Althouse: Sunrise — 6:53, 7:12, 7:43.

October 27, 2025

Sunrise — 6:53, 7:12, 7:43.

Talk about whatever you like in the comments.

117 comments:

Gospace said...: I've got a few Jamaica webcams open I'm no checking every few minutes. I'm certain they'll all be offline well before midnight. https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/jamaica/middlesex-county/may-pen/may-pen.html; 10/27/25, 5:55 PM
Big Mike said...: @Gospace, we’d appreciate if you could keep us advised. I have a friend who regularly goes to Jamaica and she’s very worried about the islanders.; 10/27/25, 6:01 PM
Clyde said...: As a Floridian who has been hit by some major hurricanes, I'm very concerned for Jamaica. This one looks like a worst-case scenario, and recovery time is likely to be measured in years. Wherever it makes landfall is going to look like Fort Myers Beach after Hurricane Ian in 2022.; 10/27/25, 6:12 PM
Big Mike said...: So a guy named Tyler Maxon Avalos just discovered that (1) TikTok is a poor medium for putting out a bit, and (2) $45,000 isn’t enough to stop someone from turning you in.

Anybody know why Avalos picked Pam Bondi? Is he pissed about the Epstein files?; 10/27/25, 6:14 PM
lonejustice said...: Have any of you ever noticed how many people on social media now refer to themselves as "digital creators"? Many of these people, based on my personal knowledge of them, are either unemployed, unemployable, or retired. Some of my old pretentious high school friends even list this as their "occupation," even though they haven't had a real job for 10+ years. I guess if you have a Facebook page where you occasionally post something, then your are now employed as a "digital creator." I find this pathetic.; 10/27/25, 6:15 PM
Big Mike said...: My wife has Fox News on. At first glance it appears that the Portland police have finally remembered how to do law enforcement and chase Antifa off the streets. Probably won’t last long, though.; 10/27/25, 6:28 PM
narciso said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/27/25, 6:36 PM
bagoh20 said...: I think some people are using the term "digital creators" because they were highly praised in first grade for their finger painting.; 10/27/25, 6:37 PM
narciso said...: 'Let's Go Brandon': Gov. Kathy Hochul Thought the ‘Tax the Rich’ Crowd Was Chanting ‘Let’s Go Bills’ – Twitchy https://share.google/TbWaMJ2YRulBPzDE0; 10/27/25, 6:38 PM
Yancey Ward said...: "Anybody know why Avalos picked Pam Bondi? Is he pissed about the Epstein files?

Well, he is named Tyler not Rich. Has Kakabich been seen here today?; 10/27/25, 6:42 PM
Mason G said...: Some of my old pretentious high school friends even list this as their "occupation," even though they haven't had a real job for 10+ years.

Ah, yes- Democrats.; 10/27/25, 6:43 PM
Yancey Ward said...: "Some of my old pretentious high school friends"

Damn, that group of friends must be really, really pretentious if Lonejustice was the unpretentious one.; 10/27/25, 6:44 PM
rehajm said...: Canadians sure do renovate their national anthem a lot. Nobody up there seems to mind…; 10/27/25, 6:45 PM
rehajm said...: One high school friend had activist on the job line long before we knew you could make big money doing it…; 10/27/25, 6:46 PM
boatbuilder said...: Well, narciso, the Jets and the Giants really do suck, so sure, those NYC football fans naturally show up at a political rally for a radical communist running for mayor of NYC and spontaneously cheer for the team from Buffalo. An honest mistake.; 10/27/25, 6:48 PM
Iman said...: “I find this pathetic.”

Now is a good time for some introspection, lonejustus.; 10/27/25, 6:49 PM
boatbuilder said...: "I got your 'digital creation' right here!"; 10/27/25, 6:49 PM
narciso said...: Not from witch hochul; 10/27/25, 6:52 PM
lonejustice said...: Mason G said...

Some of my old pretentious high school friends even list this as their "occupation," even though they haven't had a real job for 10+ years.
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Ah, yes- Democrats.
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You are actually right about this. Almost all of these people are Democrats.; 10/27/25, 6:56 PM
narciso said...: The harry sissons rupars of the world; 10/27/25, 6:58 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Revisiting SNL 1st Season. Holly Moley, its terrible. Well, you can see a few good things. Radner, Belushi and Ackroyd start appearing in their famous characters. Chase does a good job at physical comedy and Weekend Update. But Good God, the awful guest are allowed to dominate. Musical acts are ugly and weird.

Louise Lasser was she on drugs? Was Kris Kristofferson drunk? Why was Paul Simon allowed to sing for 40 minutes? And who thought Robert Klein was funny? The Carlin, M.Kahn, Pryor and Tomlin episodes were so dominated by them, the SNL players might as well taken the night off.

