Althouse: Sunrise — 7:08, 7:14, 7:23.

March 11, 2025

Sunrise — 7:08, 7:14, 7:23.

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rehajm said...: …of Althousian interest: Peter Wolf’s book out today. A quick fun read and he also narrates the audiobook. Stories with musical greats and celebs. A Bob Dylan chapter!

…prolly get through the Althouse Amazon portal…; 3/11/25, 7:07 PM
David53 said...: Department of Education reducing staff by nearly half.

Still not tired of winning.; 3/11/25, 7:08 PM
rehajm said...: fav song lyric: Rapunzel!; 3/11/25, 7:11 PM
FormerLawClerk said...: Trump and the Republicans funded NPR for 6 more months tonight. Also funded 17% of USAID waste that's now hidden from view in the State Department budget. I see there's millions more for the liberals at the Kennedy Center in that bill.

Trump is the best thing to happen to Democrats since Joe Biden's $2 trillion "Inflation Reduction Act" that sent $2 billion to Stacey Abrahams.; 3/11/25, 7:30 PM
Lucien said...: Do you think the US civil war would have unfolded differently if the confederacy had chosen Atlanta or Charleston as its capital?; 3/11/25, 7:54 PM
Jupiter said...: I get at least a dozen e-mails a week from conservative organizations wanting money. Maybe we shouldn't shut USAID down after all .........; 3/11/25, 8:01 PM
Breezy said...: Anytime Randi Weingarten speaks we have to remember she’s an advocate for teachers only, not students. She’ll talk about students’ needs only when her back is against the wall wrt teachers needs. Her union of teachers has let millions of children down wrt their quest for basic skills. Millions. She needs to sit down and STFU.; 3/11/25, 8:07 PM
Josephbleau said...: “Do you think the US civil war would have unfolded differently if the confederacy had chosen Atlanta or Charleston as its capital?”

In my opinion, no. There were two armies to destroy, the Army of NV and the Army of TN. The Army of Northern Virginia was going to defend NV, and the Army of Tennesse was half destroyed in Atlanta.

It might have changed the strategy of the Army of the Potomac by muting its fixation on taking Richmond and letting it focus on the battles instead of manouver.; 3/11/25, 8:08 PM
Aggie said...: " Also funded 17% of USAID waste that's now hidden from view in the State Department budget...."

Well, thank goodness you know this for a solid fact - now you can share it with all of us, so it won't be hidden anymore. Where are you posting it?; 3/11/25, 8:16 PM
Iman said...: Ain’t nothin’ but a house party, rehajm @7:07pm!; 3/11/25, 8:19 PM
Political Junkie said...: Does the Trump cabinet have the most billionaires ever? Trump, Lutnick, Bessent, McMahon (Wrestlin empire!), Burgum, Elon!!; 3/11/25, 8:20 PM
john mosby said...: Is anyone else freaked the hell out by the anime-style drug commercials?

JSM; 3/11/25, 8:25 PM
NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...: Lucien said...

Do you think the US civil war would have unfolded differently if the confederacy had chosen Atlanta or Charleston as its capital?

Charleston would have been a bad choice. I don't think the Confederacy could have built up enough of a navy to properly defend it against the USN. Atlanta would have had an interesting effect as it was the one place in the South where the there was a junction between the East-West and North-South rail lines. Communication between theaters would have been much easier.; 3/11/25, 8:34 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: If you mix the ashes with some of that dye used in gender reveal, what would you call it? What would Grok call it? 🤔

#Million $ Idea.; 3/11/25, 8:38 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Save the 'cremains' for when someone in the family gets pregnant. If everybody does it, we could solve the number one existential crisis facing the human race. Musk would love this idea.; 3/11/25, 8:45 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: If this takes off, we could put off jettison off to Mars.; 3/11/25, 8:47 PM
NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...: Josephbleau said...

It might have changed the strategy of the Army of the Potomac by muting its fixation on taking Richmond and letting it focus on the battles instead of manouver.

That would have been a bigger advantage to the Army of Northern Virginia because they wouldn't have had to worry about defending Richmond and could have focused more on threatening Washington, DC.; 3/11/25, 8:49 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: YouTube: Congratulations to Daily Dose. Now with 20 million subscribers; 3/11/25, 8:53 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Like mixing Shampoo and Conditioner in one bottle.; 3/11/25, 8:56 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: What did Chelsea Clinton do to collect $84M from USAID?

