Althouse: Sunrise — 6:34, 6:40, 6:44.

7 नवंबर 2025

Sunrise — 6:34, 6:40, 6:44.

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Curious George ने कहा…: The industrial backdrop always spoils these pics.; 7/11/25, 5:59 pm
Mark ने कहा…: I own MG&E stock, so those smokestacks look like quarterly dividend payments to my eye.

But in terms of photos, they do detract.; 7/11/25, 6:04 pm
MadisonMan ने कहा…: Move those stacks each year so that the sunrise pictures are less industrial!!! (I also own MGEE).; 7/11/25, 6:12 pm
tcrosse ने कहा…: If Althouse didn't want those stacks in the frame, she wouldn't have put them there. She must have a reason, which we are too obtuse to suss out.; 7/11/25, 6:23 pm
Derve ने कहा…: I'd like to know Professor how you see the war on trans people playing out in America. You continually post and clearly see what is happening. First we dehumanize and deny their existence and use language and documents to deny they exist. Next comes violence. Even you can not be stupid enough to deny that. Do we beat it out of them? Kill them or imprison those who refuse to go along? How does your husband (the thinking one in the house controlling the opinions) want to end this? Surely you have an opinion to share when you're not out observing nature on a leash there in Madison? Please do share. I just put $40 in your tip jar to ask this question. Don't be a princess... use your words and tell us how you'd like to see trans people eliminated? lol; 7/11/25, 6:24 pm
john mosby ने कहा…: Ah, it's like a poor man's Battersea Power Station.

Also, "smokestack lightning" is a line in a Cult song which could have been written about the Prof:

https://youtu.be/8g6h1vI4Xv0?si=bcPgIKV5k5koQBym

CC, JSM; 7/11/25, 6:27 pm
Derve ने कहा…: Or maybe she could just take these now boring pictures from a different angle or vantagepoint? Go for a walk someplace else to mix up the scenery shots? At least she gives the camera to meade, we get a totally different picture. Somebody is stuck in a rut and everyone who is like... wow, great photo. I'm breathless... only encourages her drudgery.

BORING. Done, you've done all the same shots again and again and again. Yes, nature changes daily. But you sure don't.

Take the advice here and mix up your game? It's not good to fall into a routine like that... even though the old couple who wrote The Graduate said that's the way to be. (You might look into a new haircut too. That old long white hair is not becoming, even if you've become an old lady who never leaves the house except to post the same dull pics every day like your idols in Grey Gardens, is it?)

For god's sake, try something different, even at your age? Rut rut rut... and I don't mean in a sexual way, prof. You've done these shots to death.; 7/11/25, 6:28 pm
Derve ने कहा…: I hope the stock market crashes and you all lose all your artificial money. lol. Share the fucking pain, boomers.; 7/11/25, 6:29 pm
Original Mike ने कहा…: Those smokestacks heat my house in the winter, so all you non-Madisonians can go fly a kite.

(yes, I heat with natural gas, but the furnace doesn't work without electricity.); 7/11/25, 6:32 pm
Inga ने कहा…: I have a very close family member that works for MG&E and makes a very good living working for them.; 7/11/25, 6:39 pm
Mason G ने कहा…: How often do you remind them that fossil fuels are killing the planet?; 7/11/25, 6:51 pm
Inga ने कहा…: https://www.mge.com/smart-energy/clean-energy/renewable-energy-programs/green-power-tomorrow

“Green Power Tomorrow
MGE's Green Power Tomorrow (GPT) program offers customers a flexible, affordable option for supporting regional renewable energy resources and offsetting their greenhouse gas emissions.

Approximately 10,000 MGE customers already support green power that's generated in our region. They help to:

Prevent carbon dioxide emissions equivalent to more than 11,000 homes' electricity use for one year.