The bottom of barrel has to be...wait for.. the SNL muppets. I guess Henson wanted to do something edgy. Complete fail.; 10/27/25, 7:11 PM
narciso said...: Most of them were, a little lasser went a long way; 10/27/25, 7:13 PM
narciso said...: Klein was kind of a misanthrope like carlin with less wit; 10/27/25, 7:14 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Probably the goofiest host is Desi, who's in practically every sketch and looks like he's 78 and not 58. Just one bad sketch after another. Desi was a straightman, not a funnyman.

Comedy is a hard business. Some shows get it right almost from the beginning. Others need a while to find their feet. If I'd been say 15-20 y/o in 1975, I would've shut off SNL and probably never watched again. It took SNL a whole year to get on track. And replacing Chase with Bill Murray actually improved things.; 10/27/25, 7:17 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Yeah, I don't get Louise Lasser. I suppose she's one of those comic actors that if you give her the right character and the right script she's great. Otherwise...

I'm trying imagine her and woody in bed. Now that's a comedy show.; 10/27/25, 7:19 PM
FullMoon said...: "boatbuilder said...
"I got your 'digital creation' right here!"

10/27/25, 6:49 PM"

Bend over, I'll give ya digital creation; 10/27/25, 7:22 PM
Mr. Majestyk said...: Why don't Republicans start passing individual funding bills for things like the military, SNAP benefits, the courts @(or whatever)? Get the Dems on record voting no on specific programs.; 10/27/25, 7:24 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Last post. But I gotta mention albert brooks. He does like 5-10 minute little films for the first 12 episodes. And you can see the talent and the wry intelligent humor. But who ever thought that was something the average TV audience would like? The situations were funny. There were some funny lines. But most were just worthy of smile.; 10/27/25, 7:24 PM
Mr. T. said...: "Have any of you ever noticed how many people on social media now refer to themselves as "digital creators?"

Those are the paid Act Blue/ USAID (while the.coffers last) accounts. They are paid influencers or left-wing NGO employees. Unless they have 150 friends or less-then they are ActBlue bot accounts.

Ask Kak/Richsockpuppet/paidActbluetroll.

He works for these people -that's his role here, so he knows better than anyone how this works. Guessing he has 5-10 fake FB profiles that he jumps from and posts spam memes and leftist AI misinfo.; 10/27/25, 7:38 PM
Big Mike said...: @Gospace, any news? Do you have clips you can link us to?; 10/27/25, 7:53 PM
Jamie said...: I guess if you have a Facebook page where you occasionally post something, then your are now employed as a "digital creator." I find this pathetic.

I kind of feel for these people. What's it been, ten years? Fifteen? Since "influencer" began to be a way to make SOME money, and for a few, a lot of money? So there's a generation who grew up thinking this is an actual life path. Like young black boys in urban settings who believe - desperately wish - that professional sports will be their ticket out.

And here is where we need Crack again, to talk about New Age garbage - they've also been taught, this generation, that they can "manifest" their wishes into being, by speaking the proper incantations. Call yourself an "influencer," a "creator," and maybe you can become one.

And finally... I am truly sorry, lone, but it really does seem to me that those of us more on the right-hand side of the aisle have been more subject to having to test our wishcasting against reality than those on the left; for some forty years or so, it's been an active detriment to be openly conservative in a LOT of contexts - college, government work, entertainment, law, psychology, environmental work, clergy and other religion-related work, to enumerate some. Just as a mother (though I've also been employed in or worked with several others of those listed), I've felt strong pressure to keep my conservatism under wraps. So I've had to examine, at every turn, why my convictions make such sense to me - after all, almost everyone around me doesn't share them.

People on the left don't feel that pressure, it seems. They have a lot more insulation around them. So feedback - not "what people think of you" but actual, real-world checks against one's hypotheses - takes a lot more effort to get. You have to want it, and you have to seek out out, and then you have to listen to it.

This is my sincere assessment for why people of the left can continue to think so many of the things they think. I am not going for insult or feeling a sense of superiority; I actually do think that there is some good evidence for a significant genetic or Big 5 personality trait component (s) to at least how people's baseline "political"/ideological beliefs form and how strongly they're held, so it's not to my credit that I've been conservative since I started giving the question serious thought. It's just how I am.

But I know people do change their convictions - some few of them - and I think it's worthwhile to explore how and why that can happen. With regard to this "creator" thing, who wouldn't want to be a creator? The question is, are you really? And can you take it, if the facts show that you're not?; 10/27/25, 7:56 PM
NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...: lonejustice said...

Have any of you ever noticed how many people on social media now refer to themselves as "digital creators"?