First of all, however, I don't know if this is true. I don't want to spread misinformation. Maybe she only got half of that? 😉; 3/11/25, 9:09 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: trump pretends on Federal land to buy a tesla in the white house shopping channel. WTF.. trump does an illegal television ad on federal property .trmp has already said electric cars dont go far and they stink ,too expensive and the CCP has got all the goods.But now that elon bought the trump white house , he is so fat he could barely get out of the car and says you think 160 lb Biden could get out? Itss outdoor APPRENTICE this perp is too freakin old. These two millionaires dont give a flying fuk about anyone but themselves and TAX cuts.,cmon man As trump says 'it will make good televison...; 3/11/25, 9:25 PM
Maynard said...: That would have been a bigger advantage to the Army of Northern Virginia because they wouldn't have had to worry about defending Richmond and could have focused more on threatening Washington, DC.

Lee pretty much maximized his advantages over incompetent Union Generals. DC was not a realistic target because it was so massively defended. However, assaulting DC instead of Gettysburg might have been advantageous for McClellan as the Democrat presidential candidate in 1964.; 3/11/25, 9:37 PM
Caroline said...: @john mosby: yes indeed. The weirdly accented anime has me asking WTH.; 3/11/25, 9:42 PM
Iman said...: It’s 2008. “Bernie Sanders acknowledges there is an incredible amount of waste and fraud in the government and then claims it's the responsibility of the President's administration to do something about it.”

Thanks, Bernie!

https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1899604678314201515; 3/11/25, 9:49 PM
Jupiter said...: There is a small but interesting set of word-pairs like liquor-liquid. Rigor-rigid. Torpor-torpid. Stupor-stupid. I have pondered them for years.
This evening, I cooked a cross roast, and I was making gravy from the juices in the roasting pan. I added some beef broth, and some red wine. To thicken it, I was adding a butter-flour mixture, stirring over low heat. And I found myself thinking, yes, it is thickening nicely. It is becoming more "gravid".
Now. There is no word "gravor". But "gravid" is certainly a word. And so is "gravity". What does this have to do with the word "gravy"?; 3/11/25, 9:53 PM
Jupiter said...: fervor-fervid. horror-horrid. squalor-squalid. sapor-sapid.
But; Avid. Viscid. Torrid. Solid. Florid.
And; Terror. Major. Minor.; 3/11/25, 10:08 PM
Dr Weevil said...: Etymological dictionaries are easily available. 'Gravid' is from Latin 'gravidus', which means 'pregnant'.; 3/11/25, 10:13 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: YouTube: Play This Game To Determine What You Truly Worship

"This is a clip from our recent release with Dr. Arthur Brooks. In it, he walks Dr. Jordan B. Peterson through the "what's your idol" game, which uses elimination to both pinpoint your primary want - and warn of its downfall."; 3/11/25, 10:15 PM
Jim at said...: Now that the price of eggs has dropped dramatically (as predicted) any bets on what the left is going to screech about next?

I'd rather they put forward some new ideas for debate instead of running around lighting each other's hair on fire every day.; 3/11/25, 10:28 PM
Mason G said...: "Now that the price of eggs has dropped dramatically (as predicted)..."

I mentioned a lack of comments on the price of eggs the other day. Mystery solved.; 3/11/25, 10:38 PM
Jaq said...: I hear that the Ukrainians want to erect a statue of George Washington in Kiev. Wasn't he the guy who told us in his farewell address to avoid foreign entanglements?; 3/11/25, 10:39 PM
Drago said...: Jim at: "Now that the price of eggs has dropped dramatically (as predicted) any bets on what the left is going to screech about next?"