Offset the greenhouse gas emissions equal to more than 180,000,000 miles driven by the average passenger vehicle.”; 7/11/25, 6:59 pm
Lazarus ने कहा…: "Outrageous," the British miniseries about the Mitford sisters, is hard to watch. I miss the old British series from the 70s and 80s which were underfunded, and therefore understated. Not trying to be trendy and fashionable -- not being able to afford all the splashy tricks -- meant paying more attention to the storyline and being able to think about it.; 7/11/25, 7:01 pm
narciso ने कहा…: https://x.com/officer_Lew/status/1986654965855646051; 7/11/25, 7:08 pm
Gospace ने कहा…: And as Inga fails to mention- not one watt of all that green power displaces a dedicated nuclear, hydro, or fossil fuel plants generating capacity. Those plants need to be spinning at alll times, ready to produce the entire electrical load on the system. Because the sun doesn't shine from sunset to sunrise, and doesn't penetrate rain or snow or fog. And the windspeed is too low or too high- those very expensive bird choppers don't contribute aany power to the grid. If you buy into one of these plans and think you're therefore consuming nothing but green power- you're delusional. Because often- that power isn't there, yet you're still using power.; 7/11/25, 7:08 pm
MadisonMan ने कहा…: We have solar panels on our roof, but they don't work at night. Also, we got a biggish tax credit for them -- and I firmly believe that such credits are a way for the Govt to screw over the poor for the benefit of the not poor including me. How many very poor people can afford solar panels on their roof?

Of course, I did take the tax credit, willingly. It covered about 25% or so of the installation. But it's a scam for giving money to the rich, I've no doubt.; 7/11/25, 7:10 pm
Mason G ने कहा…: "If you buy into one of these plans and think you're therefore consuming nothing but green power- you're delusional."

Democrats use power, too. I guess it makes sense to market shit to them, if you can depend on them buying it.; 7/11/25, 7:11 pm
Original Mike ने कहा…: "We have solar panels on our roof, but they don't work at night."

You should have popped for the premium model.; 7/11/25, 7:12 pm
Original Mike ने कहा…: I believe it is MG&E that is responsible for the rape of the Grant County landscape. God, what an eyesore. I feel for those poor people.; 7/11/25, 7:17 pm
Mason G ने कहा…: Not to worry, raping the landscape is just fine as long as your motives are pure.; 7/11/25, 7:19 pm
narciso ने कहा…: https://x.com/i/status/1986280585036505268; 7/11/25, 7:25 pm
narciso ने कहा…: So did they whitewash the commie sister rhetorical question; 7/11/25, 7:26 pm
narciso ने कहा…: If the soviets had invaded the uk would the bbc behave differently; 7/11/25, 7:27 pm
Mason G ने कहा…: "Of course, I did take the tax credit, willingly."

In the end, all the money the state has to spend is confiscated from taxpayers. Might as well get back as much of it as you can.; 7/11/25, 7:28 pm
narciso ने कहा…: Many series even the great reilly ace of spies with sam neil stilp had a soft touch about lenin not so much stalin, as if they were qualitatively different; 7/11/25, 7:31 pm
Original Mike ने कहा…: "And as Inga fails to mention- not one watt of all that green power displaces a dedicated nuclear, hydro, or fossil fuel plants generating capacity. Those plants need to be spinning at alll times, ready to produce the entire electrical load on the system."

It's horribly expensive to build out two parallel energy generation systems. But somehow, skyrocketing utility costs are Trump's fault.; 7/11/25, 7:35 pm
narciso ने कहा…: I hate when they make fictional but compelling characters in supposedly true events like the gold boyce who is the hunter of the gold thieves, is a composite; 7/11/25, 7:35 pm
john mosby ने कहा…: Laz: "I miss the old British series from the 70s and 80s which were underfunded, and therefore understated."

Yes, especially great to watch now on HD TV's. The cardboard sets, the soap-opera effect video indoors and cinematic film outdoors, the 70s hairstyles and makeup mixed with period costumes. Yet none of it distracts from the writing and acting. Old Doctor Who, OG Upstairs Downstairs, OG Forsyth Saga, Duchess of Duke Street, classic sitcoms.