Yes, it's about as many as the number of people on Linkedin that bill themselves CEO's. It's basically true, but the reality is that they're CEO's of a company with two employees; them and their dog. But they'll be more than happy to have you sign up for their weekly business strategies email!; 10/27/25, 8:04 PM
Wa St Blogger said...: Have any of you ever noticed how many people on social media now refer to themselves as "digital creators"?

The modern equivalent of the "entrepreneur" who would sell painted glass at the Saturday craft fair. Not everybody is The Beast, and not everyone is Chihuly.; 10/27/25, 8:12 PM
Jaq said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/27/25, 8:12 PM
Jaq said...: Hmm...

https://www.wdrb.com/news/business/dont-waste-your-money-falling-gas-prices-could-give-consumers-extra-cash-for-black-friday/article_f18f1f01-8b52-49cc-b03d-86cc91579169.html; 10/27/25, 8:20 PM
effinayright said...: Myself, Jaq/Timofei, I wonder if your buddies the Russkis let the "new Buresvestnik" aka "the Chernobyl"---a suppposedly nuclear-powered rocket---fall uncontrolled into the sea again.

No environmental concerns, no radiation leaks, none at all... ..nothing to see here folks....move along.; 10/27/25, 8:22 PM
bagoh20 said...: Just had an argument with Grok about staying in the eye of a hurricane to stay safe. Grok started out by telling me it was certain suicide, and ended with "your logic is 100% valid and you could definitely do it for days on a full tank"' l like being told that, but the promise of AI is that it gets the answer right fast and best. I might as well ask the Magic 8 Ball.; 10/27/25, 8:31 PM
Lazarus said...: SNL was still working out what it wanted to be. It wasn't a national institution back then. Lorne Michaels had to give in to the guest-hosts' wishes to get them to appear on the show. Now that the show's been around for fifty years, the celebrities want to appear on the show more than the show wants to put any one of them on so the show has more leverage.

Is that an improvement? When someone without any comic imagination is hosting it could be, but when a guest-host rich in comic ideas takes over the show, it's better -- maybe even worth watching.; 10/27/25, 8:32 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: "digital creators" - who cares what they call themselves? Let 'em be happy. No skin off my nose.; 10/27/25, 8:43 PM
Mason G said...: "but the promise of AI is that it gets the answer right fast and best."

Robbie Starbuck has entered the chat. From X...

"If we don't fix this now, we're in big trouble. Google’s AI fabricated a criminal history, and is now being sued by @robbystarbuck"

https://x.com/thedarkhorsepod/status/1981793858309828929
.; 10/27/25, 8:44 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Lorne Michaels had to give in to the guest-hosts' wishes to get them to appear on the show

Probably true. SNL in Season One had to use 3 hosts, Gould, Bergen, and Henry - twice. 3 people hosted 6 episodes.; 10/27/25, 8:46 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Whats really astounding is that in December 1975, they have a Christmas episode, where people actually use the phrase "Merry Christmas".

If you did that today, you'd be attacked from every Christian pulpit in America.; 10/27/25, 8:48 PM
Kakistocracy said...: What the casual observer misses about baseball is the inherent tension (percentages) in every moment of the game that calibrate up and down depending on what is happening the pitch. That is also why statistics play such a vital role in describing the game.

For example, the number of balls and strikes and whether the next shot is potentially a hit, strike out or walk, the hitter’s performance in the batting order and how he handles the specialty of the pitcher (e.g. sliders etc etc), how many has the pitcher thrown (and is he getting tired), whether one, two or all bases are loaded .. One hit could mean just advancing a base - or potentially bring the house down if a home run when all the bases are loaded.

This is different to cricket for example where a 6 is unlikely to change a game or soccer where a goal is only a goal.

That is why baseball is a spectacle to be enjoyed and especially the post-season and World Series given the stakes similar to a knock out competition (like the World Cup) compared to any regular season game.; 10/27/25, 9:05 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: This is different to cricket for example where a 6 is unlikely to change a game or soccer where a goal is only a goal.

Interesting. So you're from where? India? England? Austrailia?; 10/27/25, 9:31 PM
Michael Fitzgerald said...: Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Hartman,_Mary_Hartman
Guess I was too young to get this one. It was one of the shows that came on pretty late on a Saturday night, and even though there was nothing else on and I wanted to stay up late and watch television, it was so lame I'd just go to bed. Mary Kay Place was pretty cute though. 'Fernwood 2 Night' came along later with Martin Mull and Fred Willard and that was better. I'd watch if nothing else was on instead of going to bed.; 10/27/25, 9:33 PM
Peachy+2 said...: Gospace.
Wow - under the light you can see the rain. It is pouring.; 10/27/25, 9:44 PM
Peachy+2 said...: I was listening to Joe Pags show in the car on the way home.
He was interviewing a former mob-guy who used to lure in gambling addicts. Very interesting,; 10/27/25, 9:47 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: From another network: "Recognizing Palestine as a State, is like Recognizing Trans as a Woman"; 10/27/25, 9:47 PM
Peachy said...: LOl this is great. Perfect.; 10/27/25, 9:58 PM
Jupiter said...: Dick Durbin was born in November of 1944.; 10/27/25, 10:21 PM
Jupiter said...: "Recognizing Palestine as a State, is like Recognizing Trans as a Woman"

