Althouse: The lakeshore at sunrise and late afternoon.

April 12, 2023

The lakeshore at sunrise and late afternoon.

6:24 a.m.:

The woods at 4:09 p.m.:

That's bloodroot.

Closeup:

4:22, standing in the Biocore Prairie and looking out across the aftermath of the prescribed fire:

Back home at 4:53, listening to the LPs that arrived today:

32 comments:

tim in vermont said...: Kim Dotcom@KimDotcom · 3h
Joe Biden doesn’t recognize the little brown guy (Prime Minister of UK) and pushes him away to salute the old white guy. The look on the face of @RishiSunak is priceless

https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1646255906936745984

The racist old dotard in the White House.; 4/12/23, 7:24 PM
n.n said...: Joe Biden doesn’t recognize the little brown guy

DIEversity, or, in the modern family: Diversity,Equity,Inclusion (DEI), perhaps rabid. To be fair, little brown guys outnumber old white patriarchs. Diversity in color, class, and politically congruent constructs. Forward! to the past.; 4/12/23, 7:43 PM
madAsHell said...: My in-laws have political opinions that differ from mine.

During a recent visit, Biden came on the TV. My Turette's syndrome belted out "that's just fucking voter fraud!!".

Nobody disagreed.; 4/12/23, 7:56 PM
Original Mike said...: I love Bloodroot. And Bloodroot loves our garden.; 4/12/23, 8:00 PM
Chuck said...: I wanted this to appear separately, apart from the now-aged (!?) blog post about Trump's sociopathic interview with Tucker Carlson.

In the comments, Dave Begley independently noted that Trump -- a future loser, no doubt -- claimed that the court/police/courthouse staff in Manhattan were "crying," and were encouraging Trump to win in 2024. Begley noted that the NYT would soon do a story on interviews with staffers who denied any such thing. Kudos, Begley; except that it was the Daily Mail, not the NYT.

And there was also this related to the Trump/Tucker interview...

Julia Davis, the marvelous Russian-native observer and monitor of Russian media, points out how Russian state tv just loved the interview and is playing it back to approving Russian audiences.; 4/12/23, 8:16 PM
madAsHell said...: I walk along the shoreline of Lake Washington here within the Seattle city limits. There is significant evidence of beavers, and then I fixed a wildlife camera to successfully capture their activity as well.

Just out of curiosity, is there beaver activity around Lake Mendota??

I see otters too!; 4/12/23, 8:24 PM
William50 said...: That looks a lot like what's left of my album collection. Th only one that might even be considered collectable is my puke multi colored Dave Mason Alone together album. Almost all my albums are now MP3s on my lap top and thumb drives I use in my cars.; 4/12/23, 8:40 PM
William50 said...: "Just out of curiosity, is there beaver activity around Lake Mendota??"

Yes, but mainly around the UW. Baaruump bump. I'll be here all week, try the veal.

I'll show myself out.; 4/12/23, 8:49 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: The trees in Snoqualmie are still enjoying their winter sleep too. No leaves yet, just bare trunks.

I mowed the grass for the very first time this afternoon. Used my brand new Kubota zero-turn mower. The grass is still sparse in some area and coming in well in others. I'll probably need to do a third sowing to fill in the bare areas.; 4/12/23, 9:39 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: I Loved that Cornel hard NO response post.

Imagine whoever was writing Genesis and a committee writes him an email saying, you know that snake story... we love the snake story, but after some deliberation we thought, couldn't you warn people... we don't want people hating on snakes and so forth. Snakes are going to get a bad rap. And you know, they are handicapped. It could make them unemployable. Do we really want to do that?

The writer looks puzzled and writes back to the books approval committee chairperson, isn't the point of the story to warn people not to be too trusting of snakes? That some snakes are poisonous. If the story of the snake is fuzzy about the damage a snake could do, couldn't another tribe, not having heard about poisonous snakes, go thru what Adam and Eve went through?

The point of stories is that once not having made the same old mistakes, we could write our own stories about the new mistakes we made and how future peoples can avoid those and make their own which will hopefully be less severe and catastrophic.

Softening the blows defeats the entire purpose of writing stories... and watching them on film. Can you watch a film where nobody get's hurt? How are we going to learn to expect the unexpected? That's how the Dodo were wiped out. They had no expectations.

How are future generations going to know the difference between an AI generated snakeskin and real snakeskin? BTW. I decided the dog in Blade Runner 2049 is not real.

Stories are important because they are about our survival. What other reason could we have for learning survival skills.

