Althouse: Sunrise

March 13, 2023

Sunrise — 7:25.

24 comments:

Chuck said...: I always like it when Althouse explicitly gives things the café label; she has nice ways of working "café" into the title.

Anyway, I'll presume that this is a café post. If not, I'll happily delete.

My purpose in posting separately here is because while the Tucker Carlson Capitol CCTV issue is raging, there is a new entry in the official discussion.

The DOJ answers the Tucker Carlson controversy.; 3/13/23, 8:29 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Tom and Gerry Live Action; 3/13/23, 8:48 PM
FullMoon said...: Ok, something I have been waiting all day to get off my chest,.....
nevermind. Probably remember later.; 3/13/23, 8:51 PM
JRoberts said...: Dave Begley had a great post today on American Thinker about Nikki Haley. While DB made some good points, some the comments over there were totally irrational.; 3/13/23, 9:06 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: When #unsaidthings get put on video

When thinking about what could be going thru the mind of someone with their own chosen pronouns, could it lead one to believe that maybe there is no such thing as a "healthy fear, healthy skepticism"?

That whatever other people think is irrelevant. But if what other people think is irrelevant, why the insistence that they, other people, MUST use pronouns other than the ones chosen by nature?; 3/13/23, 9:14 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: Today I brewed my first batch of beer after moving into our new home. I've dedicated part of the shop area to brewing. I installed a 24" stainless steel utility sink, a stainless steel prep table and a cabinet.

This is the first time that I'm brewing using the all-grain method rather than the mixed grain/malt extract method. The brew pot is a Digiboil(tm) system that heats the water and maintains the temperature at the desired temperature. There's a stainless steel insert that the grain goes in for mashing.

After the grain has been mashed for 60-minutes, the insert is raised to the top of the pot and the water drains out of the insert into the primary boiler. Then the wort is boiled for 60-minutes and the hops added at the appropriate times. The wort is cooled with a cooper coil to 80-deg F and then transferred to the fermenter and the yeast pitched to start fermenting.

The boiling temperature was only 206-def F today. There was a rain system going through with a low atmospheric pressure of 972 millibar.

Today's beer is an amber ale.; 3/13/23, 9:36 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: Highlight reel; 3/13/23, 9:43 PM
Narr said...: Freeze warning tonight--and some things are well into bloom.

Cashed out a 401k (low five figures) last week, got the check today (-20%), and found out at the bank that only about 25% will be available on Wednesday, the balance on the 22nd.

Billions move around the globe in nanoseconds, but the retired schlub who needs a few tens of thousands has to wait . . .; 3/13/23, 9:44 PM
Narr said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 3/13/23, 9:46 PM
Dave Begley said...: JRoberts.

Thanks!

I mostly reported on her content. Surprised people have made up their minds.; 3/13/23, 10:03 PM
Marc in Eugene said...: They're going to find a way to fire Amy Wax at Penn. 'Tenure isn't meant to....'; 3/13/23, 10:09 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: One for the good guys. Gay man accused without evidence settles/wins defamation suit.

Daily Beat: A writer named on The Shitty Men in Media list has settled his lawsuit for a six-figure sum with the woman who created the infamous spreadsheet, Confider has learned.

The Adderall Diaries author Stephen Elliott sued columnist Moira Donegan for defamation after being accused of rape, sexual harassment, and coercion on the Google spreadsheet that was widely shared at the height of the #MeToo movement and accused upwards of 70 men of sexual misconduct.

“The lawsuit had gone 4 and a half years and would have gone 4 more years I think before going to trial,” Elliott told Confider via email. “They were doing everything possible to avoid defending their views in court so when they offered enough money I agreed to settle.”

Elliott said Donegan wanted a confidentiality clause which he did not agree to, describing it as a “Harvey Weinstein thing to ask for.”

And while he wasn’t successful in determining who had added him to the list, he suspects it was a woman he fired at the online literary magazine The Rumpus, which he founded.

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“Whoever put me on that list is deeply disturbed and Moira was taking advantage of people like that. I’m certain there is no one out there in this world who thinks that I raped them, and I’m certain that I never raped anyone. I don’t even like penetrative sex with women,” he told Confider.