Well, no, actually, it isn't. The distinction between men and women is clearcut, and exists at the individual level. Whereas, the attribution of statehood to regions of the Earth has changed over time, sometimes in a continuous fashion, and sometimes in a catastrophic fashion. So, your analogy is simply wrong. It's as if you had said, "Recognizing aluminum as a metal, is like recognizing fungus as amoungus". In physics, this is called "Not even wrong".; 10/27/25, 10:29 PM
buwaya said...: Philippine Army stands up its first ground launch missile batallion. Up to this point this duty belonged to the Philippine Marines, using the Indian made Brahmos. This means more firepower is on its way. What, exactly, I dont know, but I suspect US made.; 10/27/25, 10:31 PM
buwaya said...: https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/nation/963981/ph-army-activates-1st-ground-launched-missile-battalion/story/; 10/27/25, 10:32 PM
Gospace said...: I was expecting conditions to be worse by now in Jamaica. All the webcams are still up and running. And showing rain at all of them. But not a lot of wind yet. I suspect a drastic change by the time I get up tomorrow. There are still cars passing by some of the webcams.; 10/27/25, 10:32 PM
Peachy said...: His platform is a love letter to economic illiteracy and a suicide note for the American Dream.; 10/27/25, 10:32 PM
Josephbleau said...: “ Fernwood 2 Night' came along later with Martin Mull and Fred Willard and that was better.”

Great show, Tom Waites was on it, he went to the local restaurant, his girlfriend had filet of sports equipment, and he did not know if he should eat his food or offer it a ride home.; 10/27/25, 10:44 PM
Yancey Ward said...: I watched every single episode of SNL that first season. My parents had stopped giving me a bedtime on Friday/Saturday nights and I started watching The Tonight Show on Fridays and SNL on Saturday- I was the only person in my family who was a night owl at that time (I was 9). Like RCOCEAN, I have watched some of the first season's episodes again a few years ago and they aren't really all that good in retrospect- it got better in subsequent years, though. I haven't watched an episode completely through, though, since the Mike Myers days in the early 90s.; 10/27/25, 10:49 PM
Jupiter said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/27/25, 10:51 PM
Jupiter said...: Actually, I want to expatiate on that subject. With very rare exceptions, human beings have either XX or XY chromosomes, in every single one of their cells (although I admit, it is unlikely that anyone has ever actually checked every single one of anyone's cells). So, a human is male, or is female.
Dirt, on the other hand, has no such exclusive identity. The dogs known as "German shepherds" are also known as "Alsatians", even though the Alsace is, at the moment, part of France, because, not that long ago, it was generally agreed to be part of Germany. I expect that the Muslim vermin who will soon govern it will give it yet another name, which it will wear without any evident discomfort. Dirt has no chromosomes.
So, what kind of a cheap trick is "Lem Vibe Bandit" trying to pull? Is he so stupid he can't recognize this obvious distinction? Is he so determined to push some political agenda that he doesn't care? Maybe both?; 10/27/25, 10:53 PM
Derve said...: Sounds fair to me,
if you want people to respect the law.
Nobody's above it. The jury saw the evidence they saw, and we shouldn't override their verdict... Over to you, ann:

The much-accused Sean Combs could be out of prison in less than three years, if he keeps out of trouble.

Almost a month after the sex trafficking- and RICO-charged Diddy was sentenced to four years (50 months) behind bars on the two lesser counts of transportation to engage in prostitution he was found guilty of in July, the Federal Bureau of Prison made public his release date.

Sean “Diddy” Combs is set to be let out on May 8, 2028.; 10/27/25, 11:11 PM
n.n said...: "Recognizing Palestine as a State, is like Recognizing Trans as a Woman"

Homosexual females are women. Sims are homosexuals with a heterosexual kink.

Yes, there was never a "Palestinian" state. It was only ever an unincorporated territory under imperial administration.; 10/27/25, 11:38 PM
Prof. M. Drout said...: Isn't the whole "the party of the President loses seats in the midterm elections" thing a reflection of the fact that every one of those Presidents failed to do the things he had promised to do? Because that's pretty much been the pattern my entire adult life. New President comes in saying he'll do certain things. Then he doesn't do them, his supporters are disappointed and either change sides or stay home, and the opposing party gains seats.
But what happens when the new president actually keeps his promises?
I guess we'll find out.; 10/27/25, 11:39 PM
Valentine Smith said...: 45% of recipients of food stamps are illegal aliens; 10/27/25, 11:45 PM
effinayright said...: Funny, innit, how the proglodytes see the Constitution as a "living, breathing document", but the White House must be treated as complete and inalterable as Stonehenge.; 10/27/25, 11:50 PM
wildswan said...: "but the promise of AI is that it gets the answer right fast and best."

