't mean - the sap in running in trees.

And this:
"Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
...
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages"

Yes, I'd like to "goon on pilgrimages" and "to seken straunge strondes." Why not?; 3/20/23, 8:42 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: I watched this video all the way until the end, and again all the way until the end.

Empathy and Sympathy

Hint: Lex podcast clip with a former FBI negotiator.; 3/20/23, 8:43 PM
BIII Zhang said...: It seems, Ann, that noted View conservative Whoopie Goldberg disagrees with you on whether it's appropriate for Stanford law students to shout down a sitting federal court judge when he visits the campus.

"We hope your daughters get raped," said one of the law students to the judge.

Goldberg found offense at such theatrics. "Maybe all the snowflakes in the world need to get over the fact that people are going to disagree with them," Ms. Goldberg said.

Goldberg - who is infamous for her legal doctrine of "It's Not Rape-Rape" explaining how if you're a famous Hollywood producer and you drug a 13-year-old girl to anally copulate, it's not really rape if her mother brought her to your hot tub - was surprisingly candid in her defense of the federal judge.

Must be pretty humiliating to be on the side of the student-jackboots on this one.; 3/20/23, 8:45 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: YouTube doc John Campbell had shown a video of an elected UK official making a speech about the need to stop the covid vaccinations, do to spikes in excess deaths and other problems related to the vaccines. YouTube commenters notice something peculiar at the beginning of the video and called it to the doctor's attention. The video link below is his response to something he called "strange".

link to video clip

Hint: if it looks like collusion and walks like collusion...; 3/20/23, 9:05 PM
wildswan said...: April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth with forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.

I feel as if I never knew what that poem meant before. It's not April yet but this has been a warm winter and I can feel the lilacs stirring in the dead land. Whatever the news or what the news means or doesn't mean - the sap in running in trees.

And this:
"Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
...
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages"

Yes, I'd like to "goon on pilgrimages" and "to seken straunge strondes." Why not?; 3/20/23, 9:41 PM
Drago said...: FYI: SpaceX is projected to deliver 80% off all payload mass to orbit this year.

And that does NOT include Starship, by far the biggest, most powerful rocket ever planned to be launched.

Not bad for the guy readering, Dumb Lefty Mark and LLR-democratical Violent Homosexual Rape Fantasist Chuck insulted and called a "bozo" and a "clown".; 3/21/23, 1:15 AM
Kate said...: Ah, wildswan. You've used two of my favorite quotes. Eliot and Chaucer. The bookends of great English literature.; 3/21/23, 4:17 AM
farmgirl said...: There it is!!!; 3/21/23, 5:50 AM
Humperdink said...: The tag team of Xi/ Vlad have offered to initiate peace talks with the Ukes. Potential Peace Prize nominee, retired Rear Admiral, balloon expert, spokes idiot John Kirby flatly rejects the offer. Weapons companies cheer as do the usual collection of war mongers. The Ukes? Their too busy getting killed to respond.; 3/21/23, 6:01 AM
farmgirl said...: You posted twice, wildswan- &I enjoyed it twice. Oldentime poetry is so heavy, so sincere it thought, to me. I liken it to 1st words or new thought: original, I do believe is the word I need. Yet, it’s not nearly so old as the oldest.

The sap on our cold hillside is frozen in the lines. Everyone around has made syrup and my husband has the fever for a good run, but we wait. When she lets go(she = the weather, the trees, the lines(she’s many things, a big girl)Spring)- he’ll have a lot on his plate :0).

I’m clipping up cows and washing tails- we’re classifying next Tuesday. Try keeping 60 ginormous cows from splattering shit on themselves and playing patty cake in the gutter w/their tails- i don’t even know if it’s worth it. We haven’t scored our cows since 2016. It’s a good way to find out strengths & weaknesses in our herd and where to focus improvement. It’s nerve racking, exhausting and a extra work. I’m psyched!

Happy Spring!