In a completely expected pivot by our dems/left/LLR-lefties, after ignoring and downplaying and refusing to even mention the names of Laken Riley and Jocelyn Nungaray, the Usual Suspects are now ALL IN in support of a Hamas terrorist supporter (Mahmoud Khalil) who calls for the murder of Jews worldwide and harassed Jews at the Columbia campus for years. Thus providing ANOTHER example (did we really need another example?) of the irrefutable alliance between western lefties/dems/LLR-lefties and their islamic supremacist pals. An alliance which rivals the dems/left/LLR-left alliance wih the ChiComs.; 3/11/25, 10:50 PM
Jupiter said...: Timid. Vigor. Limpid. Furor. Sordid.; 3/11/25, 10:54 PM
Jupiter said...: "'Gravid' is from Latin 'gravidus', which means 'pregnant'."
Are you suggesting that this clarifies the relation between "gravy" and "gravity"?; 3/11/25, 11:00 PM
William said...: I saw about half of "The Substance". That's the Demi Moore movie. The presence of Demi Moore in the movie defeats the premise of that movie. The premise is that an aging actress goes to elaborate lengths to maintain a youthful appearance because otherwise no one would want to see her. The thing is, I streamed this movie precisely because Demi Moore is in it.....Demi Moore was a preternaturally beautiful young woman. Nowadays she's a preternaturally beautiful older woman. She's worth looking at.....There's considerable nudity in the film, but the prurience is curtailed because of the disgusting side effects of the drug she is taking.......Beautiful women are more beautiful when they're younger. That's a sad fact of life, but I know of many sadder facts.; 3/11/25, 11:09 PM
Hassayamper said...: I find it comical how poor attention-starved Dinky Dau writes walls of deranged gibberish in every thread, and not one soul bothers to answer him any more these days, even to laugh at him.

Bugger off, kook.; 3/11/25, 11:19 PM
effinayright said...: Dinky Dau, it's probably too late to treat your hebephrenia, which---from your nic--- began during the Vietnam era.

Here are typical symptoms:

* Disorganized speech and thinking patterns

* Inappropriate emotional responses or flat affect

* Disorganized behavior that may appear childish or silly

* Poor hygiene and self-care

You really ought to get yourself to the nearest VA office.; 3/11/25, 11:26 PM
effinayright said...: I can't believe my whole life I never knew that some Italian-Americans refer to what I always thought was tomato sauce, as "gravy".

Then I saw an old Sopranos clip of Paulie Walnuts complaining in a real Italian restaurant---in Italy---about their poor "gravy".

THEN the other day I saw jars of Italian tomato sauce in my supermarket labeled as "Gravy"!

"Ma che cazzo..?"; 3/11/25, 11:35 PM
effinayright said...: Dr Weevil said...
Etymological dictionaries are easily available. 'Gravid' is from Latin 'gravidus', which means 'pregnant'.
*************

Yes. Back in my State U Zoology class, we studied parasites, one of which was the tapeworm.

Ingesting "gravid" females got you into a bunch of trouble, as the critters could reproduce to lengths of six feet or more in your gut and steal your food.

(I never got tapeworms, but during the course of a long life I was host to ascaris lumbricoides, shigella, and giardia.)

Thanks, India!!; 3/11/25, 11:41 PM
wildswan said...: Similar words often trace back to indo-European roots arriving via Latin/French. But English is filled to the brim with hundreds of thousands of words from other languages like pajamas, barbecue, kabuki (theatre), ketchup, tattoo, safari; and from unknown sources like gravy or bastard.
Of course, making the roux is a weighty matter and a failure may give rise to a pregnant silence.; 3/11/25, 11:48 PM
Original Mike said...: "I find it comical how poor attention-starved Dinky Dau writes walls of deranged gibberish in every thread, and not one soul bothers to answer him any more these days, even to laugh at him."

In order to answer him, I'd have to read him first.
Not happening.; 3/12/25, 12:02 AM
wildswan said...: I see Canada and Ukraine have folded. I predict all the different countries facing Trump's reset dmands will give in, in that they will enter into a deal making process in place of war or an unfair trade system. Hamas and France will be the nastiest because no one wants Hamas while France wants no one but Greenland will be the only real holdout. I'm not sure what would happen if every male Greenlander was offered a motor boat and a rifle and every female Greenlander a choice of several appliances but I think they'd try for more from Denmark and then lose the votes in a winter storm.; 3/12/25, 12:09 AM
Jim at said...: I find it comical how poor attention-starved Dinky Dau writes walls of deranged gibberish in every thread, and not one soul bothers to answer him any more these days, even to laugh at him.