The actuality of AI is that it gets the conventional wisdom to you and does it fast. It's the best and the brightest. But what if the truth is not the conventional wisdom? as was the case in Viet Nam.

Or what if it's a question about literature where the "truth" is zig-zagging like lightning along several ways of using words?

What if AI is based on statistical laws and you ask it about a self-evident truth?

If you ask AI about Schrodingers Cat, it will explain the thought experiment. If you ask it immediately afterward whether Schrodinger's cat died "today at noon," it will tell you that it can't answer questions in real time.

I used to work on a tech hot line and I consider AI the greatest hotline evah. But I also studied English language and literature and AI is a nonentity in that field. It goes above and beyond worst into worser.; 10/27/25, 11:52 PM
Maynard said...: I am so old that I remember when “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman” and SNL were required viewing for young urban hipsters like me.

They were not particularly clever shows, but they were
different. Different is always good when you are a hipster, more so today I suspect.; 10/28/25, 3:40 AM
Breezy said...: States are made up of people that are governed by people who can govern, god willing. All of the people within are a state’s cells, not its dirt.; 10/28/25, 5:33 AM
Humperdink said...: I listened yesterday to a lady ranting about losing her SNAP benefits of $2000. She said she was going to shoplift food and no one had better stop her.

$2000? $2000????; 10/28/25, 5:43 AM
Breezy said...: Hmmm. The American Federal Government Employees union has now come out and said, “Enough!”, wrt to the shutdown. Schumer’s off ramp has now been deployed.; 10/28/25, 5:48 AM
Jaq said...: If you ask AI stupid questions, like is the cat alive or dead, you get stupid answers. Garbage prompt in, garbage reply out. But yes, you should always take the first answer as its opening position, a summary of the conventional wisdom, but if you ask it further questions, you can get it to refine its answers, and move beyond that.

Kak is right about baseball. I said that baseball is almost Shakespearian, and I think it is, cricket, which is a sport I have watched, on account of being stuck in Sydney for six months and my hotel room got only three channels, well, cricket is more like a western. Football and basketball are more like Marvel movies, golf is poetry.

I suppose you could ask Grok to compose a list like that, but there is mine.; 10/28/25, 5:50 AM
Jaq said...: Maybe football is closer to Greek epic poetry and mythology.; 10/28/25, 5:53 AM
rehajm said...: I don’t see to many posts about Trump bad this or that or even the heavily massaged Democrats closing the gap stuff. Wonder why that is?; 10/28/25, 5:57 AM
rehajm said...: Not a peep about economic collapse; 10/28/25, 5:57 AM
Jaq said...: I just read on Instapundit that the US Army is looking at providing power for its prospective forward bases in future combat areas with modular nuclear power stations. How they are going to be kept safe from missile attack, I don't know.

As for the "Burevestnik" I only know that I think it is funny that the name "Bure" reminds me of "The Russian Rocket," Pavel Bure, so I asked Chat, and it said that "Bure" means "storm" and "vestnik" means messenger, which refers back to a poem by Gorky that was very popular with the Soviets and is also the name of a bird called in English a "storm petrel."

Whether the missile is a good idea or not, I know know, but I do know that we probably should not be threatening a country with 6,000 nuclear weapons with placing a large hostile army, at the start of the war, Ukraine had the largest army in Europe, a couple of hundred miles over open plains from Moscow. I say this as an American and a citizen of the West. When we do stupid stuff, it is the duty of voting citizens to call them out on it, not to just go along with whatever propaganda we are fed. As has been said "propaganda is to the democracy what the truncheon is to the dictatorship."

Sun Tzu says that you should know your enemy, but I guess we should just believe what we are told, not think about why they do the stuff they do, and we shouldn't ask any questions regarding what we are told.; 10/28/25, 6:05 AM
Kakistocracy said...: "45% of recipients of food stamps are illegal aliens"

That comment is just propaganda. The data shows higher participation rates among non-citizen–headed households, but there are far fewer of them and most benefits go to US-citizen kids in mixed families.