And to those who “seken straunge strondes."… be safe.; 3/21/23, 6:08 AM
Dave Begley said...: Just found out that Otis Redding, Jr. died in a plane crash in Lake Mendota. He had just finished recording his biggest hit, but before its release. Sitting On the Dock of the Bay was number 1. His dad died of a heart attack shortly after the song reached number 1.; 3/21/23, 6:31 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: It was a complete set up...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11873081/Former-SVB-risk-officer-inexplicably-left-company-year-7-1million.html

Leftist Robbin Hoods; 3/21/23, 7:07 AM
wendybar said...: Nancy Pelosi
@SpeakerPelosi
We welcome the presence of these activists, and we strongly urge the Capitol Police to allow them to continue to organize and participate in our democracy.
12:02 PM · Nov 13, 2018

Unless they are Trump supporters, THEN they get arrested and thrown into the DC gulag with no trial for 2 years.; 3/21/23, 7:14 AM
wendybar said...: "If you were sleeping during the 2015 GOP primary, you’d say this was a mighty fine statement of policy. It’s taking the high road."

https://mikecernovich.substack.com/p/desantis-misses-his-moment; 3/21/23, 7:18 AM
Mr. Forward said...: “For 16,937 students, Stanford lists 2,288 faculty and 15,750 administrative staff.”

At any good psychiatric institution the staff should outnumber the patients.; 3/21/23, 7:19 AM
Ann Althouse said...: @BIII Zhang

You are being inappropriate — your word — because you are making assertions about a person — me — as if you had read and understood my position, but you have not.; 3/21/23, 7:49 AM
tim maguire said...: wildswan said...April is the cruelest month

Every year, in late winter/early spring, I think of that line. When I first read it in high school, it made no sense. Are you kidding me? January is the cruelest month. Things are finally getting nice in April.

But now I get it. January is supposed to be cold and dark and it is. I expect no better and am able to get cozy in it. But April, when we're sickest of the cold and most desperate for some nice weather, dangles beautiful weather before us, only to snatch it away and bring back dreary wet cold again. And again. April is summer's tease.; 3/21/23, 7:54 AM
Old and slow said...: One of my favorite Irish expressions is "acting the maggot" as in "ah here, Anto', quit acting the maggot"

If some of the commenters here don't quit acting the maggot, we may lose our comment section again. As annoying as many of you are, I would still consider this a loss.; 3/21/23, 8:05 AM
Rusty said...: Drago said...
"FYI: SpaceX is projected to deliver 80% off all payload mass to orbit this year."
And just in time too. Russia has no civilian rocket program any more. It has no rockets to launch and the launch site in Kazakhstan has been repossessed by the Kazakhstanis for back rent.; 3/21/23, 8:08 AM
Owen said...: Wildswan, Kate and Farmgirl: poets’ corner! Two of the best. Thanks.; 3/21/23, 8:23 AM
Jersey Fled said...: Greta Thunberg has been warded an honorary doctorate in Religion by the University of Helsinki.

The jokes just write themselves.; 3/21/23, 9:26 AM
wendybar said...: "He’d never been involved in politics before Jan. 6, according to the memo. He voted for former President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. He didn’t vote for former President Donald Trump in 2016, believing his initial candidacy to be a “joke” and a publicity stunt, the memo stated."

https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2023/03/17/florida-capitol-riot-defendant-guilty-plea-prison-sentence-mitchell-gardner/?itm_source=parsely-api; 3/21/23, 10:41 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "Just found out that Otis Redding, Jr. died in a plane crash in Lake Mendota."

No. It was Lake Monona.; 3/21/23, 10:55 AM
Ann Althouse said...: Please do not leave blocks of extra space in your comments. I delete these when I see them, regardless of content.; 3/21/23, 10:56 AM
farmgirl said...: I really hope I don’t leave the blocks of space. I always make sure my blinking blue line is at the end of my last sentence before I post. Maybe if I previewed my comments- I would notice a block of space? Did I mention that anytime someone is anonymously (accused?) of wrongdoing- I think it’s me? It’s a me thing…; 3/21/23, 4:28 PM