I do like how today's British productions so often shoot on location, I guess to save money while solving the problem of having sets that stand up to HD inspection. The savings isn't usually plowed back into the writing, though. CC, JSM; 7/11/25, 7:37 pm
Mason G ने कहा…: "But somehow, skyrocketing utility costs are Trump's fault."

And somehow, "green" energy is cheaper than any other option.; 7/11/25, 7:39 pm
narciso ने कहा…: Yes there was an authenticity that you dont get with modern sets because thsre was heart in the productions instead of the shiny veneer of today; 7/11/25, 7:41 pm
narciso ने कहा…: Even the bond films of the 60s compared to the soul less contrivances of the last generation; 7/11/25, 7:44 pm
narciso ने कहा…: Amc tried to remake the ipcress files can you imagine; 7/11/25, 7:44 pm
john mosby ने कहा…: I did like the recent Black Bag. Basically a schlocky actioner, but not claiming to be anything else, and the high calibre of the actors (Fassbinder, Blanchett, Abela, etc) kept it up there. And it managed to sort of be a drawing-room drama at the same time with some interesting townhouse scenes.

And truth be told, a lot of the 70s-80s BBC classics were a bit schlocky, but Americans are suckers for the accents. CC, JSM; 7/11/25, 7:50 pm
narciso ने कहा…: https://www.sciencealert.com/massive-new-map-reveals-300000-km-of-ancient-roman-roads; 7/11/25, 7:52 pm
narciso ने कहा…: Yea that was a rare one, which wasnt properly marketed i think; 7/11/25, 7:53 pm
narciso ने कहा…: It may have been to the twist with brosnans character (which i wont give away; 7/11/25, 8:00 pm
narciso ने कहा…: Meanwhile disney has destroyed another franchise (well it was on life support); 7/11/25, 8:02 pm
john mosby ने कहा…: Oh yes, I forgot Brosnan was in it. That's how good he was! CC, JSM; 7/11/25, 8:06 pm
narciso ने कहा…: Its a subtle performance; 7/11/25, 8:11 pm
narciso ने कहा…: Fassbinder should have been bond instead of craig; 7/11/25, 8:15 pm
Original Mike ने कहा…: So, Brennan, Strzok, and Page have been subpoenaed over Russiagate.; 7/11/25, 8:19 pm
narciso ने कहा…: Their lips will be moving; 7/11/25, 8:21 pm
john mosby ने कहा…: Yes, he did well as the young Magneto, sharing the screen with McEvoy. Bond is basically a superhero, so the skills map over. CC, JSM; 7/11/25, 8:24 pm
Gospace ने कहा…: Don't know how reliable the info is- but the January 6 pipe bomber is being reported as Capitol Police officer Shauni Kerkhoff .

Capitol Police Officer? And they didn't know this on January 7th? If confirmed- every single person she testified against needs to file an immediate appeal for reversal of conviction.; 7/11/25, 8:31 pm
Rusty ने कहा…: Inga said...
"https://www.mge.com/smart-energy/clean-energy/renewable-energy-programs/green-power-tomorrow

“Green Power Tomorrow
MGE's Green Power Tomorrow (GPT) program offers customers a flexible, affordable option for supporting regional renewable energy resources and offsetting their greenhouse gas emissions.

Approximately 10,000 MGE customers already support green power that's generated in our region. They help to:

Prevent carbon dioxide emissions equivalent to more than 11,000 homes' electricity use for one year.

Offset the greenhouse gas emissions equal to more than 180,000,000 miles driven by the average passenger vehicle.”"

And you believe that, do you?; 7/11/25, 8:42 pm
Jupiter ने कहा…: Interesting documentary, about what the victors did to the German people after they had defeated the German army. Remind me who are the terrorists.; 7/11/25, 8:47 pm
William50 ने कहा…: Unforgotten with Nicola Walker is one of our all time favorites.; 7/11/25, 8:48 pm
Jupiter ने कहा…: "We have solar panels on our roof, but they don't work at night."
You need to get the lunar panels. Plus, there are also Jovian panels, which will enable you to generate a few microwatts from my emanations. If you base your calculations on the assumption that the equipment is free, then it all makes perfect economic sense.; 7/11/25, 8:52 pm
Jaq ने कहा…: Speaking of J6:

https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/11/07/you-dont-hate-them-nearly-enough/