Far more Americans use welfare and immigrants generally receive less per person.; 10/28/25, 6:07 AM
Jaq said...: AI knows a shitload about literature, BTW, more than any living person, but it writes at the level of a bright high school student who has seen nothing of the world. Scratch that, Francoise Sagan wrote Bonjour Tristess while cutting classes in her senior year of high school, and never graduated.; 10/28/25, 6:09 AM
Christopher B said...: Prof. M. Drout said...
Isn't the whole "the party of the President loses seats in the midterm elections" thing a reflection of the fact that every one of those Presidents failed to do the things he had promised to do?

Maybe partially but I think it's likely the difficulty is far more structural. The GOTV effort and energization of a Presidentially-focused electorate will always pull some marginal Congressional candidates of the President's party over the line. They then have to run for re-election without the top of the ticket draw and actually defending their specific performance in office. Not surprisingly a bunch will fail. You can actually see this dynamic somewhat in reverse between 2020 and 2022. Part of the reason there was no 'Red Wave' in 2022 is because the Democrats lost 13 seats in 2020 despite Biden winning (only the fifth time the party winning the White House lost seats in the People's House in the same election). On net all of those Republican winners went on to win again in 2022 or the GOP wouldn't have been able to take over the House, a result that should have been anticipated because they'd already won without the support of a winning Presidential candidate.; 10/28/25, 6:10 AM
rehajm said...: She said she was going to shoplift food and no one had better stop her

Corrupt lawyers of a corrupt judiciary conditioned too many people to believe they are above the law…; 10/28/25, 6:12 AM
Clyde said...: Hot Take: Major League Baseball needs to use the regular season extra-inning rules in all postseason games as well. What good is it to have an exciting game that goes 18 innings when nobody east of Phoenix is still awake to see the ending at 3 a.m. in the Eastern time zone? I'm on vacation, so I stayed up late, but I still tapped out after 14 innings at 1:40 a.m. EDT. They use the placed runner at second base in extra innings during the season for good reason. Both bullpens got shredded last night and very few people saw the ending. Not good.; 10/28/25, 6:25 AM
Humperdink said...: AI this, chat GP that, grok ….good grief! Think for yourself.; 10/28/25, 6:49 AM
gspencer said...: 6 hours, 18 innings. Fortunately LA prevailed.; 10/28/25, 6:50 AM
Humperdink said...: “ Don't even think of seeking the Democratic nomination for president unless you pledge to take a wrecking ball to the
Trump Ballroom on DAY ONE.” (Eric “Fang Bang” Swalwell).

Well that sure is disappointing. The number of homeless citizens (and non-citizens) that could be housed in the 90,000 sq ft edifice would be off the charts. Swalwell is heartless.; 10/28/25, 7:18 AM
Iman said...: You’re on a hip trip
Maybe hipper than hip
But what is hip?; 10/28/25, 7:22 AM
narciso said...: https://x.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1982886290912883102; 10/28/25, 7:37 AM
narciso said...: Ai aggregates but it doesnt seem to actually consider its choices which are poorly sourced; 10/28/25, 7:58 AM
Humperdink said...: The Cathedral of Learning is the center piece of the University of Pittsburgh’s campus. It is about 2 miles east of downtown Pittsburgh. At 42 stories tall, it towers over the surrounding buildings. The students mockingly call it Bowman’s erection after the chancellor who commissioned it in 1921.

Looking at Obama’s “library” towering over the surrounding landscape, I am surprised it has not acquired an appropriate title. It is ripe for one.; 10/28/25, 8:33 AM
Achilles said...: Kakistocracy said...

"45% of recipients of food stamps are illegal aliens"

That comment is just propaganda. The data shows higher participation rates among non-citizen–headed households, but there are far fewer of them and most benefits go to US-citizen kids in mixed families.

Far more Americans use welfare and immigrants generally receive less per person.

Good.

That means Democrats will shut up and let the audit happen right?; 10/28/25, 8:36 AM
Mason G said...: "What good is it to have an exciting game that goes 18 innings when nobody east of Phoenix is still awake to see the ending at 3 a.m. in the Eastern time zone?"

Another Hot Take: Rules shouldn't be changed to accommodate spectators. How often do games last 18 innings, anyway? Not very.

The World Series (or any sports, for that matter) doesn't exist for the exclusive benefit and convenience of the east coast. The first two games in Toronto started at 8PM eastern time, which means lots of people on the west coast were just getting off work and unable to see the first couple of innings. Should the games be reduced to 7 innings because of that?; 10/28/25, 8:37 AM
Curious George said...: "Clyde said...
Hot Take: Major League Baseball needs to use the regular season extra-inning rules in all postseason games as well. What good is it to have an exciting game that goes 18 innings when nobody east of Phoenix is still awake to see the ending at 3 a.m. in the Eastern time zone? I'm on vacation, so I stayed up late, but I still tapped out after 14 innings at 1:40 a.m. EDT. They use the placed runner at second base in extra innings during the season for good reason. Both bullpens got shredded last night and very few people saw the ending. Not good."