He should stick to handicapping the ponies. At least he showed a modicum of knowledge there.

And it goes well with drinking a lot and being on the losing end.; 3/12/25, 12:09 AM
gadfly said...: Former Law Clerk: USAID spends a billion dollars a year with US farmers for crops distributed to 35 counties, Now that that life-saving food is gone and sorghum farmers won''t have a market for their crop going forward and the demand for other crops will decline so more little American farms will die off next year.

Ebola prevention drugs keeping Africans alive to the tune of $2.5 billion/year have never been restored because USAID is essentially shutdown. In case you wondered, Merck makes the vaccine in the U.S.

Former GA gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams did not head up the group that received $1.9 billion from the EPA to rewire homes in America. Trump was mistaken yet again!; 3/12/25, 12:57 AM
gadfly said...: Elmo wants to skip going to the moon and send folks to die on Mars. If we cannot afford government funded charity on Earth where do we get the money to waste on NASA privatization by Musk? Perhaps another $50 billion billed to the government will keep him happy and he won't need that fake chainsaw.; 3/12/25, 1:16 AM
Kate said...: Lake Mendota has gone through break up. That's always a good spring feeling.

Here we had a hellacious thunder storm come out of nowhere last night. That's not a good spring feeling.; 3/12/25, 2:05 AM
Big Mike said...: Apparently there are signs that the H5N1 bird flu virus, like COVID-19 before it, is lab grown through gain-of-function research. We need real scientists checking that out, not the political animals Fauci and Collins filled NIH with.; 3/12/25, 3:00 AM
Big Mike said...: Oh, and the price of eggs has come back down below what I was on Inauguration. The Althouse lefty trolls each need go buy a dozen and suck them.; 3/12/25, 3:03 AM
wendybar said...: "Jim at said...
Now that the price of eggs has dropped dramatically (as predicted) any bets on what the left is going to screech about next?"

What DON'T they screech about?? If they aren't screeching, they are burning things down or rioting in the streets. It doesn't matter if they win or lose, they are always eternally pissed off at America and Trump. They live to be miserable.; 3/12/25, 4:02 AM
Money Manger said...: "You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!"
-Dickens. A Christmas Carol.; 3/12/25, 4:42 AM
Luke Vost said...: Life is beautiful, we must appreciate such moments! 😍; 3/12/25, 4:52 AM
john mosby said...: Caroline: "The weirdly accented anime has me asking WTH."

Thanks, yes! The accent is so weird that the ads have built-in subtitles. Just one of the many creepy things about them. Maybe the ad men figured if the mandatory side-effect warnings are in Engrish, fewer people will notice them?

JSM; 3/12/25, 5:13 AM
Iman said...: ‘fly supporting The Grift… who knew!; 3/12/25, 6:48 AM
Iman said...: Bringin’ the sleazy, cheesiest of cheese:

https://thefederalist.com/2025/03/11/drag-queens-and-billionaires-rally-for-far-left-wi-supreme-court-candidate/; 3/12/25, 7:11 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: The anime does tend to distract from the horrific side effects.; 3/12/25, 7:14 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: The anime does tend to distract from the horrific side effects.; 3/12/25, 7:14 AM
john mosby said...: Bumble Bee: “ The anime does tend to distract from the horrific side effects.”

That’s because the anime **is** a horrific side effect.

JSM; 3/12/25, 8:21 AM
Aggie said...: ..."Now that that life-saving food is gone and sorghum farmers.......If we cannot afford government funded charity on Earth where do we get..."

Gadfly wants to shame everybody into dutiful, unquestioning compliance. Dude, thou dost protest too much ! Nobody here is Scrooge. Chopping USAID is a program to cut the waste and the fraud, and reset what has become a swollen tick on the back of taxpayers.

Gadfly is in favor of the ticks, and parasites, charlatans, and grifters, too - not charity. Is that how we should interpret your feigned hysteria? The plan has been to throttle it all to see who squeals and then gradually re-start the program under the aegis of the S.O.S., who has already resumed spending the budget of the items that, in his discretion, are above board.