Oh look, who would have thunk it? The BBC spliced together Trump's words stripped of context to make it look like he called for violence, and reported the spliced video on news broadcasts as an accurate reporting of his words.; 7/11/25, 8:55 pm
Jupiter ने कहा…: Based on a book which you can purchase through the Althouse Amazon link,
'Readers will witness for themselves the fate of German women as the rampaging Red Army raped and murdered its way across Europe--all females, from "eight to eighty" feared the dreaded words, "Frau Komm."'; 7/11/25, 8:57 pm
john mosby ने कहा…: Yes, Unforgotten has great actors, great writing, and uses some cool locations. I like the theme music too. CC, JSM; 7/11/25, 9:03 pm
Jupiter ने कहा…: The allies that Roosevelt and Churchill found for us had a way with women.; 7/11/25, 9:11 pm
Jupiter ने कहा…: Really! These guys were irresistible to German women! Once the German Army was out of the way.; 7/11/25, 9:15 pm
Inga ने कहा…: “'Readers will witness for themselves the fate of German women as the rampaging Red Army raped and murdered its way across Europe--all females, from "eight to eighty" feared the dreaded words, "Frau Komm."”

Yes that happened, one of the reasons I don’t understand why people like some here are Russophiles.; 7/11/25, 9:18 pm
Jupiter ने कहा…: Which is not altogether surprising. A lot of American women seem to be eager to welcome invaders. My theory is that many women like the idea of having a surplus of males over females, without concerning themselves too much about what kind of males. They know how to handle males, provided there are enough of them.; 7/11/25, 9:29 pm
Hassayamper ने कहा…: Interesting documentary, about what the victors did to the German people after they had defeated the German army.

Not all the victors. The Americans and British mostly behaved themselves, other than some unauthorized vengeance taken on particularly depraved SS units that had it coming. I'm sure there were a few rapes but they were certainly punished harshly and in no way authorized. The Red Army, by contrast, used the terror and suffering of helpless women and girls as a weapon of war. They are still doing it in Ukraine.

The book Red Storm on the Reich is worth reading and may have inspired the documentary you mentioned.; 7/11/25, 9:30 pm
Jupiter ने कहा…: "Yes that happened, one of the reasons I don’t understand why people like some here are Russophiles."
Why, Igna, they were our allies! The British empire, like all empires, took its allies where it could find -- or create -- them.
Ever look up Wendell Wilkie?; 7/11/25, 9:37 pm
Hassayamper ने कहा…: A lot of American women seem to be eager to welcome invaders.

Women have always adapted to the changing fortunes of war by pliantly shacking up with the victors. It's a sensible survival strategy.

But the way white leftist Western women are not just inviting some of the most savage and worthless men from the most backwards countries, but going to great lengths to transport them here, in full knowledge that rape and abuse of women will skyrocket-- well, that's a new thing under the sun.