I agree the regular season rule should be used but the bullpen take is not true. The Dodgers won in 18, their last run before that was in the 7th. Same with the Blue Jays. BJ's bullpen gave up 3 runs in 14 innings, Dodgers 1 in 14. That's not being shredded. That's quite good for both teams.; 10/28/25, 8:38 AM
Achilles said...: Kakistocracy said...

This is different to cricket for example where a 6 is unlikely to change a game or soccer where a goal is only a goal.

That is why baseball is a spectacle to be enjoyed and especially the post-season and World Series given the stakes similar to a knock out competition (like the World Cup) compared to any regular season game.

If you were less ignorant and stupid you would realize that a cricket or soccer fan would say exactly the same things about baseball in relation to cricket or soccer.

You just seem to revel in saying the dumbest things possible.; 10/28/25, 8:44 AM
Howard said...: It's the open-ended nature of baseball that makes it unique among team sports. There is nothing like a walk-off ending. Sure every once in awhile they're going to play 18 innings until 3:00 in the morning. Seems pretty stupid to change a rule for something that occurs once every thousand games. After saying that I checked with the Gemini AI and they decided to give it a giving it a liberal progressive slant by claiming that five games in the Major League baseball playoffs over the last 20 years went to 18 innings. That's quite a lot. I feel quite ashamed for not thinking for myself.; 10/28/25, 8:48 AM
Howard said...: The republicans in Congress sent an auto-pen study of the Biden administration to Pam Bondi in an effort to get all of the pardons and sentence commutations from the Biden administration signed by an auto pen invalidated.

I hope they invalidate all of those pardons and that goes to the supreme Court and we get to see truly the extent of the plenary powers inside and outside of separate administrations.; 10/28/25, 8:53 AM
Rusty said...: effinayright said...
"Funny, innit, how the proglodytes see the Constitution as a "living, breathing document", but the White House must be treated as complete and inalterable as Stonehenge."

I didn't even know there was an East Wing. And now that I know, I still don't care.; 10/28/25, 8:55 AM
Howard said...: He really sounding like a broken record these days Achilles. Anybody and everybody who disagrees with you is a Marxist leninist communist ignorant stupid retard who is evil and wants to destroy the world.

I think it's time to up your regular dosage of fish oil and consider getting a bit more fiber and fermented foods in your diet.; 10/28/25, 8:56 AM
Howard said...: Fuck meditation. If you really want to become more calm and to stay out of the flight or fight mode when everything is just hunky-dory, get yourself into a regular hypoxic training program. This forces you to decrease your sensitivity to carbon dioxide. The only way to do that is by relaxing into the panic.; 10/28/25, 9:01 AM
Howard said...: https://www.foxnews.com/us/ice-leadership-shakeup-exposes-growing-dhs-friction-over-deportation-tactics-priorities

The Homan camp wants to focus on the dangerous criminals while Noem wants to focus on all of the illegals including the ones that work hard take care of their families pay their bills pay taxes and are not criminals other than their immigration status.; 10/28/25, 9:06 AM
Curious George said...: "Howard said...
It's the open-ended nature of baseball that makes it unique among team sports. There is nothing like a walk-off ending. Sure every once in awhile they're going to play 18 innings until 3:00 in the morning. Seems pretty stupid to change a rule for something that occurs once every thousand games."

Dumb take. The new rule does not change the open ended nature of baseball. And it's not intended to eliminate just 18 inning games. It's 17, and 16, and 15, and 14, and 13 , and 12, and 11 inning games. They're just too long. And every sport does it. Soccer goes to penalty kicks, hockey goes to 3 on 3 short period and then penalty shots. Basketball goes to a shortened overtime session.; 10/28/25, 9:29 AM
Kakistocracy said...: All the people Trump calls "low-IQ" should publicly challenge him to a publicly-administered cognitive exam.; 10/28/25, 9:50 AM
Humperdink said...: Baseball lost me when Barry Bonds was with the Pirates. I don’t think I have watched a full inning since. Every now and I will watch a highlight of a baseball “brawl”, only to see. 2 minutes of square dancing.; 10/28/25, 9:59 AM
Kakistocracy said...: Donald Trump’s Truth Social to allow trading on election results ~ Bloomberg

Finally, a product where the odds are as dodgy as the platform.; 10/28/25, 10:05 AM
Gospace said...: https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/jamaica/middlesex-county/spanish-town/flat-bridge.html

You can see the water flowing over the bridge deck- it seems to still be there.; 10/28/25, 10:17 AM
Big Mike said...: @Gospace, the bridge doesn’t look completely intact to me.; 10/28/25, 10:36 AM
Rusty said...: Howard said...
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ice-leadership-shakeup-exposes-growing-dhs-friction-over-deportation-tactics-priorities

"The Homan camp wants to focus on the dangerous criminals while Noem wants to focus on all of the illegals including the ones that work hard take care of their families pay their bills pay taxes and are not criminals other than their immigration status."