What is your problem with that?; 3/12/25, 8:31 AM
wendybar said...: All we really can do at this point is turn off the Propaganda media, point and laugh at them. Make them feel how stupid they really are.....

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Kaitlan Collins has called out President Donald Trump for keeping the press away amid a “tanking” stock market “tanking” after his refusal to rule out an economic downturn.

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🚨TRANSPARENCY: Presidential Tale of the Tape

Questions taken from press in first month of administration:

Barack Obama: 161
Joe Biden: 141
Donald Trump: 1,009

The legacy media hyperventilating over access to President Trump is a joke.; 3/12/25, 8:46 AM
wendybar said...: Thank you President Trump for helping America fix what O'Biden administrations have destroyed!!!

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BREAKING: February CPI inflation FALLS to 2.8%, below expectations of 2.9%.

Core CPI inflation FALLS to 3.1%, below expectations of 3.2%.

This marks the first decline in both Headline and Core CPI since July 2024.

Inflation is cooling down in the US.
8:30 AM · Mar 12, 2025; 3/12/25, 9:33 AM
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Gas down, eggs down, inflation down…democrats anger up.
9:20 AM · Mar 12, 2025

AGAIN...AS USUAL!!!; 3/12/25, 9:48 AM
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Only Trump could make liberals hate electric cars.; 3/12/25, 9:55 AM
Jupiter said...: "Beautiful women are more beautiful when they're younger. That's a sad fact of life, but I know of many sadder facts."
I don't. If I could fix one thing about this wretched World, that would be the one I'd choose.; 3/12/25, 10:12 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Trump got Rosie O'Donnell to move to Ireland. Out Damned Spot!; 3/12/25, 10:51 AM
Hassayamper said...: If I could fix one thing about this wretched World, that would be the one I'd choose.

Hmm. It would be nice, but honestly, after 40+ years with my wife, we are totally pair-bonded and I don't need any help to still find her attractive and eagerly take her in my arms.

I think that if I could fix one thing about this wretched world, it would be a definitive solution to the problem of theodicy. Why does an omniscient, omnipotent, benevolent, eternal God allow innocent young children to suffer?; 3/12/25, 10:59 AM
Rusty said...: gadfly said...
"Elmo wants to skip going to the moon and send folks to die on Mars. If we cannot afford government funded charity on Earth where do we get the money to waste on NASA privatization by Musk? Perhaps another $50 billion billed to the government will keep him happy and he won't need that fake chainsaw."
When you're using other peoples money for your largesse it isn't "charity". I suggest you look up the meaning of the word.; 3/12/25, 11:20 AM
john mosby said...: Hassayamper - theodicy is a false paradox.

An omniscient god knows things we don’t. It’s not a contradiction that he’s allowed things to happen that we don’t understand.

For most Christians, theodicy is resolved by god becoming man and participating fully in all the crappiness.

Other religions with a single omniscient god may just stick to “his ways aren’t our ways.” But it’s still not a contradiction.

JSM; 3/12/25, 12:06 PM
Hassayamper said...: For most Christians, theodicy is resolved by god becoming man and participating fully in all the crappiness.

Other religions with a single omniscient god may just stick to “his ways aren’t our ways.” But it’s still not a contradiction.

If that were the end of it, we wouldn't have seen apologists from St. Augustine to Mother Theresa expend so much ink on it over so many centuries.; 3/12/25, 12:24 PM
Rusty said...: "I think that if I could fix one thing about this wretched world, it would be a definitive solution to the problem of theodicy. Why does an omniscient, omnipotent, benevolent, eternal God allow innocent young children to suffer?"
99.9% of the shit we suffer in this world is the shit we get up to. Remember god gave us free will. We're supposed to be figuring stuff out for ourselves.; 3/12/25, 12:49 PM
john mosby said...: Rusty, good point about free will. That is probably a better rejoinder to theodicy. We’re free to choose; that’s a good thing; sometimes our choices make the innocent suffer.

Or maybe it pushes theodicy into a different paradox: how can free will be truly free if god knows how it all turns out?

But there are lots of answers to that one: god knows all the possible outcomes; all the possible outcomes exist in parallel universes; free will is kind of like centrifugal force - it exists but not really; etc.

JSM; 3/12/25, 1:51 PM