I'm sure we've all read or heard about how next to imposible it is to survive in outer space. One of the various reasons is that our bones have nothing to do out there, so they start to atrophy and wither. After long trips to space stations astronauts come back literally shorter than when they shot up atop a rocket.

Back on earth our lives are like bones in that our lives need the gravity of situations to help us grow and help each other up when one of us falls down.

I'm glad that at least at Cornell, sanity won one for our survival's sake.; 4/12/23, 9:52 PM
Eva Marie said...: RIP Anne Perry. Murderess turned crime writer. At 15 she and a friend killed the friends mother. They thought one hit with a brick would do it but it took 20 blows. The murder formed the basis of the movie Heavenly Creatures with Kate Winslet. After they were released from prison (5 year sentence), her friend became a devout Roman Catholic and Perry joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Both women lived quiet lives, never married and never contacted each other. Perry went on to write over 100 mysteries. She died 2 days ago, at the age of 84.; 4/12/23, 10:14 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: This post about Musk playing with his company's logo reminded me of a thorn on my side... well maybe nothing that dramatic, but still something annoying.

I have an mp3 of a great song with a chorus about a girl spitting on a guy's soda. And for the life of me, the internet won't tell me a thing about it.

The mp3 song title seems to be wrong, it doesn't have art cover, release date could be wrong, the band name seems to be wrong. Nothing that would tell me something about the song seems to be correct, according to google. When I google what lyrics I can pick up listening to the song, I get links on other songs that are not the song I'm looking for.

I downloaded an app on to my iphone that hears a tune, even a hum of the tune and tells you everything about the song. The app says "We couldn't find that one".

I'm thinking the internet may be censoring things that may cause trouble because TikTok challenge, or some such. Remember the tide pod challenge?

Another clue about the song is that the band sounds like Weezer.; 4/12/23, 11:10 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: It looks like Matt and Elon have parted ways, for good… which really means bad because Matt believes there’s more to uncover from the Twitter Files. Matt says Elon is paranoid.

https://open.substack.com/pub/taibbi/p/meet-the-censored-me?r=ncvsu&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

I don’t if this link will work for everybody. I have a subscription.; 4/12/23, 11:38 PM
Drago said...: Another kick right in LLR-democratical and Violent Homosexual Rage Rape Fantasist Chuck's balls, assuming he still identifies as male...which is an open question given Chuck's voluminous recent posting in support of the radical trans agenda for children and pushing pedophile apologists:

"Former Trump National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster said Wednesday on CNN’s “The Lead” that the Biden administration’s Afghanistan withdrawal was a “surrender to a terrorist organization.”

Ouch!

And indeed it was....just as the ChiComs desired.

Poor Chuck! He'll never be able to resurrect his "it was all Trump's plan and Trump's fault and Biden was a victim and everyone is a Putin asset treasonous traitor!!eleventy!1!111!11!1!1111!"

Not even lonejustice can rescue Chuck on this one.; 4/13/23, 12:56 AM
farmgirl said...: Birdsong must sound very different in the evening hours- it does here, but I’ve never stood still at night to listen. Only in the mornings do I still my soul to gaze up at the stars and moonlight. It’s a communion of physical senses in a metaphysical world.

Love the photos. Silhouette stability in the trunk of a tree. Solidity w/in an ever changing canvas of sky.; 4/13/23, 4:03 AM
wendybar said...: The idiot in the White House brought his "Don't Jump" joke to Ireland so they can see how juvenile, and idiotic this President really is. I hope they keep him there. https://youtu.be/20vNWWQU5pY; 4/13/23, 4:24 AM
farmgirl said...: Wanted to mention that our turkeys were very visible all Winter and are now congregating in the nearby cornfields to court and procreate… in droves. Droves? Uncountable numbers. About 8Toms strutting their stuff, all fanned out. Peacocking lol.

Too bad turkey season is coming up soon.; 4/13/23, 4:27 AM
wendybar said...: Tell me again WHO the real RACISTS in this country are....

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/04/12/democrat-compared-black-conservatives-to-slaves-n2621894; 4/13/23, 4:28 AM
Humperdink said...: LLR said: "I wanted this to appear separately, apart from the now-aged (!?) blog post about Trump's sociopathic interview ..."

Have a Bud Light Chuck, it may help relieve your obsession. Just don't stare at the can too long.; 4/13/23, 4:47 AM
wendybar said...: Wake up!!

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/04/wake_up_america__were_losing_our_country.html; 4/13/23, 5:06 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "That looks a lot like what's left of my album collection. Th only one that might even be considered collectable is my puke multi colored Dave Mason Alone together album. Almost all my albums are now MP3s on my lap top and thumb drives I use in my cars."