So everyone trying to get here legally are a bunch of suckers for obeying our laws. Do I have that right?; 10/28/25, 10:55 AM
Jaq said...: As long as it's ok to change the rules so that the pitchers don't get tired and the fans don't get bored, why didn't we just put the ball on a tee for the pitchers instead of using the designated hitter?; 10/28/25, 11:29 AM
Original Mike said...: "Soccer goes to penalty kicks, hockey goes to 3 on 3 short period and then penalty shots."

Penalty shots are an abomination. The game is hockey, not penalty shots. If it's the playoffs, play the game, not some candy ass facsimile.

Did pro hockey change their rules? In the recent past, they didn't do shoot-outs in the playoffs. I don't watch pro hockey much. I'm a college hockey fan where, gratefully, it's still hockey 'till you drop in the playoffs. As God intended.; 10/28/25, 11:52 AM
Sweetie said...: A few years ago I saw Tom Waits at the Lagunitas Brewery in Petaluma, CA where he joined Mavis Staples on stage to sing the Staples Singers classic Respect Yourself. Pops Staples, in the original, sings the following:
'If you don't give a heck about the man
With the Bible in his hand, yo
Just get out the way
And let the gentleman do his thing'
That's the old way of the Left. The new way is to shoot the man with the bible in his hand if MSNBC says so.; 10/28/25, 12:00 PM
Rocco said...: effinayright said...
"Funny, innit, how the proglodytes see the Constitution as a "living, breathing document", but the White House must be treated as complete and inalterable as Stonehenge.”

Let’s hope they don’t confuse feet for inches on the design documents.; 10/28/25, 12:01 PM
Original Mike said...: In the regular season, I don't see anything wrong with ending games in a tie.; 10/28/25, 12:02 PM
Lazarus said...: Cricket matches can last for days. Baseball inherited the open-endedness from the Brits.; 10/28/25, 12:53 PM
Hassayamper said...: In the regular season, I don't see anything wrong with ending games in a tie.

Until my son got into soccer, I did not understand how fans of the game could be so wildly enthusiastic when their team plays to a 0-0 draw. But because of the way the league championships are structured, sometimes that is a massively favorable and memorable result, in much the same way that a 1-0 pitcher's duel near the end of the baseball season can be savored as the game of the year by a knowledgeable baseball fan.; 10/28/25, 12:53 PM
Original Mike said...: I think if an inferior team takes a superior team to a tie at the end of regulation, the inferior team deserves that tie. It shouldn't be ruined by the better team's snipers winning a shootout.; 10/28/25, 1:02 PM
Mason G said...: "Did pro hockey change their rules?"

There's none of this silly 3 on 3 and then maybe a shootout during the playoffs- they play as long as they need to in order to determine a winner. If it takes six periods, so be it.; 10/28/25, 2:45 PM
Mason G said...: "Of course they should. Stadium and TV spectators are the reason for baseball, all sports for that matter."

Pro sports have evolved into that, but it's not how the game originated.

"And the east coast does not get preferential treatment. During the regular season most games start at 7:15-7:30PM local time of the home team"

I'm talking about the playoffs, where west coast games start around 5-5:30. 7:30 would be more convenient for west coasters, so there must be *some* reason they don't start then. I wonder what that reason might be.; 10/28/25, 2:53 PM
Original Mike said...: Thank God, Mason, I was worried the NHL had gone pansy.

There's nothing more exciting than playoff overtimes in hockey. I attended the 2006 NCAA Midwest Regional in the Green Bay Resch Center. Final was Wisconsin vs Cornell. It went to three overtimes; players were literally crawling off the ice between shifts. Then, suddenly, Cornell commits a clearing error and it's over; just like that.

If it's the playoffs, you should have to play the game until somebody wins. Shootouts are not hockey.; 10/28/25, 2:55 PM
Mason G said...: "If it's the playoffs, you should have to play the game until somebody wins. Shootouts are not hockey."

Agreed. I can sort of understand the reason for them during the regular season, as teams often have back-to-back games in different cities and a long overtime game could easily screw up transportation plans. That doesn't happen in the playoffs, however.; 10/28/25, 3:13 PM
Iman said...: Howard’s making excuses and running interference for the Great Biden Bumfuzzled Blow… against America
that infiltrated the USA with a few million unvetted military-age men, just for starters.

No surprise here…; 10/28/25, 4:29 PM
hawkeyedjb said...: “…and spontaneously cheer for the team from Buffalo.”

Buffalo is the only professional football team in New York.; 10/28/25, 8:40 PM