I wish there were a way to ensure that they were the only ones inflicted with the ensuing violence and suffering.; 7/11/25, 9:37 pm
Christopher B ने कहा…: Gospace, interesting on the pipe bomber. Ace Of Spades HQ had a post yesterday dropping hints about a report The Blaze was supposed to have in the works that had no one named but did include details such as a woman who worked for a fedgov police or intelligence agency. However, the first post this morning said the story had been shelved.; 7/11/25, 9:38 pm
Jaq ने कहा…: It probably would have gone a lot better for Germany if they hadn't invaded Russia in the first place, and exposed themselves to the possibility of a counterattack, but propaganda can convince people to do a lot of stupid things. Make them seem like good ideas.; 7/11/25, 9:39 pm
Jupiter ने कहा…: "The Americans and British mostly behaved themselves ..."
Yeah, well. Except for Emmet Till's dad, who may not have been much of a soldier but was pretty good at raping Italian women. The Army eventually hung him for it.; 7/11/25, 9:39 pm
Jupiter ने कहा…: "It probably would have gone a lot better for Germany if they hadn't invaded Russia in the first place ..."
Well, I see the logic. Germany had pretty well defeated the French, and the British weren't really in a position to do much in response. But what you are missing is that Stalin meant what he said. He saw it as his mission to lead the forces of Communism to take over Europe, and eventually the world. His hope was to allow the capitalist nations to destroy each other, and then walk in and pick up the prize. But Hitler wasn't having it.; 7/11/25, 9:45 pm
Peachy ने कहा…: Stormy Daniels Today. Yiukes.
Remember - she "Blacked out" - oh so Hillary/"I cannot recall".; 7/11/25, 10:06 pm
Caroline ने कहा…: “Outrageous” is in my queue. Not sure I’m going to watch. I know a fair amount about the Mitford sisters and have always thought they would make a great mini series . But Netflix/prime will turn the story into a ridiculous feminine empowerment plot with lots of raw rutting, i.e., modern depraved sexual mores and feminist priorities that were unknown at the time. They keep doing this.
In my family, we love Ben mcintyre spy books, historical novels,. We have listened to “spies among us,” and “rogue heroes”. The series have scant resemblance to these wonderful tales. In both cases, they have created central female characters out of whole cloth, unimaginable in their time. I watch the episodes through gritted teeth, and it makes me doubt the veracity of the underlying story and characters, who are truly amazing. The women are fake in different ways, but fake fake fake.; 7/11/25, 10:06 pm
Kakistocracy ने कहा…: Something under discussed is the fact that White House renovations are currently being spearheaded by someone with famously bad interior design taste.

Is this a safe space to admit that the only thing I've been looking forward to in the Trump administration is Melania's bizarre, brutalist Christmases?; 7/11/25, 10:21 pm
Jim at ने कहा…: You need to get a life, dude.; 7/11/25, 11:55 pm
Yancey Ward ने कहा…: Raise your hands if you are surprised Inga would fall for that ruse from the electric utility.; 8/11/25, 12:37 am
Ann Althouse ने कहा…: "The industrial backdrop always spoils these pics."

Sideways rectangles and three thin lines when seen from across the lake. Why are you imagining what they would look like if you were over there right next to them and letting that bother you? We could relocate the Lake Superior so that there would be no shoreline visible on the other side of the lake but it seems like a drastic thing to do.; 8/11/25, 2:32 am
gadfly ने कहा…: Meet the Antichrist; 8/11/25, 2:53 am
Big Mike ने कहा…: Yes that happened, one of the reasons I don’t understand why people like some here are Russophiles.

Well aren’t. We hate Vlad Putin, but we hate you more since you’re the bigger threat to the safety and future prosperity of the USA.; 8/11/25, 4:18 am
Ann Althouse ने कहा…: "We could relocate the Lake Superior..."

That should read: We could relocate to Lake Superior....; 8/11/25, 5:16 am
Ann Althouse ने कहा…: @gadfly

excellent photograph; 8/11/25, 5:17 am
Hassayamper ने कहा…: Netflix/prime will turn the story into a ridiculous feminine empowerment plot with lots of raw rutting, i.e., modern depraved sexual mores and feminist priorities that were unknown at the time.

I know what you mean, and it is indeed tedious the way modern political agendas are shoehorned into old stories without any nuance or restraint. The narrative takes over the story and it can’t be watched without gritting your teeth, as you say.

That said, I find that it is more jarring when they do laughably unrealistic racial and tranny sermonizing than when they spout feminist pieties and animalistic sexual abandon of both the heterosexual and homosexual varieties. Those are more rooted in historical fact.

The sexual mores of the British upper classes were in fact more depraved than the popular image of the Victorian and Edwardian and interwar eras would suggest. There was a lot of traffic going between the bedrooms of those old country mansions. Raw rutting indeed.