I still have my original "Blonde on Blonde," bought the week it came out. I never got rid of any album during the switch to cassettes, to CDs, to MP3s, and to Spotify. We've just gotten back to the albums and, in the process, are buying a lot of the new repackagings of Dylan material. What you're seeing and hearing in this post is "The Best of The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 12."; 4/13/23, 5:08 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "... bought the week it came out...."

When I was 15.; 4/13/23, 5:10 AM
Humperdink said...: On the Fox's show The Five yesterday, the group was discussing Biden's mandate to EV's. The left-handed mandate will force onerous emission standards on internal combustion vehicles and by extension force unwilling consumers to EV's. Limousine liberal Gerald (aka Geraldo) Rivera opined he was looking at a Bentley EV ($250,000). Rivera was subsequently ripped by Gutfield for being out of touch, forcing the working class to pay for his subsidies ($7500), forcing them to pay for the infrastructure, et al. Gerald was reduced to a blubbering idiot. Fun to watch.; 4/13/23, 5:28 AM
Humperdink said...: Ken Leon , CFRA Research Director (this morning) on Fox Business .... credit card balances are up 20% year over year, should help the beleaguered banks but pity the poor, and getting poorer, consumer. The Biden economy rolls on.; 4/13/23, 5:43 AM
Rusty said...: William50 said...
"Just out of curiosity, is there beaver activity around Lake Mendota??"
Just one of the best questions ever asked on this blog.; 4/13/23, 6:56 AM
Drago said...: LLR-democratical and Violent Homosexual Rage Rape Fantasist Chuck: "I wanted this to appear separately, apart from the now-aged (!?) blog post about Trump's sociopathic interview with Tucker Carlson."

This is, without a doubt, and quite demonstrably true, the greatest case of sociopathic and psychotic and dare I say bizarrely sexual projection ever witnessed at Althouse blog.

I'm happy to entertain alternative nominations and goodness knows there are a few, but nothing comes remotely close to this whackjob Chuck.

I would even venture to say no one else ever will exceed Chuck's lunacy given the generally higher quality of most commenters at Althouse blog.

Remember, Chuck's explicitly detailed reasons for being at Althouse are:
- To drive a wedge between Althouse and her readers (which makes Chuck's cringy and very creepy Eddie Haskell routines even more indicative of a sick personality)
- To smear and lie about Trump and Trump supporters and conservatives in general; 4/13/23, 8:46 AM
Ernest said...: That looks like a nice 2 channel system. What are the speakers?; 4/13/23, 9:08 AM
Chuck said...: Humperdink said...
...

Have a Bud Light Chuck…

Will do!; 4/13/23, 9:14 AM
wendybar said...: Will you look at that. The Tennessee Insurrectionist who became famous and got reinstated was a violent thug during Summer of 2020 Riots.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1646488172770066434; 4/13/23, 10:47 AM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: Pearson and Jones now back In Tennessee,(power to the people) Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee(Yes a Republican governor) on Tuesday urged the state’s legislature to pass additional gun control measures, an especially charged subject in a state that recently suffered a school shooting and the acrimonious expulsion of two Black Democratic lawmakers who called for greater firearm restrictions.
“I’m asking the General Assembly to bring forward an order of protection law. A new strong order of protection law will provide the broader population cover, safety, from those who are a danger to themselves or the population,” Lee said at a news conference, adding that he would like legislators to pass the legislation within the current legislative session, which ends in a few weeks.
Civil Rights movement took time, Loving vs Virginia took time, LGBTQ rights and marriage rights for same sex persons took time all progressive actions, Gen Z will eventually get some sensical limitations on rights to weapons of war for average person and backgrounded checks, Red Flag laws mentally ill people being able to own weapons, permit less carry (no training, back round check or proven ability to be able to handle a firearm) it just takes time. Reaching up toward my 80 years of life I have seen many changes that just took time. THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT!; 4/13/23, 11:35 AM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: How many of these mass shooters were on antidepressants? We know the Kentucky shooter was depressed and the Tennessee shooter was undergoing mental health treatment and was severely mentally ill. Were they on antidepressants?

Some antidepressants can have suicidal side effects? There have been other mass shooters that were taking antidepressants (IIRC).

We need an answer to that question. It may be that taking specific antidepressants could be a red flag for gun possession.; 4/13/23, 6:01 PM
madAsHell said...: Just one of the best questions ever asked on this blog.

The Wisconsin equivalent of........"Oh, bless your heart!!"; 4/13/23, 8:07 PM