When reached by Confider on Monday, Donegan said she couldn’t comment and referred questions to her attorney, Gabrielle Tenzer, who did not respond to a request for comment.

Elliott said his life has been “permanently changed” as a result of being on the list. He says he was fired by his agent while his publisher and editor publicly supported the list.

“Imagine, a non-profit publisher publicly supporting a media blacklist, even while telling me privately they knew I was innocent, and they believed other people on the list were innocent as well,” he told Confider.

“But there’s some closure here. It’s enough money that it’s basically an admission of guilt, and it feels like a victory. And most importantly it’s helped push back on false accusations and presumptions of guilt. Because believe it or not, ultimately I filed the lawsuit for moral reasons. I felt there was a moral obligation, and I don’t regret that at all.”

link to the whole thing; 3/13/23, 10:36 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: You ever notice how UFO videos are always the poorest of poor quality. While on the other hand, Walmart/MacDonalds fight videos, taken by presumably people of meager means, are always iPhone 14 quality.

link to UFO tweet; 3/13/23, 10:51 PM
rehajm said...: I mostly reported on her content. Surprised people have made up their minds

She might be a shiny new penny where you are but she’s been a politician for a long time. Some of us have seen enough..,; 3/14/23, 5:04 AM
Humperdink said...: Comment stolen from August-Landmesser (Zero Hedge): "I can’t believe it’s bank collapse season already, I still have my train derailment decorations still up…—-"; 3/14/23, 5:27 AM
Humperdink said...: Headline Wall Street Journal: "China’s Xi Plans to Speak With Zelensky for First Time Since Ukraine War Broke Out"

Uh oh, the war mongers in the US will not be pleased. Lindsey Graham hardest hit.; 3/14/23, 5:45 AM
tim maguire said...: Chuck said...The DOJ answers the Tucker Carlson controversy.

Chuck, do you understand what a motion to dismiss is? It is not, and doesn't pretend to be, a fair description of the facts. It is a deliberately cherry picked and spun set of facts explicitly designed to put the mover's case in the best possible light.

Only a fool would make up their mind about something based on the portrayal of events in a motion to dismiss. You can't even use it as new information until you see the response.; 3/14/23, 6:04 AM
tim maguire said...: Lem the misspeller said...One for the good guys.

Always nice to see some justice finally happen.

The Shitty Men list (and the whole Me Too phenomenon, really) are a species of revenge porn and they should be treated as such.; 3/14/23, 6:08 AM
Humperdink said...: Nikki Haley? Maybe she should team with Mike Pence (R-Dud) and go after the weathervane vote.; 3/14/23, 7:12 AM
wendybar said...: Laura Ingraham
@IngrahamAngle
Imagine if Tirien Steinbach was a conservative white male Stanford dean who had berated a federal judge appointed by Pres. Obama. Yeah, I can’t either.; 3/14/23, 7:15 AM
Jamie said...: Mike of Sno, what an awesome setup! I'm jealous!; 3/14/23, 8:37 AM
farmgirl said...: Mike of Sno… you brew beer like we boil sap 2syrup! Same names lol; 3/14/23, 10:42 AM
wendybar said...: Turley is waking up!!

"For several years now, many Democratic members have embraced censorship on social media and resisted efforts to uncover government efforts to silence citizens. As someone who grew up in a liberal, Democratic family in Chicago, I knew that a commitment to free speech was one of the most compelling values of the party — back then. Today, free speech often is treated as harmful and dangerous.

President Joe Biden is arguably the most anti-free-speech president since John Adams, and the Democratic Party is largely committed to censorship and speech regulations."

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/03/13/post-decency-politics-house-democrats-used-a-hearing-to-attack-both-free-speech-and-a-free-press/; 3/14/23, 11:11 AM
walter said...: Humperdink said...
Nikki Haley? Maybe she should team with Mike Pence (R-Dud) and go after the weathervane vote.
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Never alone together.; 3/14/23, 12:06 PM