As far as feminist propaganda goes, there were in fact recognizable feminists in those days, and the Mitford sisters ran the gamut from fascist to communist to monarchist. I’m sure they could find a proto-feminist among them without too much of a stretch.; 8/11/25, 5:28 am
Iman ने कहा…: “Well, I stand up next to a mountain
And I chop it down with the edge of my hand
Well I pick up all pieces and make an island
Might even raise a little sand”; 8/11/25, 6:22 am
boatbuilder ने कहा…: I recently read MacIntyre's "Double Cross." I strongly recommend it.
A miniseries based on the wild characters in that book would be great. Dusko Popov alone would fill several episodes.; 8/11/25, 7:47 am
boatbuilder ने कहा…: Inga--Consider what the words "help to" are doing in that corporate "Green Power" missive.; 8/11/25, 7:49 am
Jersey Fled ने कहा…: “ Inga--Consider what the words "help to" are doing in that corporate "Green Power" missive.”

Effort without effect is like plowing the sea.; 8/11/25, 8:09 am
Narr ने कहा…: Christopher Duffy, always worth reading, on a rare foray into recent history (Red Storm on the Reich).

Sad, but women and children always suffer in war. Good reason not to start them.; 8/11/25, 9:44 am
Lazarus ने कहा…: I got so sick of detective "George Gently" being a 2010s guy in a 1960s world and so tired of waiting for him to let loose and say or do something that wouldn't be regarded as politically correct by 21st century standards, but I suppose if the character weren't PC the old white male actor who plays him wouldn't have a job. "Grantchester" is similar.

O sir, we quarrel in print, by the book, as you have books for good manners. I will name you the degrees: the first, “the retort courteous”; the second, “the quip modest”; the third, “the reply churlish”; the fourth, “the reproof valiant”; the fifth, “the countercheck quarrelsome”; the sixth, “the lie with circumstance”; the seventh, “the lie direct.”

But nothing can top "the Lake Superior."; 8/11/25, 10:30 am
Kai Akker ने कहा…: Have to differ on the power station. The buildings have great visual appeal. Implied human presence too -- all good. Leave out all humanity and its activities and it's a boring calendar photo.; 8/11/25, 11:14 am
john mosby ने कहा…: Laz ref Gently and Grantchester being too woke: yes, and it's a double shame because just a little adjustment could make those shows both woke and historically accurate.

The world wars made a lot of Brits and Europeans abandon all conventional attitudes, just out of nihilism. Sexual morality of course topped the list. How can sex be obscene? 18-year-olds disemboweled on barbed wire and screaming all night - that's obscene. So there was already a sort of tolerance building for unconventional inclinations. Plus the Brits always had the bifurcation between the morality of the middle class and the morality of the classes above and below them.

Grantchester almost got it right with the gay priest living in a transparent closet. But of course the writers had to have him go thru all the stations of the postmodern gay cross: coming out to his mum, getting locked up for violating the about-to-be-repealed sodomy law, everyone in his friend group celebrating his gayness, etc. And of course the show had to have a bunch of nonwhite clerics, which certainly existed in the Anglican world at that time. But not all in one diocese.

I did like how Robson Green slapped a professor's widow to calm her down. But that was the only example ever of the sort of thing you're talking about. Probably as you say, because Robson wants to work again.

Gently is a hard man who has sympathy for abused women and for working people of any color. There were certainly a lot of men like that on police forces. Would probably be better writing if he called someone a slag or P*ki or a n-word or something, but then went out of his way to help them. But yeah, the actor wants to work on other shows. CC, JSM; 8/11/25, 1:00 pm
john mosby ने कहा…: The BBC got it right in Arthur & George, with Doc Martin playing A. Conan Doyle, in a real-life story where he got off a wrongly-convicted Anglo-Indian lawyer (the son of an Englishwoman and an Indian vicar). The truth of the story is made more dramatic by the fact that the Edaji family were the only Indians for miles around. Filling the bill with color-blind-casted actors would only have dulled the edge. CC, JSM; 8/11/25, 1:15 pm
Narr ने कहा…: Of all the shows mentioned, I may have seen only the one JSM mentions about Conan Doyle and the case of the innocent Indian.

It was pretty well done.; 8/11/25, 3:19 pm

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